MLA citations

English 1301

MLA Exercise #2

Using Electronic Resources: the Library Catalog and Online Databases

Use the information provided to locate the source. Once you find the source, provide a citation for it in the proper MLA format (that is, as the source would appear in a Works Cited listing).

Before starting, take note:

· The citations provided in the Library Catalog and the Online Databases are often outdated, incomplete, or simply incorrect. DO NOT copy and paste info that you find. Build your own citation, following the guides and models.

· Be sure to follow the new 8th edition of the MLA Handbook. The Purdue OWL provides a very detailed and helpful guide to MLA format: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_style_introduction.html

· Newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals are often referred to as periodicals in reference guides, such as the Purdue OWL.

· Volume and issue information is only given in citations for scholarly journals, not for newspapers or magazines; for those, you simply give the date of publication.

· All electronic items (those freely online or through a subscription database) should be followed by the date that you accessed the materials (“Accessed [day month year]”).

· For the items below in EBSCO databases, please also use this generic URL: www.ebscohost.com.

· For the items below in EBSCO databases, you must list both the name of the database used and the publisher of the database (unfortunately, the Purdue OWL does not clarify this). Here is an example of how that looks in a complete citation:

Williams, Robert. “The Politics of Transphobia.” The Journal of American Culture, vol. 26, no. 2, 2017, pp. 126-30. Social Sciences Full Text, EBSCOhost, www.ebscohost.com. Accessed 2 June 2018.

Using the DCCCD Library Catalog (https://dcccd.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/), find the following:

1. A book about American consumer culture, published in 2011 and written by David Buckingham.

2. A collection of essays about The Simpsons and economics. The book was edited by Joshua C. Hall.

3. A book about heterosexuality, written by Hanne Blank.

4. An edited collection of essays entitled Water Matters.

Using the Online Databases (http://libguides.dcccd.edu/az.php) listed below and their respective search engine features, find the following sources. These databases are all published by EBSCO, so you can use this generic URL for each item: www.ebscohost.com

5. In the Academic Search Complete database, find an article discussing the issue of same-sex marriage, written by Andrew Sullivan and published in Newsweek.

6. In the MasterFILE Premier database, find an essay about marijuana farming, written by Josh Harkinson and published in 2014.

7. In the Humanities Full Text database, find an academic essay on The Simpsons, which was published in The Journal of Popular Culture and written by Jessamyn Neuhaus.

8. In the Newspaper Source database, find an article discussing the treatment of diabetes, written by Ian Urbina and published in January 2006.

9. In the Academic Search Complete database, find an article about voluntary euthanasia; one of the authors of this co-authored article is Byron Stoyles.

10. In the Education Full Text database, locate an article discussing the note-taking habits of students enrolled in online classes, published in Quarterly Review of Distance Education.