MLA Documentation

Preparing a

Works Cited Page

Work from a Library or Subscription Service

SOME EXAMPLES

Academic Search Premiere Lexis-Nexis EBSCO InfoTrac

What to include: Author (if known) Title of article (in quotations marks) Source of article (magazine, journal title, underlined

or italics) Date of publication Name of database (underlined) Name of the service Name of the library or system (with city and state) Date of access URL of site’s search page

Electronic Citations

Article accessed through a library online database or subscription service

Menand, Lois. “Is College Too Late to learn to Write?” New Yorker 11Sept. 2002:92. Academic Universe. Lexis-Nexis. <http://www.lexis-nexis.com/>.

Electronic Citations

Article accessed through a library online database or subscription service

Koretz, Gene. “Economic Trends: Uh-Oh Warm Water.” Business Week 21 July 1997:22. Electric Lib. Sam Barlow High School Lib., Gresham, OR. 17 Oct.

1997 <http://www.elibrary.com>.

Electronic Citations

Article accessed through a library online database or subscription service

“Cooling Trend in Antartica.” Futurist May-June 2002: 15. Academic Search

Premiere. EBSCO. UTA Lib. 22 May 2002 <http://www.epnet.com/>.