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- What are Citations?
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- Putting it Together
- In-text Citations
- Questions?
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When citing articles found through a database such as EBSCOhost or ProQuest, it is important that you
include information about the database in your citation.
Citing an article from a database requires two steps:
- Cite the article as you would any other magazine, newspaper, or journal article.
- Add information about which database you used to find the article at the end of the citation. If you
are able to find the doi for an article, you do not need to include the database name.
Here's the newspaper article citation that we used earlier in the tutorial:
 I found this article through the ProQuest
database, so I need to include that in my citation. Add the following to
the citation to denote this additional information: Retrieved from ProQuest
database.
Here's another example with a magazine article found in EBSCOhost:
And an example from a journal article from EBSCOhost. I couldn't find the doi for this article so I
do need to include the database name:
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