Example 2: Scholarly
journal articles from a
library database |
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There are two kinds of scholarly journals: those with continuous
pagination throughout the year and those that page each issue separately.
Look at the page numbers in the later issues to tell the difference.
Scholarly journals with continuous pagination will have page numbers
in the late hundreds and even thousands as the year progresses,
while journals that page each issue separately, will have low numbered
pages in the late issues. You will notice that most scholarly journals
have continuous pagination. The MLA format for both of them is very
similar. The only difference is:
- for scholarly journals with continuous pagination, give just
the volume number in your citation
- for scholarly journals with separate pages for each issue, give
the volume number followed by a period and the issue number in
your citation.
A. Scholarly Journal with Continuous Pagination
This article was located November 6, 2003 in Literature Resource
Center, a Gale database. The important elements you will need
for the citation have been identified. The model template is color-coded
to match the example of what the citation will look like when it
is filled in using the above information and the information in
the record. To get the range of pages, add (15) to 348; thus the
pages are 348-363. As mentioned earlier, the library information
and the URL will be: UMUC's Information and Library Services, http://www.umuc.edu/library/database.
Library Database Record:
Template: (color-coded to match the examples):
Author's
Last name, First name.
"Article Title."
Journal Title
volume
(year) : pages. Database.
Database Publisher (if known).
Library.
Access date
<URL of database publisher's home page>.
Using an MLA style citation example as a template, you would fill
in the information as shown below.
Template Filled in:
Smith,
Craig.
"Across the Widest Gulf: Nonhuman Subjectivity
in
Virginia Woolf's Flush."
Twentieth Century Literature
48
(2002) : 348-63. Literature
Resource Center. Gale.
U of MD U Coll Information and Lib. Services. 5 Nov. 2003
<http://www. gale.com>.
If this were a print source, you would omit the database and library information.
Print Source:
Smith,
Craig.
"Across the Widest Gulf: Nonhuman Subjectivity
in
Virginia Woolf's Flush."
Twentieth Century Literature
48
(2002) : 348-63.
B. Scholarly Journal with Separate Pages
for Each Issue:
You accessed the following article in the
library database Factiva on November 12, 2003. The important
elements you will need for the citation have been identified. The
blank template is color-coded to match the example of what the citation
will look like when it is filled in using the above information
and the information in the record. As mentioned earlier, the library
information and the URL will be: UMUC's Information and Library
Services, http://www.umuc.edu/library/database.
Library Database Record:
Template: (color-coded to match the examples):
Author's
Last name, First name.
"Article Title."
Journal Title
volume.issue
(year) : pages. Database.
Database Publisher (if
known). Library.
Access date <URL of database publisher's home
page>.
Using an MLA style citation example as a template, you would fill
in the information as shown below.
Template Filled In:
Ryan,
Karen .
"The Devil You Know: Postmodern Reconsiderations of Stalin."
Mosaic
36.3 (2003) : 87+.
Factiva Dow
Jones and Reuters.
U of MD U Coll Information and Lib. Services.
5 Nov. 2003
<http://global.factiva.com>.
If this were
a print or PDF source, your citation would omit the electronic resource
information:
Ryan,
Karen .
"The Devil You Know: Postmodern Reconsiderations of Stalin."
Mosaic
36.3 (2003) : 87+.
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