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Citing Internet Sources – MLA Citation

Entries in a works-cited list for online sources contain, as many items from the list below as are relevant and available.

  • Name of the author, if any, reversed for alphabetizing.
  • Title of a poem, short story, article, or similar short work (in quotation marks).
  • Title of a book (underlined) or web site.
  • Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text preceeded by an abbreviation, such as Ed.
  • Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting.
  • Date when you accessed the source.
  • Electronic address, or URL, of the source (in angle brackets); or, for a subscription service, the URL of the service's main page (if known).
  • If you can not find some of this information, cite what is available.
  • In parenthetical references in the text, works on the World Wide Web are cited just like printed works.

SCHOLARLY PROJECT, INORMATION DATABASE OR PROFESSIONAL SITE

Handgun Control. 2001. 25 Apr. 2001 <http://www.handguncontrol.org>.

Lee, Jenny. “Values Education in the Two-Year Colleges.” Apr. 2000. ERIC Digests. 26 Apr. 2001

        <http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed440681.html>.

Lonely Planet Online. 2001. 25 Apr. 2001 <http://www.lonelyplanet.com/>.

Perseus Digital Library. Ed. Gregory Crane. Tufts University. 26 Apr. 2001

        <http:// www.perseus.tufts.edu>.

“School Shootings…And Beyond: Kids and Guns in America.” 2001. Handgun Control. 25 Apr. 2001

        <http://www.handguncontol.org>.

Smith, Jonathan Z. "Myth." 2000. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 May 2000 <http://britannica.com>.

Tinker, Rich. “Drought Monitor.” National Drought Migration Center. 17 May 2001. University of

        Nebraska-Lincoln. 22 May 2001 <http://enso.unl.edu/monitor/monitor.html>.

ONLINE BOOK

Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. London, 1810. British Women Romatic Poets, 1789 – 1832. 2000.

        University of California, Davis. 26 Apr. 2001

        <http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/Works/AikiLEpist.htm>.

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Men. Great Literature Online. 2000. 26 Apr. 2001

        <http://www.mostweb.cc/Classics/Alcott/littlemen/>.

ONLINE POEMS AND SHORT STORIES

Blake, William. "Ah Sunflower." The Poetry Archives. 26 Apr. 2001

        <http://www.emule.com/poetry/?page=poem&poem=37>.

Poe, Edgar Allan. “Black Cat.” The Works of Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849. 1997. 22 May 2001

        <http://www.pambytes.com/poe/stories/blackcat.html>.

ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL

Bilton, Peter. "Another Island, Another Story." Renaissance Forum 5.1 (2000). 26 Apr. 2001

        <http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/>.

ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE

Chu, Candi. "I Remember October." Planet Magazine March 2001. 26 Apr. 2001

        <http://www.planetmag.com/>.

ARTICLE IN A NEWSPAPER

Leary, Warren W. “Test of Revolutionary Jet Promises to Transform Flight.” New York Times on the

        Web 22 May 2001. 22 May 2001 <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/science/22HYPE.html>.

PERSONAL SITE

Mundale, Jennifer. Home Page. 2001. 25 Apr. 2001 <http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~jmundale/>.


POSTING TO A DISCUSSION LIST

For a posting to a discussion list, newsgroup or forum, include the name of the list, newsgroup or forum.

Grumman, Bob. "Shakepeare and the Stigma of Stage Plays.” Online posting. 23 Apr. 2001.

        Humanities.Lit.Authors.Shakespeare. 26 Apr. 2001

        <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=23b9699e94a2be39>.

EMAIL COMMUNICATION

James, Susan. “Re: Hamlet.” Email to John Smith. 27 May 2001. Rich, Frank. Email to the author.

        25 May 2001.

REVIEW

Jensen, Kim. Rev. of Indivisible, by Fanny Howe. The Boston Book Review 17 May 2001. 22 May 2001

        <http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/bbr-home.html>.

INTERVIEW

Cullin, Mitch. Interview by Roger Gathman. Publishers Weekly.com 9 Apr. 2001. 22 May 2001

        <http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/20010409_95133.asp>.


EDITORIAL

“A Victory for Press Freedoms.” Editorial. New York Times on the Web 22 May 2001. 22 May 2001

        <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/opinion/22TUE2.html>.


FILM OR FILM CLIP

Almereyda, Michael, dir. Hamlet. Miramax, 2000. 22 May 2001

        <http://ramhurl.film.com/smildemohurl.ram?file=screen/2000/clips/hamle.smi>.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

United States. Cong. House. Subcommittee on the Census Committee on Govern Reform. Hearing on

        BEA: Is the GDP Accurately Measuring the U.S. Economy? 107th Cong. 5 April 2001. 22 May 2001

        <http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/about//testimony.html>.