How to Cite Electronic Resources: MLA

In citing electronic resources, the Modern Language Association recommends that your entries contain as many items from the following list as are relevant and available:

Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator (if available and relevant), alphabetized by last name and followed by any appropriate abbreviations, such as ed.
Title of a poem, short story, article, or other short work within a scholarly project, database, or periodical (in quotation marks), or title of a posting to a discussion list or forum (taken from the subject line, put in quotation marks, and followed by the description online posting)
Title of a book (underlined)
Name of the editor, compiler, or translator (if relevant and if not cited earlier), preceded by any appropriate abbreviation, such as ed .
Publication information for any print version
Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or personal site (underlined), or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as home page 1
Name of the editor of a scholarly project or database (if available)
Version number (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume, issue, or other identifying number
For a posting to a discussion list, the name of the list or forum
Date of electronic publication, latest update, or posting, whichever is latest (if known; otherwise use n.d.)
Number of pages, paragraphs, or other identifiable sections (if any)
Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the Web site
Date you accessed the source
URL (in angle brackets)

According to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Section 4.9.2), the following information is recommended for citing Online Databases:

Name of author (if given)
Publication information for the printed source or analogue (including the title and date of print publication)
Title of the database (underlined)
Publication medium (Online)
Name of computer service
Date of access

Examples

Web pages

Author. Title of Web Page. Last Update. Date Accessed. <URL>.

Cupitt, Cathy. Laughing at the Carpenter. 27 May 1998. 10 Nov. 1998.
<http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/2405/miller.html>.

Harris, Jonathan G. "The Return of the Witch Hunts." Witchhunt Information Page. 19 Apr. 1997.
19 Nov. 1997 <http://web.mit.edu/harris/www/fells.short.html>.

Pellegrino, Joseph. Home page. 24 Sept. 1997. 7 Nov. 1997 <http://www.english.eku.edu /pellegri/personal.htm>.

Full Text Journal Article from Online Database

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Article Title. Title of Source Publication. Date of Source
Publication, Edition: Volume. Issue. Page. Database. Online. Date of Access.

Tebbe, Mark. "Good netiquette and business sense don't necessarily have to clash." InfoWorld
19.21 (2 Nov. 1998) 108 pars. UMI-Proquest Direct. Online. 2 Nov. 1998.

Cheng, Kai-ming. "Can education values be borrowed? Looking into cultural differences."
Peabody Journal of Education, 73.2 (1998): 11-30. FirstSearch WilsonSelect.
Online. 6 Nov. 1998.

Armes, Roy. "Jean Renoir." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1998. 3 pars. Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia. Online. 10 Nov. 1998.

References

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: Modern Language Association. 1995.

Harnack, Andrew and Eugene Kleppinger. Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources. New York: Bedford / St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Modern Language Association. MLA Style. 25 Nov. 1997. 9 Nov. 1997. <http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm>.

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