MLA Citation Guide, 7th edition  Tags: modern_language_association writing citation mla works_cited references bibliography  

Shortened URLs for Subscription Databases

In APA style, when citing an article from a subscription database (not freely available on the Internet):

• Do not cite the exact URL (persistent link or Uniform Resource Locator or Internet address) of the article in APA
• Shorten the database URL
• URLs are surrounded by angle brackets < >
• If you need to break a URL in your works cited list, do so at a mark such a a slash, dash, or period
• Finish your citation with a period.

If you are off-campus, it may be hard to determine the exact URL for a database because you are using a proxy server. Here are the shortened URLs to use for articles from our most popular subscription databases:

EBSCOhost -- all EBSCOhost databases use the same URL

http://search.ebscohost.com

CQ Researcher

http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher

Ebrary (ebooks)

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/gatewaylibrary/

Nursing Journals @ OVID (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Collection)

http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=main&NEWS=N&D=ovft

ProQuest National Newspapers Core

http://proquest.umi.com/login

SIRS Knowledge Source

http://sks.sirs.com