Citation Examples

Many databases provide guidelines for citing their resources in their Help files.

Specific Examples:

• EBSCOhost files
• Moody's Company Data CD-ROM
• Morningstar Mutual Funds CD-ROM
• Citing ERIC Documents 
• FirstSearch Databases
  • Citing "Full-Text" Articles from FirstSearch Electronic Databases (Central Michigan Univ)
• Gale Group Databases
  • How to Cite InfoTrac and GaleNet Sources (Gale Group)
• ProQuest Databases
  • Select "?Help" in the upper right corner of a database webpage, then Search Help for the keyword "citing" to access the guidelines for citing ProQuest in MLA or APA format.
• CIS/Lexis-Nexis Universe Databases
  • Academic Universe & Congressional Universe include citation examples in the help files.
• Citing Government Information

Citation Style Guides:

The Reference Desk in the UCF Library has various citation style guides, including the MLA Handbook (undergraduates), MLA Style Manual (graduates) and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).  Some of the resources available on the Web include:

• Bibliography Styles Handbook - APA format (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Bibliography Styles Handbook - MLA format (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Citing Electronic Resources (Internet Public Library)
• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA)
• MLA Style (MLA)
• Sources (Dartmouth) identifies when & how to cite sources and provides examples of plagiarism.
• MLA Bibliographic Format provides an interactive form for creating citations for a book, e-mail message, online discussion list or forum posting, CD-ROM, interview, magazine article, online magazine article, newspaper article, online newspaper article, or Web pages.

Verification of bibliographic information:

If you need to verify bibliographic information about materials found in the UCF Library (other than specific periodical articles), check the Long View record for the item in the UCF Library catalog on WebLUIS.  The records for specific periodical articles in various index/abstract databases should provide the necessary bibliographic description.  Other resources for verifying bibliographic information include:

• Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory (WebLUIS database) is a unique, current, comprehensive and continuously updated source of information on selected periodicals and serials published in the United States and throughout the world.
• Books in Print/Out of Print (WebLUIS database) provides complete, publisher­verified information on all U.S. books in print. Includes more than 900,000 new or revised records each year and covers scholarly, technical, popular, adult, juvenile, and reprint titles.
• WorldCat (FirstSearch database) - the world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 40 million bibliographic records representing 370 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.
• CD-ROMS in Print - available in the UCF Reference Collection at REF Z 699.22.C47

Last modified: February 19, 2002
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