WSHS Library: Documenting Online Sources 
according to the Modern Language Association (MLA) http://www.mla.org

You will need the following items in this order for a basic citation. If the information is not available (for example, no author), omit it.


 Use this format:
Author. Blanchfield, Deirdre.
"Title of Article/poem/short story/document." "Public Executions in Nineteenth-Century England."
Website or Project. Pip's World: A Hypertest on Dickens's  Great Expectations.
Editor. Ed. Elizabeth Bellalouna.
Date of website's creation or latest revision 1999?
Sponsoring Institution/Organization. University of Michigan--Dearborn.
Your access date 27 Mar. 2003
<Complete URL> <http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/index.html>
Entries are doublespaced, with hanging indention.
Examples:
Blanchfield, Deirdre. "Public Executions in Nineteenth-Century England."Pip's World: A Hypertest on Dickens's  Great Expectations. Ed. Elizabeth Bellalouna. 1999? University of Michigan--Dearborn. 27 Mar. 2003 <http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/index.html>

"Chaucer's Works." Chaucer Metapage. 1 May 2002 <http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/chworks.htm>

The Walt Whitman Archive. Ed. Ed Folsom, Ken Price.  May 2002.  University of Viginia. 27 May. 2002
<http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/>

"Nurse, Rebecca, et al, Death Warrant, Reverse Side, MSAM48, B05A." Boston Public Library Witchcraft Documents. 2002. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. 20 Mar. 2003. <http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/archives/BPL/B05A.html>

If the article/photo appears in a database


Use this format:
Author/Photographer (or Photo Credit) . Smith, David.
"Title of Article/poem/short story/document." "Life at West Springfield High School."
Periodical or Newspaper. Oracle
Issue date and article page numbers. 23 Mar. 2003:89-123.
Database. ProQuest.
Your access date 27 Mar. 2003
<Complete URL> <http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb>.
Entries are doublespaced, with hanging indention.
Magazine/Periodical/Scholarly Journal:
Frick, Robert. "Investing in Medical Miracles." Kiplinger's Personal Finance Feb. 1999: 80-87. SIRS Researcher.  10 Feb. 2000 <http://www.sirs.com>.
Newspaper:
Henneberger, Melinda. "Author Reveals Much about Others and Little of Herself." New York Times 6 Dec. 1999, East Coast late ed.: A16.  ProQuest.  6 Dec. 1999 <http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb>.
CQ Researcher:
"Oil Diplomacy." CQ Researcher. 24 Jan. 2003. CQ Electronic Library. 31 Mar. 2003 <http://library.cqpress.com>.
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive:
Associated Press AP. Cross Burning at Rally. 1940. AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive. 31 Mar. 2003. <http://ap.accuweather.com/apphoto/index.htm>

Gale series or other reprint collections. If the information is not available (for example, no place of publication), omit it. (These are not online sources, but are included here for your convenience.)

Use this format:
Author. Mizener, Arthur.
"Title of exerpt." "F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): The Poet of borrowed Time."
Title of Original Source (book, periodical). The Lives of Eighteen from Princeton.
City of Original Publication: Original Publisher, copyright date. (N.p. = No place, if the is none listed) N.p.: Princeton University Press, 1946.
Periodical date. Page numbers. Mar.-Apr., 1942.
Rpt. in Gale Series Title. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Editor. (from the title page) Eds. Dedria Bryfonski and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson.
Vol. #. Vol. 1
City of Anthology Publication: Publisher, Year. Detroit: Gale, 1978.
Gale page number(s). 241-243.
Entries are doublespaced, with hanging indention.
Examples:
Original appeared in a book:
Hyman, Stanley Edgar. "The Great Fitzgerald." Standards: A Chronicle of Books for Our Time. New York: Horizon Press, 1966. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1978. 264.
Magazine/Periodical/Scholarly Journal:
Wycherly, H. Alan. "Fitzgerald Revisited." Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Summer 1966. 277-283. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1978. 261-262.
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