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, Business & Company Resource Center, Business Source Premier, Commodity & Industry Codes (SIC & NAICS), EDGAR SEC filings, Euromonitor GMID, Europa World, IBIS[World], Investext Plus, Lexis-Nexis, Mergent, National Trade Data Bank, Reference USA, Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, and other materials from company websites.
• Citing Electronic Resources [MLA Style]. (California State University, Sacramento)
  Includes examples of Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, netLibrary electronic books, 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 Government Information Sources Using MLA Style. (University of Nevada, Reno)
  Includes examples of citing census data, Stat-USA material, and more.
• Citing Select Business Sources Using MLA Style. (Coastal Carolina University)
  Examples of citing an annual report, an association website, a company web site, a report on a company's intranet, company profiles, Datamonitor Reports from Business Source Premier, Investext, Mergent Online, Standard & Poor's, Statistical Abstract of the United States, stock exchanges online, Valueline, and Yahoo Finance.
• Citing Online Sources Using APA Format. (University of Washington, Bothell)
  Examples include compay annual reports and 10Ks, financial reports, Euromonitor, Factiva, Investext Plus, and Lexis-Nexis.
• Citing Sources: Business Research Assistant. (University of Vermont)
  Examples from Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, and Mergent Online.  How to cite a page from an interactive database (Factiva or Mergent Online reports), EDGAR SEC filings, and personal communications.
• 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, Investext Plus, 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), EDGAR, Emerald, Euromonitor, Europa World, [Euromonitor] GMID, IBIS[World], Lexis-Nexis, Mergent, Reference USA, Standard & Poor's, 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..

For more general information, see Citing Sources.

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