MLA Database Help

Many of the fulltext databases that we offer in the MTC Library offer assistance in MLA formatting. See the chart below for? help on the following databases.

Biography Resource Center (DISCUS)

  • The Source Citation at the bottom of the page will give you the elements you need to cite this resource, but you must format it to make sure it is in proper MLA style.

EBSCOhost databases, including

  • Academic Search Premier
  • Business Source Premier
  • CINAHL
  • MLA, etc.
  • Click on the Help link at the top right hand corner
  • Click on Citation Styles
  • MLA Style

Facts on File

  • Issues & Controversies
  • World News Digest

Citation information is given at the bottom of each article

Health and Wellness Resource Center

  • Click on www.gale.cengage.com
  • Click on the Site Map at top of page
  • Click on Citing InfoTrac and GaleNet Sources 

History Resource Center

Use the Source Citation at the end of the article. It will give you the info needed for an MLA citation but not necessarily in the proper MLA citation style.

Infotrac (DISCUS) 
  including 
  Literature Resource Center
  Opposing Viewpoints

  but NOT including 
  Scribner Writers Series

  • If available, use the Source Citation at end of article 
  • If no Source Citation, click on the database of your choice from the list 
  • For all databases, click on ?Help 
  • Click on Managing the Information You Find (this step is omitted in some databases)
  • Click on Citing Gale Resources
  • Click on Examples of MLA Style 

ProQuest 

  • Career & Technical
  • Criminal Justice
  • Nursing & Allied Health
     
  • Click on Help
  • Click on the Contents button
  • Scroll all the way down to Managing Articles
  • Click on Print Your Bibliography
  • Click on MLA

Scribner Writers Series (DISCUS)

  • Click on Help on left side of page
  • Click on Citing the Scribner Writers Series (Caution: not necessarily MLA format given)

SIRS Knowledge Source (DISCUS)

  • Click on How to Cite near the top of the page

WilsonWeb databases(all)

  • Business Full Text
  • Education Full Text
  • Gen. Science Full Text
  • Humanities Full Text
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega
  • Readers' Guide Full Text
  • Social Sciences Full Text

 
  • Click on the Help link near the top of the page
  • Help Topics
  • Citing articles
  • How to cite articles
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