Montgomery College Libraries, Nursing Academic Tutorial

Articles in magazines and journals will vary as to the citation information available. Some journals and magazines use continuous paging throughout all the issues of a volume; others start each issue at page 1.

Citations for articles from electronic databases need to include: the name of the database underlined or italicized, the name of the library with a city and state abbreviation, date you retrieved the article, and the URL of the vendor for the citation entry in < >. Below and on the following pages are some examples.

Magazine Articles: (From a paper copy of the magazine)

Lavelle, Marianne. "Behind the Teen Birth Decline." U.S. News &

World Report 8 Aug. 2003: 22. Print.

Journal Articles: (From an electronic database)

Boot, Max. "The New American Way of War." Foreign Affairs 82.4

(2003): 41-50. Academic OneFile. Web. 6 Jan. 2009.