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Periodical ArticlesPrintable MLA style guide for print sources(PDF) Printable MLA style guide for online sources(PDF) · Magazine article from a commercial supplier Author. AArticle Title.@ Periodical Titleday mon. year: paging or indicator of length. Database Name. Information supplier. Access date <Database supplier homepage URL> (last is optional) If there is no author, begin with AArticle Title.@ Example: Jackson, David S. and Nancy Harbert. “Medicine: Is there a Doctor Death Jr. in the House?” Time 6 Sep.1999: 20. Expanded Academic ASAP. Infotrac. Lynchburg College Lib., LynchburgVA. 22 Sep.1999. · Scholarly journal article from commercial supplier: Author. “Article title.”Journal titlevol.issue (year): paging. Database Name. Database Supplier. Library name, Library location. Access date <Database supplier homepage URL> (last is optional) Example: Vail, D. Angus. “The outside of a thigh is half a back: negotiating the canvas among fine art tattoo collectors.”Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society 28.4 (1999): 261-278. Expanded Academic Index.Infotrac. Lynchburg College Lib., Lynchburg, VA. 3 Nov. 1999 <http://www.infotrac.galegroup.com>. Homepages· A complete scholarly project or information database Author. Homepage Title. (If no title then the word Homepage). Ed. Editor’s firstname last name. Date [last update or copyright date]. Information supplier. Access date <URL>. If there is no author, begin with AHomepage Title.@ Example: Electronic Text Center. Ed. David Seaman. 1999. U. of Virginia. 5 Nov. 1999 <<>http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/>.· A document within a scholarly project or information database Author “Document Title”Project or Database Title. Date [last update or copyright date]. Information supplier (if known). Access date <URL>. Example: “Some basics about Waste minimization, the National Plan, and PBT chemicals.” Waste Minimization National Plan. 12 Oct. 1998. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste. 4 Nov.1999 <http://www.epa.gov/wastemin/basics.htm>. A Part of a Work, such as an article from an encyclopedia: Author APart title.@ Source. Edition statement (if given). Copyright date or date of last update. Source of electronic text (if available). Access date <URL>. If there is no author, begin with APart title.@ Example: APugwash Conference.@ Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 1994-1997. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 4 Nov. 1999 <http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/g?DocF=macro/ 5004/75/5.html>. A Newspaper Article · Article from newspaper’s own web page: Author. AArticle Title/Headline.@ Newspaper Title. Day mon. year, Edition (if given): paging or indicator of length. Access date <URL>. If there is no author, begin with AArticle Title.@ Example: “Argentina Votes” The Washington Post.27 Oct. 1999: A30. 4 Nov. 1999 <http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/Wplate/1999-10/27/0001-102799-idx.html>. · Article accessed through online database supplier: Author. AArticle Title.@ Newspaper Title.Day mon. year, Edition (if given): paging or indicator of length. Database. Database supplier. Library. Access date <Database supplier homepage URL>. (last is optional) Example: August, Marilyn. “23,000 Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Could Be Cloned. 11-Foot Adult Male Found Well Preserved.” The New Orleans Times-Picayune. 23 Oct. 1999: A14. Dow Jones Interactive. Lynchburg College Lib., Lynchburg VA. 3 Nov. 1999. The citation formats in this handout are based on The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.5th. ed. [REF LB2369 .G53 1999 c.1] and the MLA Online Style Guide 9 Sep.1998 Please refer to these for additional information and types of citations. There are also a number of online guides to citing electronic sources available through the WWW Resources link on the Library’s home pages. For more information about the Library or its services, contact Chris Millson-Martula at millsonmartula@lynchburg.edu. |
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