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| Citing Articles Retrieved with Lexis-Nexis UniverseFirstSearch is a family of databases maintained by OCLC ( Online Computer Library Center, Inc.) and accessible through the CSBSJU libraries and the campus computer network. We access it using a World Wide Web browser, but FirstSearch is not a web document or web site. Neither is it an online journal. It is an online database, and should be cited as such. Through FirstSearch you will find several types of references.
Cite by author and original page number, if available. Do not cite by the pages of your printout, for these are not standard. Instead, do as suggested for a "Work without page numbers" and count paragraphs. Cite by paragraph number. You will often have to use your judgment on where the article proper starts; do not count headings as separate paragraphs.
To cite the below article in your text, count paragraphs from the beginning of the article and use the author's name in the signal phrase:
... According to Nora Franca, women in Guazapa, El Salvador "want to end the situation, but at the same time they think it is their duty to put up with the violence, in the hope that the men will change" (par. 12).
If you do not use the author's name in the signal phrase, cite as follows: Note the comma between the author and the paragraph #!
Women in Guazapa, El Salvador "want to end the situation, but at the same time they think it is their duty to put up with the violence, in the hope that the men will change" (Franca, par. 12).
Put the following reference in your Works Cited. (See examples 39 and 30 in Hacker, A Writer's Reference.)
Franca, Nora. "El Salvador: Speaking Up, Speaking Out." The Right to Live Without ViolenceWomen's Proposals and Actions [Part 9 of 29]. 1996. 39-43. OCLC FirstSearch: CWI. Online. OCLC. March 2000.
*Note that the CWI database here could also be spelled out: Contemporary Women's Issues.