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Example 3:  Popular magazine article from a
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The screen below shows a citation found in Academic Search Premier, an EBSCOHOST database, on March 12, 2002. 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. 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:

Popular magazine

Model template (color-coded to match the image and examples):

Author's Last name, First name. "Article Title." Magazine Title

day (if given) month year: pages. Database. Vendor

(if known). Library. Access date <http://www.umuc.edu/

library/database>.

Citation filled in:

Kirtley, Jane. "Hiding Behind National Security." American

Journalism Review Jan.-Feb. 2002: 62. Academic Search

Premier. EBSCOHOST. UMUC's Information and Library

Services. 12 Mar. 2002 <http://www.umuc.edu/

library/database>.

If you had used a print copy of this article that you obtained through interlibrary loan or in a library, your citation would omit the electronic resources information:

Kirtley, Jane. "Hiding Behind National Security." American

Journalism Review Jan.-Feb. 2002: 62.

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