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Electronic sources  (reprinted from Bedford/St.Martin's website

MLA's guidelines for documenting electronic sources can be found in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. (New York: MLA, 2003). For more help with citing electronic sources in MLA style, see the list of frequently asked questions in the section "MLA Style" on MLA's Web site, http://www.mla.org.

NOTE: When a Web address in a works cited entry must be divided at the end of a line, MLA recommends that you break it after a slash. Do not insert a hyphen.

27. An entire Web site
Give as many of the following elements as apply and as are available:
  1. The name of the author or corporate author (if known)
  2. The title of the site, underlined
  3. The names of any editors
  4. The date of publication or last update
  5. The name of any sponsoring organization
  6. The date of access
  7. The URL in angle brackets

In the following example, items 3 and 5 do not apply.

 

WITH AUTHOR



 

WITH CORPORATE (GROUP) AUTHOR

United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Values and Functions
     of Wetlands. 25 May 1999. 24 Mar. 2001 <http://www.epa.gov-owow/
     wetlands/facts/fact2.html>.

 

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Margaret Sanger Papers Project. 18 Oct. 2000. History Dept., New York
     U. 3 Apr. 2001 <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/>.

 

WITH EDITOR

Exploring Ancient World Cultures. Ed. Anthony F. Beavers. 1997. U of
     Evansville. 12 Mar. 2001 <http://eawc.evansville.edu/
     index.htm>.



NOTE: If the site has no title, substitute a description, such as "Home page," for the title. Do not underline the words or put them in quotation marks.

 

Block, Marylaine. Home page. 5 Mar. 2001. 12 Apr. 2001
     <http://www.marylaine.com>.




28. Short work from a Web site
Short works are those that appear in quotation marks in MLA style: articles, poems, and other documents that are not book length. For a short work from a Web site, include as many of the following elements as apply and as are available:

  1. Author's name
  2. Title of the short work, in quotation marks
  3. Title of the site, underlined
  4. Date of publication or last update
  5. Sponsor of the site (if not named as the author or given as the title of the site)
  6. Date you accessed the source
  7. The URL in angle brackets


Usually at least some of these elements will not apply or will be unavailable. In the following example, no sponsor or date of publication was available. (The date given is the date on which the researcher accessed the source.)

 

WITH AUTHOR



 

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

"Media Giants." Frontline: The Merchants of Cool. 2001. PBS Online.
     7 Mar. 2001 <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/
     cool/giants>.



NOTE: When the URL for a short work from a Web site is very long, you may give the URL for the home page and indicate the path by which readers can access the source.

 

"Obesity Trends among U.S. Adults between 1985 and 2001." Centers
     for Disease Control and Prevention. 3 Jan. 2003. 17 Feb.
     2003 <http://www.cdc.gov>. Path: Health Topics A-Z: Obesity
     Trends; U.S. Obesity Trends 1985 to 2001.



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 29. Online book
When a book or a book-length work such as a play or a long poem is posted on the Web as its own site, give as much publication information as is available, followed by your date of access and the URL. (See also the models for print books: items 6-19.)

 

Rawlins, Gregory J. E. Moths to the Flame. Cambridge: MIT P, 1996.
     3 Apr. 2001 <http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Moths/
     contents.html>.



If the book-length work is posted on a scholarly Web site, provide information about that site.

 

Jacobs, Harriet Ann. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Boston,
     1861. Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience
     in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. Ji-Hae Yoon and Natalia Smith.
     1998. Academic Affairs Lib., U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
     14 Mar. 2001 <http://docsouth.unc.edu/jacobs/jacobs.html>.



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 30. Part of an online book
Place the part title before the book's title. If the part is a short work such as a poem or an essay, put its title in quotation marks. If the part is an introduction or other division of the book, do not use quotation marks.

 

Adams, Henry. "Diplomacy." The Education of Henry Adams. Boston:
     Houghton, 1918. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. 1999.
     17 Feb. 2003 <http://bartleby.com/159/8.html>.

 
Bryan, William S., and Robert Rose. Preface. A History of the Pioneer
     Families of Missouri. St. Louis: Bryan, 1876. University of
     Missouri Digital Library. 2002. 20 Feb. 2003 <http://
     digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi-bin/Ebind2h3/umkc3>.