Citing Business Sources

These web sites give examples of how to cite various business resources.  If you would like to use an online citation management tool to help you properly format and manage your citations, try RefWorks.

• Citation for an eBook from NetLibrary in MLA and in APA. (College of St. Scholastica)
  How to cite electronic books from netLibrary.
• Citing a Weblog Entry in MLA Style. (Dennis Jerz, Seton Hill University)
  From an associate professor of English and New Media Journalism.
• Citing Business Databases in APA Style. (UNC Greensboro)
  Examples of citing annual reports (from a company website), Advertising Redbooks, annual reports, Business & Company Resource Center, Business Source Premier, Commodity & Industry Codes (SIC & NAICS), Country Commercial Guides, EDGAR/IDEA SEC filings, Euromonitor GMID, Europa World, IBIS[World], Lexis-Nexis, Mergent, National Trade Data Bank, Reference USA, RIA Checkpoint, RMA, Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, and other materials from company websites.
• Citing Business Resources: A Guide to MLA Format. (Georgia State University - pdf.)
  analyst reports, annual reports, Business Source Premier, Euromonitor, Factiva, press releases, reports, sections of a website, and Yahoo Finance.
• Citing Electronic Resources [MLA Style]. (California State University, Sacramento)
  Includes examples of Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, netLibrary electronic books, personal email, ProQuest Newsstand, and (Business Source Premier) EBSCOhost.
• Citing Electronic Business Sources, based on APA Style. (UNC Charlotte - Word doc.)
  Includes examples from Datamonitor Reports from Business Source Premier, Investext Plus, Reference USA, [Simmons] Choices 3, SRDS Online, and Valueline.
• Citing Online Sources Using APA Format. (University of Washington, Bothell)
  Examples include company annual reports and 10Ks, ebooks, financial reports, Factiva, and Lexis-Nexis.
• Citing Sources: Electronic Books. (Coates Library, Trinity University)
  MLA and APA examples for citing different kinds of ebooks.
• Citing Your Sources for Business Students. (Boston University)
  Includes examples for Business Source (Premier), census reports, company annual reports through a database, Datamonitor Company Profiles, Datamonitor Industry Reports, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, Mediamark/MRI, Mergent Online, online dictionary entries, SRDS Online, Valueline, and working papers.
• How to Cite Electronic Information [APA Style]. (University of Minnesota Duluth)
  Find examples for Advertising Redbooks, Annual Reports, Business & Company Resource Center, Business Source Premier, Commodity & Industry codes (SIC/NAICS), Country Commercial Guides, EDGAR, Emerald, Euromonitor, Europa World, [Euromonitor] GMID, IBIS[World], Lexis-Nexis, Mergent Online, National Trade Data Bank, Reference USA, RIA Checkpoint, Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, and websites.
• Emerald Bibliographic Citation Guide. (Emerald)
  Publisher instructions on how to add Emerald Citations into RefWorks and other citation management software.
• How to Cite Factiva and How to Cite Lexis-Nexis. (Randolph-Macon College)
  Detailed examples for citing materials in these resources, in APA and MLA format.

For more general information, see Citing Sources.

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Updated August 2009 mdh