Citing Magazine Articles
Citing a Magazine Article found in an Article Database using MLA (9th edition)
Imagine that you have used information from this article found in the COA Library's online database called Academic Search Complete:
For articles from online article databases, MLA tells you to include:
Author's Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article.” Name of Magazine, volume, issue no., publication date, page(s) p. or pp. Name of Database, Location (DOI or URL). access date (Accessed day month year).
The article databases offer help citing sources but frequently their examples have errors and so it is important to check the citation to make sure it exactly follows the rules of MLA format (see the Library's MLA Handout Links to an external site. for help with this).
So you write the following MLA citation:
Kamienski, Mary. "Gout: Not Just For the Rich and Famous! Everyman's disease." Orthopaedic Nursing, vol. 22, no. 1, Jan-Feb 2003, pp. 16-17. Academic Search Complete, expandedacdemic/file345664. Accessed 3 June 2019.
Citing a Magazine Article found in an article database using APA (7th edition)
If your paper requires the use of APA citation style, here is how you would cite the same article found in the COA Library's online database called Academic Search Complete:
For articles from online article databases, APA tells you to include:
Author/Editor's Last name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Date of Publication). Article Title. Periodical Title, Volume(Issue), Page Numbers. URL.
The article databases offer help citing sources but frequently their examples have errors and so it is important to check the citation to make sure it exactly follows the rules of APA format (see the Library's APA Handout Links to an external site. for help with this).
So you write the following APA citation:
Kamienski, M. (Jan-Feb 2003). Gout: not just for the rich and famous! Everyman's disease. Orthopaedic Nursing, 22(1), 16-17. http://expandedacdemic/file345664.