Articles from Databases

MLA SOURCE MAP: Articles from Databases

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:

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EBSCOhost