WILTON HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY

Recommended Works Cited Format
Guide to Electronic Sources

Based on the Modern
Language Association
(MLA) Style

Based on: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999. 111-177, and www.mla.org, web page for the Modern Language Association.

NOTE: ALL CITATIONS SHOULD BE DOUBLE SPACED

WHS Databases

MAS (Magazine Article Summary)
Duffy, Brian. "Coming to America." U.S. News and World Report 21 June 1993. MAS

Full Text Elite. CD-ROM. EBSCO, 1996.

SIRS
Brabyn, Howard. "The extra-terrestrial junkyard." UNESCO Courier. June, 1993. 41-43.

SIRS. CD-ROM. 1997.

Landmark
"Fugitive Slave Law of 1850." Landmark Documents in American History. CD-ROM.

New York: Facts on File, 1995.

NY Times On Disc
Angier, Natalie. "Chemists Learn Why Vegetables Are Good for You." New York Times

13 Apr. 1993, late ed.: C1. New York TimesOndisc. CD-ROM. UMI-Proquest. Oct.

1993.

Newsbank
Wendling, Ted and Dave Davis. "Lethal doses: radiation that kills--dangerous medicine,

deadly mistakes." Plain Dealer. 13 Dec 1992. 1A. Newsbank. CD- ROM. 1997.

WWW Sources

Structure
Author last name, first name (if known). "Full Title of the Work/Page." Full Title of

Complete Work/Site (if applicable). Date of publication or revision (if available). Date

of visit. <http address>.

Article in an Online Encyclopedia
"Fresco," Britannica Online. Vers. 97.1.1. May 1997. Encyclopedia Britannica. 29 June

1997 <http://www.ed.com:180>.

Article in an Online 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/O/e-sources/flanmilt.html>.

Article in an Online Magazine
Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 2 May 1997

<http://www.slate.com/97/Economics.asp>.

Professional Site
Schmidt, Eileen. Emily Dickinson Page. 15 Sept. 1999, Dept. of English, U. of

Wisconsin. 15 Jan. 2000 <http://humanities.uwisconsin.edu/english>.

An Article within a Professional Site (Author Unknown)
"Russian Federation: Chechnya for the Motherland." Amnesty International Online. 1

Dec. 1999. International Secretariat, London. 11 Jan. 2000

<http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/chehnya/index.html>.

A Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph
Evans, Walker. Penny Picture Display. 1936. Museum of Modern Art, New York. 30 June

1999 <http://www.moma.org/collection/photography/pages/evans.penny.html>.

CD-ROMs

Articles from a CD-ROM
Loving, Jerome. "Walt Whitman." The 1998 World Book Network Encyclopedia. Network

Edition. CD-ROM. San Diego: World Book Inc., 1998; New York: IBM Corp., 1998.

"The Chemistry of Air Pollution." Magill's Survey of Science. CD-ROM. 1998 ed.

Pasadena: Salem, 1998.

A Work in an Indeterminate Medium

Use the designation Electronic if you access material via a network and cannot tell whether the work is stored on the central computer's hard drive or on a CD-ROM.

Bartlett, John. Familiar Quotations. 9th ed. Boston: Little, 1901. New York: Columbia U,

Academic Information Systems, 1995. Electronic. Columbia Net, Columbia U. 2 July

1998.

Parenthetical Documentation

When you use another person's words, ideas, or facts in your paper, you must give credit.

Use parenthetical documentation to cite such sources within a document. This is in place of footnotes, which usually appear at the bottom of the page or at the back of the document. Parenthetical documentation should directly follow the quote or idea within the sentence. The full citation for the book will appear in your Works Cited page.

EXAMPLES

When citing an electronic source, use the author AND the shortened form of the article title: (Wilkins, "Poetics and Politics").
If no author is given use the shortened form of the article title: ("Poetics and Politics").

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