Citing References

Databases:

Author (if author is given); Title of Article in quotation marks; Title of Source, underlined (magazine, journal, newspaper); Date (if a journal, record first the volume and issue, then the date in parenthesis); Pagination of original (if available); Name of Database, underlined, followed by name of service, vendor or publisher; date of access; URL: <Citing Reference>
Examples:
NewsBank NewsFile
    Newspaper Article 
    "How One Teen Almost got Her Mother Deported."  Christian Science Monitor .  7 July 1998: 1.
         NewsBank Newsfile. 15 Jan. 2000  <http://infoweb.newsbank.com/>.  
 
 
SIRS Knowledge Source
    Magazine Article
        Munz, rainer.  "The Migrants."  The Earth Times.  15 Feb. 1996: 9-15.  SIRS Researcher.  SIRS
             Mandarin. 22 Feb. 2000  <http://sks.sirs.com/>.                   
 
 
Electric Library
    Newspaper Article
        Clivera, Mercedes.  "Dallas, Bilingual Education to be in National Spotlight."  The Dallas Morning News.
            21 Jan. 1999: 26A.  Electric Library  < http://www.elibrary.com/s/edumark>.
 
 
A Document within a Scholarly Project or Information Database
 
    "This Day in History: August 20."  The History Channel Online.  2000. History Channel. 19 June 2000
         <http://historychannel.com/thisday/today/00619.html>.
 
 
A Work from an Online Service without a URL but with a keyword.
 
    "Table Tennis."  Compton's Encyclopedia Online.  Vers. 2.0..1997.  America Online. 4 July
        1998.  Keyword; Compton's.
 
 
A Work from an Online Service:  no URL, but User Follows a Series of Topic Labels.
 
    "Cloning."  Biotech's Life and Science Dictionary."  30 June 1998.  Indian U.  America Online.  4 July 1998.
         Path;  Research and Learning; Science; Biology; Biotechnology Dictionary.
 
 
 
Citing from Websites:
 
 
Structure:

Author (if author is given); Title of Website; Date of Publication (if given or most recent update, if given); Pagination; Date of Access; Web Address (include the entire web address for the material which you actually use within the website).
 
Example:
 
    Dawes, James.  James Dawe's Jane Austen Page.  8 Aug.  2000.  16 Oct. 2000 
        <http://www.jamesdawe.com/austen.html>.
 
If you need further assistance with citations or writing the research paper, check the websites below.
 
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        http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm  
        
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