These guidelines follow the general style for MLA citations. MLA, however, does not give rules for citing an entire printed index or an entire subscription database, so some slight adaptations have been made. In MLA format, titles are in italics. The form of MLA-style citation for a periodical index* in printed form is:
Title of Index. Place of Publication: Publisher, date- . Medium.
The date with the dash and space after it is an "open entry," meaning that the abstract was first published on a certain date and is still being published at regular intervals. For the present purpose, you can cite the "beginning" year as either the first year of publication, or the first year you would actually use. Examples of citations for periodical indexes* in print are:
Sociological Abstracts. San Diego: Sociological Abstracts, 1953- . Print.
Readers' Guide To Periodical Literature. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1900- . Print.
New York Times Index. New York: New York Times, 1999- . Print.
The form of MLA-style citation for online periodical index* database is:
Title of Periodical Database. Medium. Date accessed by you.
Examples of a citation for online periodical indexes* database are:
NCJRS Abstracts Database. Web. 12 Sep. 2009
Health Reference Center Academic. Web. 29 Aug. 2009.
Sources: Based on MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
More information on citing resources using MLA style can be found at The OWL at Purdue - MLA Formatting and Style Guide.
These guidelines follow the general style for APA citations. APA, however, does not give rules for citing an entire printed index or an entire subscription database, so slight adaptations have been made. In APA format, titles are italicized. The form of APA-style citation for a periodical index* database in printed form is:
Title. (date- ). Place of publication: publisher.
The date with the dash and space after it is an "open entry," meaning that the abstract was first published on a certain date and is still being published at regular intervals. For the present purpose, you can cite the "beginning" year as the first year you would use. Examples of APA-style citation for a periodical index* database in printed form are:
Sociological abstracts. (1953- ). San Diego: Sociological
Abstracts.
Readers' guide to periodical literature. (1900- ). New York: H.W. Wilson.
New York Times index. (1999- ). New York: New York Times.
The form of citation for online periodical index* database is:
Title. Retrieved from [URL]
The URLs on our main database page that start with http://proxy.chemeketa.edu are custom addresses that route the user through our proxy server to the database. They are not the "real" URLs for the database. They can be used if your instructor agrees; the URLs you see when you use the database are customized to the user, for the most part. A list of actual, generic URLs for the library's database is available.
An example of a citation for an online periodical index* database is:
NCJRS Abstracts Database. Retrieved from
http://abstractsdb.ncjrs.org/
Academic OneFile. Retrieved from
http://infotrac.galegroup.com
Sources: Based on
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the
American Psychological Association (6th ed). Washington, D.C.:
Author. ·See also http://www.apastyle.org/index.html.
More information on citing resources using APA style can be found at APA Reference Page.
*an index for articles in magazines, newspapers, or journals
Updated: 14 September 2008
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