Look ahead!
Good research takes time. Begin with a clear understanding of the assignment. Know what documentation is required by your professor.
This web site is an excellent resource for citations:
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/works_cited
The library owns circulating and reference copies of several accepted term paper manuals which may help you:
MLA WORKS CITED FROM ELECTRONIC SOURCES
Example from
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html
31. Work from a subscription service
Libraries pay for access to databases through subscription services such as Lexis-Nexis
and ProQuest Direct. When you retrieve a work from a subscription service, give as much
of the following information as is available:
Publication information for the source (see items 20-26)
The name of the database, underlined (or italicized)
The name of the service, neither underlined nor in quotation marks
The name of the library where you retrieved the article
The date on which you retrieved the article
Here is a model for an article retrieved through Expanded Academic ASAP. The source
being cited is a scholarly article paginated by issue.
| Fitzgerald, Jill. "How Will Bilingual/ESL Programs in Literacy Change |
| | in the Next Millennium?" Reading Research Quarterly 35.4 |
| | (2000). Expanded Academic ASAP. InfoTrac. Salem State Coll. Lib., |
| | Salem, MA. 16 Feb. 2001. |
If you know the URL of the subscription service, add it at the end of the entry.
NOTE: When you access a work through a personal subscription service such as America
Online, give the information about the source, followed by the name of the service, the
date of access, and the keyword used to retrieve the source.
| Conniff, Richard. "The House That John Built." Smithsonian Feb. 2001. |
| | America Online. 11 Mar. 2001. Keyword: Smithsonian Magazine. |
GdS © January 31, 2003 Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX
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