LSC-Tomball: Library Research Guides: Speech Communication: Find Articles

Database Search Tips

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Citation Help

APA Style Guide

APA Style7 Guide for References List and In-text citation

Refer to this quick guide to create your References list and help with in-text citation.

Chicago Style Manual

Notes & Bibliography Citation Guide
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Notes & Bibliography Overview
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MLA Style Guide

MLA Style Guide - 8th edition

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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text from over 500 journals for communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from over 330 journals encompassing all fields of humanities and periodicals dating to 1910.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full text of 285 journals in literature, history, international/cultural studies and other humanities and social science fields.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
[[Upgraded to include even wider coverage!]] Selected full-text from 30 US national and international newspapers and 200 regional papers, plus TV & radio news transcripts.
US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
US Major Dailies provides access to The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Over 30 million digital pages of newspapers dating back to the 18th century, including some international newspapers.