In another part of this tutorial, you learned that many traditional library resources such as magazine and journal articles may be located and printed from web-based library databases in full-text, such as InfoTrac and FirstSearch. You may never touch the original journals where your useful articles are found because full-text web-based databases are available.
To avoid plagiarism, however,
you must learn to create citations for these types of articles so
they also may be included in your list of works cited for your research.
Again, citations must include certain prescribed information about your
source and be in a specific order with specific punctuation. In a twist
on other types of citations you're used to creating, full-text resource
citations must include a reference to the original source that published
the article as well as to the Web-based database from which you obtained
the article.
| Be aware that this information applies only to the instances where you have obtained the entire article from the database, which is what is meant by "full-text". It does not pertain to those instances where the library databases have merely identified the article, and you have had to retrieve it yourself in print from the shelf or through Interlibrary Loan. |
InfoTrac
and Literature Resource Center
(both Gale databases)
How
to Cite InfoTrac and GaleNet Sources is an entire Web page devoted
to instructions on how to cite an article from their database using MLA
style. Below are some examples:
| Davidson, Paul. "Globalization."
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
24 (2002): 475+. Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale Group Databases. College of Staten Island Lib., NY. 15 Apr. 2002. <http://www.infotrac.galegroup.com>. |
Note that the last two lines refer to
- Name of the library where service was accessed
- Name of the town/city where service was accessed
- Date of Access
- URL of the service
Concerning citing
articles from InfoTrac and GaleNet using the APA style, InfoTrac has a
Web page which includes guidance for APA. To get to it from the opening
search screen, click on "Help - Search" in the left blue column. On the
next screen, click on "Help Index" in the left blue column. Under the heading
in the lower right of the page entitled "What do you need?", click on "How
do I cite an article?" This is one example they list:
| Gremillion,
Kristen J. (1996). Early agricultural diet in North America:
evidence from two Kentucky rockshelters. American Antiquity, 61(3), 520. Retrieved March 17, 2002, from InfoTrac Web Expanded Academic ASAP. |
Other
Library Databases
Articles
found in full-text in FirstSearch or ScienceDirect or any other library
database would be similarly cited in MLA or APA. For
information on citing articles specifically from these databases, go to
the official MLA and APA sites for instructions and examples:
The MLA Web site shows examples for "Work from a Subscription Service", such as FirstSearch (Electric Library is used in the example, but it is similar to FirstSearch) and for "Article in a Reference Database", such as Britannica Online, which we subscribe to.
At the APA
Web site, see "Internet
Articles Based on a Print Source" and their general "Electronic
References" section.
Continue to this next link to complete
the Medford Library
Web Tutorial.
