MLA Guide to Citing Electronic Sources

 

*On the actual Works Cited page, all entries are double-spaced.

 

Material found through InfoTrac Search Bank. 

 

Jones, Jeff. “Deciphering Elizabethan English.” Shakespearean Education Journal. April 1998: 34-38. InfoTrac: Expanded Academic ASAP. Online. 2 March 1998.

 

*To cite a full-text retrieved article without original page numbers (reformatted), use same guidelines as above, but use the number of paragraphs instead of page numbers.   

 

Plant, Jessica. “How to Make Your Garden Grow.” The Happy Gardener.  Feb. 1996: 18 par. InfoTrac:General Reference Center. Online. 2 March 1998.

 

For in-text citations for articles without original page numbers, use the paragraph number instead: (Plant par. 5) rather than (Plant 46).

 

Material cited from a World Wide Web Site (home page)

 

Personal Site (home page)

Jones, Joseph. Home page. 13 Oct. 1996. 6 Dec. 1997 <http://www.math.bpu.edu/jjones/fac.htm>.

 

General Web Site (home page)

Daniels, Karl. “The Risks of Internet Shopping.” Consumer News.  24 Feb. 1997. 3 Nov. 1998. <http://web.bus.edu/daniels/www/safety.shop.html>.

 

Moore, Stacey. “Planning a Wedding.” 3 Apr. 1996. 21 Dec. 1997. <www.csbsju.edu/wed/money/cater.html.>

 

Material cited from an Electronic Mail (E-mail) communication

 

E-mail messages should be used with caution and only when the author is sure they are accurate and reliable. 

 

Robinson, John (JROBIN@creigh.neb.edu). E-mail to Robin Johnson (RJJOHNSON@hotmail.com). 5 Oct. 1997.

 

Tautges, Glenray (GTAUTGES@gold.umn.edu). “Who is this Beowulf guy anyway?” E-mail to English Dept., St. John’s University (ENGLSJU@csbsju.edu). 19 Feb. 1996.

 

Material cited from public postings on electronic networks

 

Many times information is posted on an electronic bulletin board or in an unmoderated newsgroup (such as Usenet).  Public postings should be treated with caution when used as sources.

 

 

Dan, Major. “Post-Althusserian Marxism and Post-Structuralist Feminism.” 14 Sept. 1992. Online posting. Women’s Movement Forum, Political Action Section. CompuServe. 3 Feb. 1996.

 

Material accessed through a computer service (Netscape, Prodigy, America Online, etc.), which is also available in printed form. 

Breaking Your Addiction to Tuesday Night Karaoke. St. Joseph: CSB/SJU Counseling Services, 1995. CSB/SJU Online. Online.  Prodigy. 4 Jan. 1996. <http://www.csbsju.edu/COUNS/pamp>.

 

Frisch, Aaron. “Living Loud Under Monastic Silence.” City Pages 30 Oct. 1994: 25. City Pages Online. Online. Netscape. 14 Dec. 1995. <http://www.citypages.com/articles/g32632ed.htm#2001>.

 

Material accessed through a computer service (Netscape, Prodigy, America Online, etc.) in which the printed source has not been specified. 

Opitz, Jane. “Science Experiments in the Coffee Maker: Adding Vitamin B12 to Your Caffeine Diet.” 12 Dec. 1994. Weekly Newsletter of Employers. Online.  Eworld.  13 March 1995.  <http://www.wnoemployers.com.articles/guest.htm#46>.

 

Williams, Andrea. “Reading for Pleasure: Why I Stopped Reading George Eliot and Started Reading Judith Kranz.” St. Paul Pioneer Press Online. Online. America Online. 5 Dec. 1992. <http://www.pioneerpress.com/editorial>.

 

Material published only through the Internet, which does not appear in printed form.

Liss, Joseph. “Economics and English: My Schizophrenic Education.” Campus Online. (13 May 1994): 28 pp. Online. Internet. 16 June 1994.  <http://www.edu.campusol/articles>.

 

Silva, Antoine. “My Electronic Secret Admirer.” University News. 1.01 (1995): n. pag. Online. Internet. 4 Jan. 1996.  <http://www.edu.unews/articles/silva.love>. 

Material from Electronic Texts.  Electronic Texts are literary works and historical documents available through computer networks. 

Just, Cortni. Hats and Other Fashions of the Cold War. London: Oxford UP, 1985. Online. U of Minnesota Lib. 25 Dec. 1994. Internet.

 

Shakespeare, William. Othello. Shakespeare’s Plays: Thirteen Reasons I Will Never Admit to Being a Villain. Ed. Matthew Russell.  Collegeville: Saint John’s UP, 1993. Online. Oxford Text Archive.  15 Nov. 1995. Internet.

 

Struck, Kendra J. A Comprehensive Study of St. John’s University and Extra-Terrestrial Film-Making. New York: Norton, 1991. Online.  CPET. 16 Jan. 1996. Internet.       

 

 

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