Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. "Title of Article." Name of Journal Volume.Issue(Year): pages. Name of database. Web. Date of access.
Warren, Elizabeth, and Jay Lawrence Westbrook. "Contracting out of Bankruptcy: An Empirical
Intervention." Harvard Law Review 118.4(2005): 1197-254. JSTOR. Web. 16 Apr. 2009.
Barnett, W. Steven, et al. "Educational Effects of the Tools of the Mind Curriculum:
A Randomized Trial." Early Childhood Research Quarterly 23.3(2008): 1-21. Education
Research Complete. Web. 21 June 2010.
MLA Online Databases: Sources for Periodicals and Books
To cite a work from a periodical in an online database, such as an article, a review, an editorial, or a letter to the editor, begin the entry with the standard information including author, title of the source, the container, and necessary publication information.
Several of the databases that are available to you include articles from books. An entry of this type will include all of the basic information that is part of a citation for the print publication and will include the following items in sequence:
1. Title of the container = database (italicized)
2. Location = either URL or DOI
Articles in journals are often assigned Digital Object Identifiers, known as DOIs. A DOI will continue to lead to an object online even if the URL changes. DOIs consist of a series of digits and sometimes include letters. When possible, cite a DOI instead of a URL. It is important to remember that a database URL is entirely irrelevant if you have the database name.
MLA Journal Article Citation
Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. "Title of Source." Container 1, Number, Publication date, pages. Container 2, Location.
Examples:
Abel, Jaison R., and Richard Deitz. "Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?" Current Issues in
Economics & Finance, vol. 20, no. 3, 2014, pp. 1-12. Academic Search Complete .
Capozzi, Rocco. "Revisiting History: Conspiracies and Fabrication of Texts in 'Foucault's Pendulum' and 'The
Prague Cemetery.'" Italica , vol. 90, no. 4, 2013, pp. 260-49. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24368406.
Lyons, Christina. "Restorative Justice." CQ Researcher, vol. 26, no. 6, 5 Feb. 2016, 121-44. CQ Press .
Minyoung, Ku, et al. "Using a Simulation-Based Learning Environment for Teaching and Learning about
Complexity in Public Policy Decision Making." Journal of Public Affairs Education, vol. 22, no. 1, 2016,
pp. 49-66. Education Research Complete .
Reppert, Steven M., et al. “Neurobiology of Monarch Butterfly Migration.” Annual Review of Entomology,
vol. 61, 2016, pp. 25-42. Annual Reviews, doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010814-020855.
Sariaslan, Amir, et al. "Long-Term Outcomes Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood and
Adolescence: A Nationwide Swedish Cohort Study of a Wide Range of Medical and
Social Outcomes." Plos Medicine , vol. 13, no. 8, 2016. MEDLINE Complete ,
Vaida, Bara. "Health Care Reform." CQ Researcher, 27 June 2016. CQ Press .