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Purpose: This is a guide to documenting electronic resources, such as journal articles, used in your research. You need much of the same information as you would if citing a print source, with a few additional pieces of information. This is an interpretation of the MLA (Modern Language Association) style of citing electronic publications. For more information see the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Permanent Reserve LB2369.G53 2003) or http://sheboygan.uwc.edu/library/Inetcite.htm.
If you are paraphrasing, quoting or summarizing from an Internet source, print the page for future reference in case your instructor wants to verify its accuracy.
PERIODICAL ARTICLES from online full-text indexes (listed on the UWS Library home page at: http://sheboygan.uwc.edu/library/Articles.htm).
Formula: Author’s last name, first name. “Title of Article.” Name of Periodical. Date of publication: page numbers. Name of database used. Name of search service used. Name of library used. Date of access <http address of search system’s starting page, or the keyword assigned by the service>. Include as much of this information as you can find.
WILSONWEB
Woolley, Scott. “Steal This Movie.” Forbes.
18 Feb. 2002: 66-67. Reader’s
Guide Full Text.
WilsonWeb. UW- Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan, WI. 20 March 2002 <http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/>.
Vickers, Marcia. "Why Can't We Let Boys Be Boys." Business Week 26 May 2003: 84. Academic Search Elite. EBSCOhost. U.W.-Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan, WI. 31 July 2003 < http://search.epnet.com/>.
PROQUEST DIRECT
Fox, Justin.
“What in the World Happened to Economics?” Fortune 15 Mar. 1999:
90- 102. ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest
Direct. UW- Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan, WI. 2 Mar.
2000
<http://www.proquest.com>.
LEXIS-NEXIS
“Heart disease deaths among women may be linked to geography.” Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) 16 Feb. 2000, metro ed.: 3A. Academic Universe. LEXIS-NEXIS. UW-Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan, WI. 23 Feb. 2000 < http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe>
CQ RESEARCHER
Hansen, Brian. “Cyber-Predators.” The CQ Researcher 1 March 2002: 169-192. CQ Press. UW- Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan, WI. 20 March 2002 <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/>.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS RESOURCE CENTER
Citing from Viewpoints Essays excerpted from books:
Paul, Ron. “The Department of Homeland Security will make America less safe.”
National Security.
Ed. H.
Coltran. Opposing Viewpoints Series. Greenhaven Press, 2003. Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center. UW Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan, WI. 15 Sept.
2004
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/OVRC>.
Citing from Magazines and Newspapers
Boyce, Nell. “A hair club for mice?”
U.S. News & World Report.
13 Sept. 2004: 56. Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center. UW Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan, WI. 15 Sept.
2004
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/OVRC>.
Citing Journal Articles from Online Periodicals Indexes
Formula: Author’s last name, first name. “Title of the Article.” Title of the Journal Volume.Issue number (Year of publication): length of article. Name of Database used. Name of Search Service used. Name of Library. Date of access <http address of search service’s starting page>. Note: The length of a full-text article can be stated in paragraphs (abbreviated pars.), number of screens, or pages if they are numbered.
Littell, Franklin H. “The Holocaust and
the Christians.” Journal of Church and State
41.4 (1999): 72 pars. Humanities
Abstracts Full Text. WilsonWeb. UW- Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan, WI.
16 March 2000 <http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/>.
Kelly, Patrick J. “Victorian Vice.” Reviews in American History 26.4 (1998): 16 pars. Project Muse. UW-Sheboygan Library, Sheboygan, WI. 21 March 2002 <http://muse.jhu.edu/muse.html>.
Citing General World Wide Web Resources:
Formula: Author’s Name (if known). “Full title of the work.” Title of the Complete Work (if applicable). For a professional or personal page with no title, use a description such as Home Page. Document date (if known). Name of the Institution or Organization associated with the site. Date of access <full http address>.
Schabner, Dean. "Kids on the Couch: Doctors Say 1 in 10 Children Suffer Emotional, Mental Disorders." ABCNEWS.com Health & Living. 31 July 2003. Walt Disney Internet Group. 31 July. 2003 <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Living/child_psychology030731.html>.
All of the above examples are for use in a Bibliography or Works Cited list.
CITING ONLINE SOURCES IN THE TEXT. This method, known as parenthetical documentation in text, is used in place of footnotes or endnotes in a research paper. The purpose is to clearly lead the reader to specific sources listed in an alphabetically arranged works cited list or bibliography.
Examples: Place in parentheses the author's last name and the number of the paragraph(s) cited. (Littell par. 2).
If you have more than one title by the same author in your works-cited list, include a shortened version of the title as well. (Littell, Holocaust par. 2).
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