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APA format for full-text magazine or journals articles

Warning:  Citation style for online sources is continually evolving.  Consult your instructor in choosing the appropriate style and for further guidance.
Author, Initial.  (date of original source).  Article Title. Original Source of Article, page numbers.  Retrieved [month day, year]
            from [source] database ([name of database]).
Gale example:
Lander, J. F., and P.A. Lockridge.  (2004).  The Nature and Characteristics of Tsunamis.  Tsunamis. Ed. Nancy Harris, Great
            Disaster Seriess.  San Diego: Greenhaven Press.
 Retrieved August 8, 2008, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

         database (Gale).  <http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.vccs.edu>.
EBSCOhost example:
Black, D.  (1996).  Sex, Death and Ronald McDonald:  On the Road During the Era of Greatest Peril for the One Indispensable
            American Show.  American Heritage, 47(5), 78-90.  Retreived August 1, 2008, from America:  History & Life database

         (EBSCO).
CQ Researcher report example: [includes volume number. issue number (year)]
Hatch, D.  (2003, June 6).  Drug Company Ethics.  The CQ Researcher Online, 13, 521-544.  Retrieved August 1, 2008, from  
            http://library.cqpress.com/cqresesearcher/cqresrre2003060600.  Document ID: cqresrre2003060600.
For more detail on citing articles and reports from Gale, EBSCOhost, and CQ Researcher, look at the "How to Cite" links or the "Help" files within the database.

APA format for electronic books

Author.  (Print version publication date in parenthesis).  Title in italics or underlined. Publication place (print):  Publisher (print).
            Retrieved date accessed, from Internet location: URL
NetLibrary eBook example:
Zeinert, K.  (1998).   Those Courageous Women of the Civil War  BrookField, CT: Millbrook Press.  Retrieved August 1, 2007,
            from NetLibrary.  <http://www.NetLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=action=summary&v=1&bookid=28948>.
For more information on how to cite netLibrary eBooks, see the netLibrary page in this handbook.
Note:
Some of the databases provide ready-made citations for you within the articles.