Library subscriptions—such as EBSCOhost and Academic Search Premier—provide access to huge databases of articles.
1 Author. List the last name first. End with a period. For variations, see models 2–5.
2 Article title. Enclose the title and any subtitle in quotation marks.
3 Periodical title. Italicize it. Exclude any initial A, An, or The.
4 Volume and issue / Date of publication. List the volume and issue number, if any; the date of publication, including the day (if given), month, and year, in that order; and a colon.
5 Page numbers. Give the inclusive page numbers. If an article has no page numbers, write n. pag.
6 Database name. Italicize the name of the database.
7 Medium. For an online database, use Web.
8 Date of access. Give the day, month, and year, then a period.
A citation for the article on p. 429 would look like this: