In HLTH 1050, you will likely be asked to use MLA style when integrating sources into your work. It is very important to include in-text citations and a works cited page at the end of your papers. The good news is that creating and providing citations is not difficult!
The majority of the Library's databases, including Summon, have built-in citation generators. These help you to easily retrieve citations for your sources. Both Google Scholar and PubMed Central also have citation generators.
Note: Always consider the citations you pull from any citation generator to be drafts. You should review the citation for accuracy. You may need to fix spacing, indentation, capitalization, the number of authors listed in the citation, and URLs or DOIs. If you are using APA, for example, a common error is that the citation generator will capitalize every word in the article's title. Instead, APA uses sentence case, where you capitalize only the first words of titles and subtitles and proper nouns.
Once you've selected an article, look for the "Cite" tool. In some databases, including Google Scholar and ProQuest Central, this looks like a quotation marks (" ") icon. The image below shows how the citation generator looks in Summon.
After opening an article in ProQuest Central, look for the tools icons near the article's title. Select the "Cite" icon, as seen in the image below.
Use the drop-down menu to select the "MLA 9th - Title Casing" citation, as seen in the image below.
Example Draft Citation: Mackey, Tim K,PhD., M.A.S., et al. "Twitter-Based Detection of Illegal Online Sale of Prescription Opioid." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 107, no. 12, 2017/12//, pp. 1910-1915. ProQuest, https://libprox1.slcc.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/twitter-based-detection-illegal-online-sale/docview/1967813008/se-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.303994.
In this example, the credentials after the author's name needing removed, the slashes with the month ("/12//") needed removed after the year, the database name needed correcting (from ProQuest to ProQuest Central), and the automatically generated URL needed switched to the article's DOI.
When you create citations, pay attention to details, including punctuation and italics. Please note that MLA requires the use of hanging indents, which are difficult to demonstrate here.
Roche, Ann, and Alice McEntee. “Ice and the Outback: Patterns and Prevalence of Methamphetamine Use in Rural Australia.” The Australian Journal of Rural Health, vol. 25, no. 4, Aug. 2017, pp. 200–209. APA PsycInfo, https://doi.org./10.1111/ajr.12331.
Online scholarly journal article from a database (no DOI, 1 author)
Fedotov, Yury. “The Straw Men Reigniting an 'International War on Drugs': A Case for Multilateralism.” Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 25, no. 2, 2019, pp. 93–108. ProQuest Central, https://libprox1.slcc.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/central/magazines/straw-men-reigniting-international-war-on-drugs/docview/2244553842/sem-2?accountid=28671
Online scholarly journal article from a website (3+ authors, no page numbers)
Rosic, Tea, et al. "The Association between Cannabis Use and Outcome in Pharmacological Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder." Harm Reduction Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00468-6.
