MLA Citation Guide: Articles from Databases www.necc.mass.edu/library Updated 3/11 Basic Format Author’s Name. “Article Title.” Journal Title Vol#.Iss# Date of publication: Page numbers (if given). Database name. Web. Access date. Examples ‐ EBSCO: Rawe, Julie. “A Question of Honor.” Time 28 May 2007: 59‐60. Academic Search Premier. Web. 6 Aug. 2009. Dames, K. Matthew. “Understanding Plagiarism and How It Differs from Copyright Infringement.” Computers in Libraries 27.6 (June 2007): 25‐ 27. ERIC. Web. 6 Aug. 2009 . Examples – Gale InfoTrac: Carter, Stacy L., and Narissra Maria Punyanunt‐Carter. “Acceptability of Treatments for Plagiarism.” College Student Journal 41.2 (June 2007): 336‐341. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 6 Aug. 2009. Read, Brock. “Lawmakers Encourage Colleges to Use Technology to Curtail Campus Piracy.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 53.41 (June 2007). Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 6 Aug. 2009. CQ Researcher: Hansen, Brian. ʺCombating Plagiarism.ʺ CQ Researcher 13.32 (2003): 773‐796. CQ Researcher. Web. 12 Sept. 2009. LexisNexis: Brittain, Amy. “Universities Strike Back in Battle Over Illegal Downloads.” Christian Science Monitor 18 June 2007, sec. Features: 13. LexisNexis Academic. Web. 6 Aug. 2009. Online Encyclopedias and Dictionaries: ABC‐CLIO: ʺBill of Rights.ʺ American History. ABC‐CLIO, 2009. Web. 30 Sept. 2009. <http://www.americanhistory.abc‐clio.com>. Grolier Online: Ladd, David. “Copyright.” Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 2007. Web. 6 Aug. 2009. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) “Plagiarism.” Oxford English Dictionary Online. 2006. Web. 6 Aug. 2009 *** Important Change on URLs in MLA 7th Edition*** MLA 7th edition no longer requires the use of URLs in MLA citations. Because Web addresses are not static and documents sometimes appear in multiple places on the Web, MLA explains that most readers can find electronic sources via title or author searches using various Internet search engines. For those instructors who still wish to require the use of URLs, MLA suggests that the URL appear in angle brackets after the date of access. Give the complete web address including http. Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2008. <http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html>