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
  • Searching EBSCOhost
  • Styles of Citation
  • Modern Language Association

Education Full Text and Essay and General Literature

  • Click on the Help Button
  • Help Topics
  • Citing Articles

Facts.com and Issues and Controversies

  • Click on the ? symbol
  • How to Cite...

Grolier Online (DISCUS)

  • Encyclopedia Americana
  • Grolier Multimedia
  • New Book of Knowledge
  • Does not give MLA formatting but does give the elements needed for MLA citations at the end of each article.

Health and Wellness Resource Center

  • Click on ? Help
  • Citing Works from HWRC
  • Scroll to Examples of MLA Style for a Gale-supplied reference

Infotrac (DISCUS)

  • Click the database of your choice from the list
  • Click on Help-Search
  • Click on Managing the Information You Find
  • Click on Citing Thomson Gale Resources
  • Click on MLA Style

LexisNexis

 (Collegiate DISCUS)

 

  • Go to Support.lexisnexis.com/academic
  • Citing References
  • Citing References in LEXISNEXIS Academic

Literature Resource Center (Collegiate DISCUS)

  • Click on Help
  • Click on About the Literature Resource Center
  • Citing Documents in LRC. For more info:
  • Click on the link to How to Cite Infotrac and Galenet Sources
  • Click on the How to Cite link (on the left side of page)

ProQuest

  • Click on Help
  • Click on the Contents button
  • Scroll all the way down to Managing Articles
  • Click on Print Your Bibliography
  • Click on MLA

PsycArticles

  • Click on Help at the top right side of page
  • Click on Styles of Citation on the left side of page
  • Click on Modern Language Association

SC Newspapers (DISCUS)

  • Click on the Help tab at the top of the page
  • Click on the How to Cite Newsbank link of the left of the page

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
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