Digital Resources

*The general rule is that you cite the source like you normally do a print source, and then, you add the database name, the url, and the accessed date.

1. An online book

  • Last name, First name.  Title of Book. Publisher, Year of publication.

  • Example:
    Jakovljević, Branislav.     Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91. University of Michigan Press, 2016. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gk08f6.5, 6 Jan. 2017.

2. An online specialized reference from a database (our Salem Press books)

  • Last name, First name.  “Article Title.” Title of Book, edited by editor name, Publisher, Year of publication.
    Database Name, Web address. Accessed date.

  • Example:
    Angel, Christina C. "Grunge Fashion." The 1990s in America, edited by Milton Berman, Salem Press, 2009. Salem Online, online.salempress.com. Accessed 6 June 2017.

3.  Scholarly journal article from a database

  • Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. #, no. #, Year, pages. Database Name, Web address. Accessed date.

  • Example:
    Giry-Deloison, Charles.  “France and Elizabethan England."     Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. 14, no. 1, 2004, pp. 223-42. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3679317. Accessed 15 Aug. 2016.
    Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's     White Noise." Arizona Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 3, 1994, pp. 127-53. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/141446. Accessed 16 Aug. 2016.

4. Magazine from a database

  • Author last name, Author first name. “Article Title.” Title of the Magazine, Date Month Year, page entry range. Name of Database, url, Accessed date.

  • Example:
    Remnick, David J. "It Happened Here."     The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2016, p. 54. Popular Magazines, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=PPPM&sw=w&u=tel_s_tsla&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA472858347&asid=caec9916cf2dc15418e6f16c561ccbb3. Accessed 6 Jan. 2017.

5. Newspaper from a database

  • Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of the article.” Title of the newspaper, First name Last name of any other contributors, Version (if applicable), Numbers (if applicable), Date of publication, page range.

  • Examples:
    Blake, Aaron. "Everything That Was Said at the second Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton Debate, Highlighted."
    States News Service, 9 Oct. 2016. Infotrac Newsstand, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=STND&sw=w&u=tel_s_tsla&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA468373309&asid=11494d2547ad53d1e64b8e4d98ac42d9. Accessed 6 Jan. 2017.
    "Judge: Defendant's Rights Trump Those of Victims."     Knoxville News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN], 9 Oct. 2009. Business Collection, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&sw=w&u=tel_s_tsla&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA209342451&asid=302e260fa21803eabefb1b4496deae36. Accessed 6 Jan. 2017.

6. An eBook, such as Kindle or Nook

  • Cite the book as you would normally for a regular book, but add the edition type after the title.

  • Theile, Verena and Linda Tredennick. New Formalism and Literary Theory. Kindle ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.