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How do I cite an article from the Lexis-Nexis database?

Within your paper, you would cite this article as you would any other article. However, you need to take special care when citing these articles on your work cited page.

MLA style To cite something from Lexis-Nexis, using the MLA style, use the following formats.

For news articles
Author (if given). "Title of article in quotations." Name of Newspaper in Italics Date of Article - day month year: Section and page number the word Online. The word Lexis-Nexis. Library Name/File Name. Access Date - day month year:

Alexander, Serguei. "Someday Another Disaster." Sacramento Bee 22 April 1997: Pg. A1. Online. Lexis-Nexis. News/Majpap. 11 November 1998.

For periodical articles
Author. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical in italics Date - day month year: Vol. No. (& issue no.) - if given. The word Online. Lexis-Nexis. Library name/File name. Access Date day month year:

Wolf, Christopher. "Doing time on a class B felony." Forbes 20 May 1996: p. 192. Online. Lexis-Nexis. News/Mags. 4 January 1999.

With most electronic databases, things are still a bit loose. For more information on citing electronic information, see Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information and Baker Reference.