Articles from Databases

Library subscriptions—such as EBSCOhost and Academic Search Premier—provide access to huge databases of articles.

Author. List the last name first. End with a period. For variations, see models 2–6.

Article title. Enclose the title and any subtitle in quotation marks; capitalize all major words. Place a period inside the closing quotation mark.

Periodical title. Italicize it. Exclude any initial A, An, or The. End with a comma.

Volume and issue / Date of publication. Give the volume number, abbreviated vol., and the issue number, abbreviated no., if the periodical provides them. List the day (if given), month (abbreviated except for May, June, and July), and year (or season and year) of publication. Put commas after the volume, issue, and date.

Page numbers. Give the abbreviation p. (for “page”) or pp. (for “pages”) and the inclusive page numbers. If the article skips pages, put the first page number and a plus sign. End with a period.

Database name. Italicize the name of the database. End with a comma.

Location. Give the DOI or other permalink, if available. If not, give the URL for the home page of the database.

A citation for the article in the database screen shot below would look like this: