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Works Cited page entry: Electronic source
Please note that although the MLA Handbook recommends underlining material that is italicized in print, italics are used in these examples because of internet browser limitations.
Entries for electronic sources include five types of information (as available): (1) author name, (2) title, (3) information about print publication, (4) information about electronic publication, and (5) access information.
| Type
of source |
Sample
entry in reference list |
| Online scholarly article | Ross, Andrew. "Hacking Away at the
Counterculture." Postmodern Culture
1.1 (1990): 43 pars. 3 May 2003
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/
postmodern_culture/v001.1ross.html>. |
| An entire online book | Rawlins, Gregory J. Moths to the Flame.
Cambridge: MIT P, 1996. MIT Press.
30 Aug 2000 <http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/
moths/> |
| A part of an online book | Rawlins, Gregory J. Preface. Moths to the
Flame. Cambridge: MIT P, 1996. MIT
Press. 3 Aug. 2000 <http://mitpress.mit.edu/
e-books/moths/preface.html>. |
| Online scholarly project | Suffragists Oral History Project. 1998.
Library, U of California, Berkeley. 20
Jan. 2003 <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/
BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html>.
(Note: If the site lists an editor [and some do],
insert, e.g., "Ed. John P. Doe." before the first date.) |
| An entire Internet site | Electronic Beowulf. Ed. Kevin Kiernan. 2003.
5 Sept. 2003 <http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/
eBeowulf/guide.htm>. |
| Article in online magazine | Fallows, James. "The Age of Murdoch." Atlantic
Online Sept. 2003. 10 Oct. 2003
<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/
09/fallows.htm>. |
| Article in online newspaper | Goldfarb, Zachary A. "Child Health Dilemma."
Washington Times 31 Aug. 2003. 4 Sept. 2003
<http://www.washtimes.com/world/
20030831-121939-8655r.htm>.
(Note: Some URLs are so long that they are time-consuming to
reproduce accurately. In these cases you may provide the URL
of the site's search page instead--here, for example,
<http://www.washtimes.com>.) |
| Article in online encyclopedia | "Drake, Sir Francis." Columbia Encyclopedia.
2002. Columbia Encyclopedia. 6 July 2003
<http://www.bartleby.com/65/Drake-Si.html>. |
| Document from online database |
"Macromedia, Inc." Hoover's Online. 2002.
Hoover's, Inc. 4 Sept 2003 <http://www.
hoovers.com/free/co/factsheet.xhtml?COID=16658>. |
| A home page for a course | Todar, Kenneth. Host-Parasite Interactions.
Course home page. Spring 2003. Dept. of
Bacteriology, U of Wisconsin. 7 Apr. 2003
<http://bact.wisc.edu/Bact330/Bact330Homepage>. |
| An e-mail communication | Tetslaff, Melissa. E-mail to the author. 17
Sept. 2002. |
| Newspaper article from online database | Young, Judith S.L. "Fadeout; Only a Few Grand
Old Movie Theaters Remain to Remind Us of
Their Golden Age." Newsday 3 Aug. 2003,
Queens ed.: G06. Lexis-Nexis. 5 July 2003
<http://web.lexis-nexis.com/> |
