If there is a DOI:
Author last name, Author first name. "Article Title." Journal Title, vol. #, no. #, publication date, pp. #-#. Database Name, DOI.
Robbins, Michael. "Paul Muldoon's Covert Operations." Modern Philology, vol. 109, no. 2, 2011, pp. 266-99. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1086/663233.
If there is no DOI, then use a URL (particularly a permalink or stable URL, if one is available), and remove the beginning "http://" or "https://" from the link in your citation:
Author last name, Author first name. "Article Title." Journal Title, vol. #, no. #, publication date, pp. #-#. Database Name, URL.
Merriam, Alan P. "Music in American Culture." American Anthropologist, vol. 57, no. 6, 1955, pp. 1173-1181. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/665962.
Author last name, Author first name. Book title. Publisher Name, publication date.
Manning, Susan. Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters, 1700-1900. Cambridge UP, 2013.
Author last name, Author first name. Book title. Publisher Name, publication date. Database Name, URL.
Magill, Frank Northern. Notable Poets. Salem Press, 1998. EBSCO eBooks, ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=51653&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Author last name, Author first name. "Article Title." Encyclopedia Title, edited by Editor first name Editor last name, Publisher Name, publication date. Database Name, URL.
Chandler, James. "Keats, John." The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, edited by David Scott Kastan, Oxford UP, 2006. Oxford Reference, www.oxfordreference.com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780195169218.001.0001/acref-9780195169218-e-0250?rskey=p7VzeM&result=249.
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