Quick Help: Citing articles in databases (MLA)

Quick Help: Citing articles in databases (MLA)

When citing sources accessed from a digital database, give as many of the following elements as you can find:

  1. Provide the author of the work. End with a period.
  2. Give the title of the article you are citing, in quotation marks. Put a period inside the closing quotation mark.
  3. Give the title of the periodical, italicized, and a comma.
  4. Give the volume (abbreviated vol.), a comma, the issue number (abbreviated no.), and a comma.
  5. Give the most complete date of publication you can find (day/month/year, month and year, or season and year). Abbreviate months except May, June, and July. End with a comma.
  6. Give the abbreviation p. or pp. and the print page numbers. End with a period.
  7. Give the name of the database, italicized, followed by a comma.
  8. Provide a permalink or DOI, if you can find one. If not, give the URL of the database home page. End with a period.