Citations - Statewide: Articles from Database and Print

Source from a Database

**Most library databases have the citation provided.

**When DOI (digital object identifier) is available, you should use it at end of entry as noted instead of where the article was retrieved from.

**If no DOI is available, do not include the URL or any database information in your citation.  Cite the source as if you were looking at the print version.

Format:
(Author last name, Date)

Example: 
(Bender, 2006)

Formats:

With DOI: 

Author last name, First initial. Middle initial. (Year, Month, Day). Title of article.  Title of Periodical, Volume number (issue number), Pages. DOI

No DOI: 

Author last name, First initial. Middle initial. (Year, Month, Day). Title of article.  Title of Periodical, Volume number (issue number), Pages.

Examples:

With DOI:

Kroon, L. (2007, September 15). Drug interactions with smoking. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 64 (18), 1917-1921. https://doi.org/10.2146/ajhp060414

No DOI: 

Vissing, Y.  (2003, December). The yellow school bus project:  Helping homeless students get ready for school.  Phi Delta Kappan, 85 (4), 321-323.  

Format:
(Author last name, Date, Page Number)

Example: 
(Bender, 2006, p. 39)

Format:

Author last name, First initial. Middle initial. (Year, Month, Day). Title of article.  Title of Magazine, Volume number, Pages.  

Note:  If no volume number is available, use p. or pp. before page numbers.

Example:

Bender, M. (2006, December). 2-minute winter warm-ups: Wake up your hibernating muscles, starting now.  Health, 20, 38-40.