SAMPLE
CITATIONS FOR ELECTRONIC SOURCES (MLA STYLE)
Include all available information!
Double space throughout!
Article from a Web Site
Author(s). "Title
of Article." Name of Web
Site. Name of
Editor
of Site (if given). Date of Posting or Revision.
Name of Sponsor.
Date
of Access. <electronic
address>.
Sample:
Witherell,
Elizabeth Hall with Elizabeth Dubrulle. "The
Life and Times of
Henry D. Thoreau." The
Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Life
and Times of HDT.
28
January 1999. U of California,
Santa Barbara. Accessed 14 January
2000. <http://www.library.ucsb.edu /depts./Thoreau/bexhibit.html>.
On-line Image or Graphics
Name of Author/Artist/Photographer.
"Title or Description." Date
of Image.
Name
of Web Site.
Name of Editor of Site. Date of
Posting or Revision. Name of Sponsor. Date of Access. <electronic
address>.
Sample:
Halsman,
Philippe. "Randall
Jarrell." (No Date.)
"Randall Jarrell." The
New York Times on the Web. 1999.
The New York
Times Company. Acessed
26 March 2001. <http://www.nytimes.com/books/9/08/01/specials/jarrell.htm>.
Information Database
Author. "Title
of Article." Title of Site.
Date of Posting/Revision. Name
of
Sponsoring Institution. Date
of Access. <electronic
address>.
Sample:
Marc,
David. "Welty, Eudora."
Microsoft® Encarta® OnlineEncyclopedia. 2003.
Accessed
17 Sept. 03. Microsoft Corporation.
<http://encarta.msn.com>.
Article in an Electronic Magazine or Newspaper
Author.
"Title of Article." Name of Magazine or Newspaper.
Date of Publication.
Name of Sponsor. Date
of Access. <electronic
address>.
Sample:
"Randall
Jarrell." The New York
Times on the Web. 01 August
1999. The
New York Times Company. Accessed
26 March 2001.
<http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/08/01/specials/jarrell.htm.
Article from an On-Line Book or Reference Work
Author. "Title."
Title of Reference Work. Names
of Editors. Place of
publication:
Publisher, Year of Publication. Date
of Posting. Sponsoring
Institution.
Date of access. <electronic address>.
Sample:
Georgakas,
Dan. "Hollywood
Blacklist." Encyclopedia of
the American Left.
Eds.
Buhle, Buhle, and Georgakas. Urbana
and Chicago: U of Illinois P,
1992.
Updated 9 Jan. 1999. U of
Pennsylvania. Accessed 23 March
2001. <http://www.English.upenn.edu/~alfilreis/50sblacklist.htm>.
Article accessed through the Kentucky Virtual Library
Author. "Title of article." Title of
Magazine/Newspaper/Journal Date
of Original Publication:
Vol.
#/Pages. Database Title. Library Name (City and State).
Name of Service Provider.
Date
Accessed. <electronic address>.
Sample:
Schaller, George B. "Realm of the Snow Antelope." Natural History May 1996: 48. MAS Ultra
- School Edition. Kentucky
Virtual Library (KYVL). EBSWCOhost.
15 Apr. 2003. <http://search.epnet.com/>.
FOR OTHER TYPES OF ELECTRONIC SOURCES, SEE YOUR
TEACHER OR CHECK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING HELPFUL WEBSITES:
Hogg, Kathy C. “Citing Sources.” Technology
and Learning. Revised
8/21/2003. Woodford County
Schools.
Accessed 26 September 2003. <http://www.woodford.k12..ky.us/technology/trt/khogg/Citing_sources.htm>.
"Using Modern Language Association (MLA)
Format." Purdue University
Online
Writing
Lab (OWL). December 2000. Purdue
University. Accessed 16 Sept. 03.
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/
research/ r_mla.html>.