Citing Books
Important Notes:
These web-based guidelines have been designed and developed as a service to JCC students, faculty, and staff. Address comments and suggestions regarding this site to Joanna Chrzanowski.
These citations represent only the most frequently used sources. THEY ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE COMPLETE! For complete documentation style, see MLA Handbook, the most recent addition. For more comprehensive examples, the English Department recommends you use The Concise Wadsworth Handbook, or another recent edition of a handbook.
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Updated 2008
Database Name, Publisher, Database url
For all EBSCO databases listed below the publisher and database
url are the same.
Follow this example for Academic Search Premier:
Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. http://search.ebscohost.com
Academic Search Premier. Business Source Premier. CINAHL Plus with Full Text. EBSCO Animals. General Science Collection. Education Research Complete. Funk and Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia. Health Source – Consumer Edition. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition. MasterFile Premier. Medline. Military and Government Collection. Newspaper Source. Primary Search. Professional Development Collection. PsycArticles. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Regional Business News. Religion and Philosophy Collection. The Serials Directory. Science Reference Center. SocINDEX with Full Text. TopicSearch. World History Collection.
For all other JCC databases
America’s Newspapers. NewsBank,
Inc.. http://infoweb.newsbank.com
American National Biography Online. Oxford.
http://www.anb.org
Annals of American History Online. Encyclopaedia
Britannica Inc. http://america.eb.com
ARTstor. ARTstor, Inc. http://www.artstor.org
Business and Company Resource Center. Gale Group.
http://galenet.galegroup.com
CQ Researcher. Congressional Quarterly Inc.
http://library.cqpress.com/
CredoReference. Credo Reference. http://www.xreferplus.com
Criminal Justice Periodicals. ProQuest. http://proquest.umi.com
Current Biography. H.W. Wilson. http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com
Custom Newspapers. Gale Group. http://web3.infotrac.galegroup.com
Daily Life Online. Greenwood Publishing Group,
Inc. http://dailylife.greenwood.com
EncyclopaediaBritannica Online. Encyclopaedia
Britannica Inc. http://search.eb.com/
ERIC. OCLC FirstSearch. http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org
Facts on File Reference Suite. Facts on File
News Service. http://www.2facts.com
FAITS. Faulkner Information Services. http://www.faulkner.com
Gale Virtural Reference Center. Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com
Grove Dictionary of Art Online. Grove. http://www.groveart.com
Grove Music Online. Grove. http://www.grovemusic.com
Harpweek. Harpweek, LLC. http://app.harpweek.com
Health Reference Center-Academic. Gale Group.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw
Humanities E-Book Project. American Council
of Learned Societies. Use specific url of e-book used - for example:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03457
Informe. Gale Group. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/
JSTOR. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/jstor
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Lexis-Nexis.
http://lexisnexis.com/universe
Literature Resource Center. Gale Group. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/
Magill’s Medical Guide. Salem Press. http://health.salempress.com
Naxos Music Library. Naxos Digital Services.
http://sunyjefferson.naxosmusiclibrary.com
New England Journal of Medicine. Massachusetts
Medical Society. http://content.nejm.org
New York State Newspapers. Gale Group. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/
New York Times. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
http://proquest.umi.com
Northern New York Historical Newspapers. Northern
New York Library Network. http://www.nnyln.org
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale Group.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com
Original Sources. Western Standard Publishing
Company. http://www.originalsources.com
ScienceDirect. Elsevier. http://www.sciencedirect.com
Standard & Poor's. Standard & Poor's.
http://www.netadvantage.standardandpoors.com
SUNY Press E Book Collection. State University
of New York. Use specific url of e-book used - for example: http://hdl.handle.net/1951/523
Today’s Science on File. Facts on File
News Service. http://www.2facts.com/TSOF
Wall Street Journal. ProQuest. http://proquest.umi.com
Wilson Omnifile. H.W. Wilson. http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com
WilsonSelect Plus. OCLC FirstSearch. http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org
World Almanac. OCLC FirstSearch. http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org