In our citation examples we use the following color coding:
- Red – Author
- Blue – Title of book/article/charter/webpage
- Pink – Date
- Orange – Website/Publisher
- Turquoise – Place of publication
- Green – Title of journal
- Black – Volume/Issue
- Sienna – Pages
- Gray – URL/database/website where the source is retrieved
Full text from database
If there is no DOI, it is acceptable to use URL in order to link the article to your work. If you possess both URL and DOI, always use the latter.
Example:
Cliff, Amy Fish. “’What Are We Doing Here’: Eastern Cherokee Civil Authorities and
Sovereign Territorial Rights.” American Indian Quarterly 36, no. 2 (2013): 234-269. doi: /1d11d977-389e.
Footnote citation:
1. Amy Fish Cliff, “’What Are We Doing Here’: Eastern Cherokee Civil Authorities and
Sovereign Territorial Rights,” American Indian Quarterly 36, no. 2 (2013): 234-269, doi: /1d11d977-389e.
Full text from database (no author)
Example:
“Higher Education in the Hi-Tech Age: Higher Education Leadership Forum.” The Chronicle
of Higher Education 52, no. 16 (2005): 105-107. doi: /1001oi567.
Footnote citation:
1. “Higher Education in the Hi-Tech Age: Higher Education Leadership Forum,” The
Chronicle of Higher Education 52, no. 16 (2005): 105-107, doi: /1001oi567.
Full text from newspaper, newswire (no author)
Example:
“Trump is Going to Ruin America.” BBC, January 17, 2017. Accessed January 20, 2017.
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/389742289.
Footnote citation:
1. “Trump is Going to Ruin America,” BBC, January17, 2017, accessed January 20, 2017,
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/389742289.
Full text newspaper from database
Example:
Mace, Lina. “Visiting Professor Lectures on Painting.” Exponent (West Lafayette, IN),
October 26, 2011. http://www.purdueexponent.org/features/article_6gh3a2814-cd52-5f16-87b3-7c013123133e8f.html.
Footnote citation:
1. Lina Mace, “Visiting Professor Lectures on Painting,” Exponent (West Lafayette,
IN), October 26, 2011, http://www.purdueexponent.org/features/article_6gh3a2814-cd52-5f16-87b3-7c013123133e8f.html.