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Chicago Style: When to Include a Database Name

“For a source consulted via a library . . . database and available only through a . . . library account, it may be best to name the database [rather than provide] a URL” (CMOS 14.11).

Journal article without a DOI from the Academic Search Complete database on EBSCOhost

Davis, Wade. “If We Build It, They Will Come: Industrial Folly and the Fate of Northwest British Columbia.” BC Studies, no. 197 (Spring 2018): 145-62. Academic Search Complete.

Parenthetical citation: (Davis 2018, 151)