Citing Articles
MLA Style Examples: - McGrath, Thomas. "Color and the Exchange of Ideas Between Patron and Artist
- in Renaissance Italy." The Art Bulletin June 2000: 298-308. WilsonSelectPlus. FirstSearch. Babson College Horn Lib., Babson Park, MA. 22 June 2001 <http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/>.
For additional MLA examples, visit the MLA site.
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( ) to group synomyns or similar terms | entrepreneur* and team*
entrepren* or intrapren*
(entrepren* or intrapren*) and interviews |
| Truncation | * (asterisk) | entrepreneur* (searches for entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, etc.) |
| Proximity - Same order | wX | market w2 share |
| Proximity - Any order | nX | market n2 share (would search for "share of the market") |
| Wildcard | ? (question mark) | wom?n |
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| Keyword | kw: | byproduct+
[keyword searches the Source Title field and the Abstract, Source, Subject, and Title indexes] |
| Abstract | ab: | american labor movement+ |
| Author | au: | o'hara
ohara |
| Author affiliation | aa: | tuskegee u |
| Author phrase | au= | DeLorme, Charles D., Jr.
delorme charles d jr |
| Descriptors | de: | public and private enterprise+ |
| Descriptors phrase | de= | public enterprises |
| Document type phrase | dt= | dissertation |
| Geographic coverage phrase | gc= | british virgin islands |
| Named person | na= | jefferson thomas
[last name first] |
| Publisher | pb: | mcgraw-hill |
| Source | so: | asian journal+ |
| Source phrase | so= | asian economic journal |
| Subject | su: | trade negotiation |
| Subject phrase | su= | central europe |
| Title | ti: | music festival+ |
| Title phrase | ti= | computer-driven productivity boom |
| Year | yr: | 1997
1993-1997 |
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EconLit contains citations and abstracts to articles from more than 640 economics journals. This database also includes some subject indexing and abstracts of books and dissertations. Corresponding printed sources are:
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Index of Economic Articles
- Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics
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