Article from a Database

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Author. Title. Title of container, other contributors, version, number, publisher, publication date, location.If you are accessing a journal article from a database, you will need two containers to present the original publication information as well as the access information from the database.

Goldman, Anne. "Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante." The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, spring 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188.

NOTES: MLA requires a DOI (digital object identifier), permalink, or URL (in that order for preference) for online material.

A season in the ninth edition is in lowercase if it follows a comma.

Elements
Elements used in this citation example are author, title, title of container 1, number, publication date, location, title of container 2, and location of container 2.

A laptop with a database openIf you are accessing a journal article from a database, you will need two containers to present the original publication information as well as the access information from the database.

NOTE: MLA now requires full URLs for online material. You should look for a stable link to the article within the database. However, if your article includes a DOI (digital object identifier), that information should be provided instead of the URL.

Goldman, Anne. "Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante." The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188.

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