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Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web

These guidelines on MLA documentation style for WWW references were adapted from those available on the Web site of the Modern Language Association of America.

  1. Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source (if available and relevant), reversed for alphabetizing and followed by an abbreviation, such as ed., if appropriate
  2. Title of a poem, short story, article, or similar 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 and put in quotation marks), followed by the description Online posting
  3. Title of a book (underlined)
  4. Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant and if not cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such as Ed.
  5. Publication information for any print version of the source
  6. 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
  7. Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database (if available)
  8. Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume number, issue number, or other identifying number
  9. Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting
  10. For a work from a subscription service, the name of the service and--if a library is the subscriber--the name and city (and state abbreviation, if necessary) of the library
  11. For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum
  12. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are numbered
  13. Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the Web site
  14. Date when the researcher accessed the source
  15. 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) or the keyword assigned by the service 







Scholarly Project



Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett.

     Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997 <http://

     www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>.




Professional Site



Portuguese Language Page. U of Chicago. 1 May 1997

     <http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/port/>.





Personal Site



Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 May 1997 <http://

     www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>.





Book



Nesbit, E[dith]. Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism.

     London, 1908. Victorian Women Writers Project.

     Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr.

     1997 <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

     nesbit/ballsoc.html>.





Poem



Nesbit, E[dith]. "Marching Song." Ballads and Lyrics

     of Socialism. London, 1908. Victorian Women

     Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997.

     Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997 <http://www.indiana.edu/

     ~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html#p9>.





Article in a Reference Database



"Fresco." Britannica Online. Vers. 97.1.1. Mar. 1997.

     Encyclopaedia Britannica. 29 Mar. 1997 <http://

     www.eb.com:180>.





Article in a Journal



Flannagan, Roy. "Reflections on Milton and Ariosto."

     Early Modern Literary Studies 2.3 (1996):

     16 pars. 22 Feb. 1997 <http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/

     0/e-sources/emls/02-3/flanmilt.html>.





Article in a Magazine



Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?"

     Slate 1 May 1997. 2 May 1997 <http://

     www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/Economics.asp>.





Work from a Subscription Service



Koretz, Gene. "Economic Trends: Uh-Oh, Warm Water."

     Business Week 21 July 1997: 22. Electric Lib.

     Sam Barlow High School Lib., Gresham, OR. 17 Oct.

     1997 <http://www.elibrary.com/>.



"Table Tennis." Compton's Encyclopedia Online. Vers.

     2.0. 1997. America Online. 4 July 1998. Keyword:

     Compton's.





Posting to a Discussion List



Merrian, Joanne. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre." 

     Online posting. 30 Apr. 1994. Shaksper: The Global

     Electronic Shakespeare Conference. 27 Aug. 1997

     <http://www.arts.ubc.ca/english/iemls/shak/

     MONSTERP_SPINOFF.txt>.







Books






Book by one author



Grace, Eric S.  Seals.  Boston: Little Brown, 1991.




Edited Book



Hoffman, Mark S., ed.  World Almanac and Book of Facts 1992.

     New York: Pharos, 1991.




Book with two or more authors



Markman, Roberta H., Peter T. Markman, and Marie Waddell. 

     10 Steps in Writing the Research Paper.  New York:

     Barron's, 1982.








Encyclopedias






Unsigned encyclobedia article



"Alzheimer's Disease."  Academic American Encyclopedia.

     1990 ed.




Signed encyclopedia article



Fisher, Dean H.  "Dolphin."  World Book Encyclobedia.  1990 ed.







Newspapers






Signed newspaper article



Stow, Beth.  "Dolphins in Our Lives."  Los Angeles Times 

     27 March 1998, sec. 4: 3.




Unsigned newspaper article



"U.S. Companies shouldn't Fight Cleaner Air Standards."  Detroit

     Free Press 31 October 1991, sec. A: 10.







Magazines and Periodicals






A signed article from a magazine or periodical



Newman, Richard J.  "The Best University."  U.S. News and

     World Report 28 September 1992: 114-115.




Norris, Kenneth S.  "Dolphins in Crisis."  National Geographic

     September 1991: 2-35.







Social Issues Resources Series






An Article from Social Issues Resources Series (SIRS)



Jones, Ray.  "Once Upon A Time.  A Black Cloud."  Boca Raton

     News 19-32 May 1982: 3 SIRS: SPORTS.  Vol II, Article 10.







Electronic Resources






Multimedia encyclopedia unsigned article



"Shock."  Multimedia Encyclopedia.  Compton's Learning Company.

     1990 ed.




Multimedia encyclopedia signed article



Hoffman, Gary.  "Detroit, Michigan: History."  Multimedia

     Encyclopedia.  Compton's Leatning Company.  1990 ed.







Computer Software






Van Wie, Paul.  The American People.  Computer software.

     Focus Media, 1984.




Note Card Maker.  Computer software.  Grolier Electronic, 1985.







Video Productions






Secrets of the Titanic.  Videocassette.  National 

     Geographic, 1996.








Personal Interview





Bush, George.  Personal interview.  23 September 1992.  Marsha

     Kibbey.  Telephone interview.










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