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Citing a World Wide Web Site

 Although no single entry will contain all fourteen items of information found below, but all Works Cited entries for Web sources contain the following basic information:

                                Author's name (last name first). Document title. Date of Internet publication. Date of access <URL>.

Samples:

Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 1 Oct.
                                  1999 <http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/ Economics.asp>.
 
Mitchell, Jason P. Letter. "PMLA Letter." 10 May 1997. 1 Nov. 1999
                                  <http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/pmla.htm>.
 

When you document sources from the World Wide Web, the MLA suggests that your Works
Cited entries contain as many items from the following list as are relevant and available:

•  Cited entries contain as many items from the following list as are relevant and available:
•  Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator (if available and relevant), alphabetized by last name and followed by any appropriate abbreviations, such as ed.
• Title of a poem, short story, article, or other short work within a scholarly project, database, or periodical, in quotation marks
• Title of a book, in italics or underlined
• Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of a book (if applicable and if not cited earlier), preceded by any appropriate abbreviation, such as ed.
• Publication information for any print version
• Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or personal site (in italics or underlined), or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as homepage2
• Name of the editor of a scholarly project or database (if known)
• Version number (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume, issue, or other identifying number
• Date of electronic publication or posting or latest update, whichever is most recent (if known)
• Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the Web site
• Date you accessed the source
• URL (in angle brackets)

          To see how to document specific types of Web sources, refer to the examples throughout this section.

 
                          Personal site

                                     Pellegrino, Joseph. Home page. 16 Dec. 1998. 1 Oct. 1999
                                 < http://www.english.eku.edu /pellegrino/personal.htm>.

                          Professional site

                                     Mortimer, Gail. The William Faulkner Society Home Page. 16 Sept. 1999. William
                                 Faulkner Soc. 1 Oct. 1999 <http://www.acad.swarthmore.edu/faulkner>.

                                     NAIC Online. 29 Sept. 1999. National Association of Inventors Corporation. 1 Oct.
                                 1999 <http://www.better-investing.org/>.

                                     U. S. Department of Education (ED) Home Page. 29 Sept. 1999. US Dept. of
                                 Education. 1 Oct. 1999 <http://www.ed.gov/index.html>.

                                     William Faulkner on the Web 7 July 1999. NU of Mississippi. 20 Sept. 1999
                                 <http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/ faulkner.html>.

                         Book

                          An online book may be the electronic text of part or all of a printed book, or a book-length
                          document available only on the Internet (e.g., a work of hyperfiction).

                                     Bird, Isabella L. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York, 1881. Victorian
                                 Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. 27 May 1999. Indiana U. 4 Oct. 1999 <
                                 http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ bird/rocky.html>.

                                     Bryant, Peter J. "The Age of Mammals." Biodiversity and Conservation. 28 Aug.
                                 1999. 4 Oct. 1999 <http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/ ~sustain/bio65/lec02/b65lec02.htm>.

                                     Harnack, Andrew, and Eugene Kleppinger. Preface. Online! A Reference Guide to
                                 Using Internet Sources. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. 5 Jan. 2000.
                                 <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/ online>.

                          Article in an electronic journal (ejournal)

                                     Joyce, Michael. "On the Birthday of the Stranger (in Memory of John Hawkes)."
                                 Evergreen Review 5 Mar. 1999. 12 May 1999
                                 <http://www.evergreenreview.com/102/evexcite/joyce/nojoyce.html>.

                                     Wysocki, Anne Frances. "Monitoring Order: Visual Desire, the Organization of Web
                                 Pages, and Teach the Rules of Design." Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in
                                 Webbed Environments 3.2 (1998). 21 Oct. 1999
                                 <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.2/features/wysocki/mOrder0.html>.

                          Article in an electronic magazine (ezine)

                                     Adler, Jerry. "Ghost of Everest." Newsweek 17 May 1999. 19 May 1999
                                 <http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/issue/20_99a/printed/int/socu/ so0120_1.htm>.

                          Newspaper article

                                     Wren, Christopher. "A Body on Mt. Everest, a Mystery Half-Solved." New York
                                 Times on the Web 5 May 1999. 13 May 1999
                                 <http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+
                                 site+87604+0+wAAA+%22a%7Ebody%7Eon%7Emt.%7Eeverest%22>.

                          Review

                                     1. Michael Parfit, review of The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, by Anatoli
                                 Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt, New York Times on the Web 7 Dec. 1997, 4 Oct.
                                 1999 <http://search. nytimes.com/ books/97/12/07/reviews/971207.07parfitt.html>.

                          Editorial

                                     "Public Should Try Revised Student Achievement Test." Editorial. Lexington
                                 Herald-Leader 13 Apr. 1999. 4 Oct. 1999
                                 <http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/041399/
                                 editorialdocs/413test-1.htm>.

                          Letter to the editor

                                     Gray, Jeremy. Letter. Lexington Herald-Leader. 7 May 1999. 7 May 1999
                                 <http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/
                                 050799/lettersdocs/507letters.htm>.

                          Government publication

                                     Bush, George. "Principles of Ethical Conduct for Government Officers and
                                 Employees." Executive Order 12674 of April 12, 1989 (as modified by E. O. 12731).
                                 Part 1. 26 Aug. 1997. 18 Nov. 1997 <http://www.usoge.gov/exorders/eo12674.html>.

                          Scholarly project or information database

                                     Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. Ed. Laura E. Hunt and William
                                 Barek. May 1998. U of Toronto. 11 May 1999
                                 <http://CITD.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA/crrs/index.html>.

                                     The Internet Movie Database. May 1999. Internet Movie Database Ltd. 11 May
                                 1999 <http://us.imdb.com>.

                          Short text within a larger project or database

                                     Whitman, Walt. "Beat! Beat! Drums!" Project Bartleby Archive. Ed. Steven Van
                                 Leeuwen. May 1998. Columbia U. 11 May 1999
                                 <http://www.bartleby.com/142/112.html>.

                          Other Web sources

                          When documenting other Web sourcesófor example, an audio or film clip, a map, or a
                          paintingóprovide a descriptive phrase (e.g., map) if needed.

                                     di Bondone, Giotto. The Morning of Christ. WebMuseum, Paris. 22 Oct. 1995. 1
                                 June 1999 <http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/
                                 giotto/mourning-christ/mourning-christ.jpg>.

                                     "Methuen, Massachusetts." Map. U.S. Gazeteer. US Census Bureau. 4 Oct. 1999
                                 <http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer>.

 
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