Cite It

A sample in-text and bibliographic citation are presented here.

See the style guide for more complete and specific rules. You may also notice that all citations in this research guide are in MLA Style.

In-Text Citation

Note the following:

• All of the quoted text is in quotation marks.

• The author’s last name is called out in the text.

• The page number of the citation appears in parentheses after the closing quotation mark.

• If the author’s name were not called out in the text, the name could have been placed in the parentheses next to the page number.

Bibliographic Entry

This is a citation of a journal article. Note the following:

• The author’s name appears first, followed by the article title in quotation marks.

• The title of the journal is italicized.

• Following the title are volume, issue, date, and page numbers.

• Following the journal information is the “container,” i.e., where the article is stored—in this case an EBSCOhost database.

• Container names are italicized.

• The final element is the “location,” where the article can be found.

• Often, the location will be a “stable” or “permanent” web address copied from the database. In this example, however, the location is instead a DOI, which is a number permanently linked to a scholarly work.

• Generally, a DOI is preferable to a URL.