Mergent Online: How to use it

General Guidelines for Citing Mergent Online as a Source

MLA

If there are no authors or editors listed for the data or report you retrieved, use the MLA guidelines for citing an entire Web site. Since there are no authors or editors listed for the database use Mergent, Inc. as the corporate author, the date is the date accessed.

Example:

     Mergent, Inc. Mergent Online. DuPont-Ball LIbrary, Stetson University, 31 Oct. 2013. Web. 31 Oct. 2013.

             <http://www.mergentonline.com/>

APA

In most cases you will use the following to cite Mergent Online as your source if you are using APA style.  APA refers to non-peer-reviewed work, such as reports, brochures, fact sheets, press releases, and newsletter articles as “gray literature.” List as many of the following elements as are available.

• Author’s name
• Date of publication (if there is no date, use “n.d.”)
• Title of document (in italics)
• A URL that will take readers directly to the source
• Give your date of access only if the source itself has no date.

 Example:

     (2013, October). Afghanistan Country Report. Retrieved October 31, 2013, from

             http://www.mergentonline.com