{"id":263,"date":"2018-01-10T08:18:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/keirarmstrong\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2018-01-29T18:10:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T23:10:52","slug":"online-source-citation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/keirarmstrong\/learning-resources\/essay-guidelines\/online-source-citation\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Source Citation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHow do I document sources from the World Wide Web in my works-cited list?\u201d\u00a0MLA Online<\/em>, 10\/17\/00, Modern Language Association of America, 15 Nov. 2001 <http:\/\/www.mla.org\/\u2026>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These guidelines on MLA documentation style are the only ones available on the Internet that are authorized by the\u00a0Modern Language Association<\/a>\u00a0of America.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The MLA guidelines on documenting online sources are explained in detail in the fifth edition of the\u00a0MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers<\/em>\u00a0(1999) and in the second edition of the\u00a0MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing<\/em>\u00a0(1998). These guidelines replace the information in the fourth edition of the\u00a0MLA Handbook<\/em>\u00a0on documenting online databases (\u00a74.9).<\/p>\n

What follows here is a summary of the guidelines that cover the World Wide Web. For the complete MLA recommendations on Web sources, please see one of the books mentioned above.<\/p>\n

Sources on the World Wide Web that students and scholars use in their research include scholarly projects, reference databases, the texts of books, articles in periodicals, and professional and personal sites. Entries in a works-cited list for such sources contain as many items from the list below as are relevant and available. Following this list are sample entries for some common kinds of Web sources.<\/p>\n

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  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\u00a0ed.<\/em>, if appropriate.<\/li>\n
  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\u00a0Online posting<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  3. Title of a book [italicized].<\/li>\n
  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\u00a0Ed.<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Publication information for any print version of the source.<\/li>\n
  6. Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or personal site [italicized]; or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as\u00a0Home page<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  7. Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database (if available).<\/li>\n
  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.<\/li>\n
  9. Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting.<\/li>\n
  10. For a work from a subscription service, the name of the service and\u2014if a library is the subscriber\u2014the name and city (and state abbreviation, if necessary) of the library.<\/li>\n
  11. For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum.<\/li>\n
  12. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are numbered.<\/li>\n
  13. Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the Web site.<\/li>\n
  14. Date when the researcher accessed the source.<\/li>\n
  15. Electronic address, or URL, of the source (in angle brackets); or, for a subscription service, the URL of the service\u2019s main page (if known) or the keyword assigned by the service.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Scholarly Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Victorian Women Writers Project<\/em>. Ed. Perry Willet. Apr. 1997. Indiana Univ. 26 April 1997 <http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~letrs\/vwwp\/>.<\/p>\n

    Professional Site<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Portuguese Language Page<\/em>. Univ. of Chicago. 1 May 1997 <http:\/\/humanities.uchicago.edu\/romance\/port\/>.<\/p>\n

    Personal Site<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Lancashire, Ian. Home page.1 May 1997 <http:\/\/www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080\/~ian\/index.html>.<\/p>\n

    Book<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Nesbit, [E]dith.\u00a0Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism<\/em>. London, 1908.\u00a0Victorian Women Writers Project<\/em>. Ed. Perry Willet. Apr. 1997. Indiana Univ. 26 April 1997 <http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~letrs\/vwwp\/nesbit\/ballsoc.html>.<\/p>\n

    Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Nesbit, [E]dith. \u201cMarching Song.\u201d\u00a0Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism<\/em>. London, 1908.\u00a0Victorian Women Writers Project<\/em>. Ed. Perry Willet. Apr. 1997. Indiana Univ. 26 April 1997 <http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~letrs\/vwwp\/nesbit\/ballsoc.html#p9>.<\/p>\n

    Article in a Reference Database<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u201cFresco.\u201d\u00a0Britannica Online<\/em>. Vers.\u00a097.1.1 Mar. 1997. Encylopaedia Britannica. 29 March 1997 <http:\/\/www.eb.com:180>.<\/p>\n

    Article in a Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Flannagan, Roy. \u201cReflections on Milton and Ariosto.\u201d\u00a0Early Modern Literary Studies<\/em>\u00a02.3 (1996): 16 pars. 22 Feb. 1997 <http:\/\/unixg.ubc.ca:7001\/O\/e-sources\/emls\/02-3\/flanmilt.html>.<\/p>\n

    Article in a Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Landsburg, Steven E. \u201cWho Shall Inherit the Earth?\u201d\u00a0Slate<\/em>\u00a01 May 1997. 2 May 1997 <http:\/\/www.slate.com\/Economics\/97-05-01\/Economics.asp>.<\/p>\n

    Work from a Subscription Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Koretz, Gene. \u201cEconomic Trends: Uh-Oh, Warm Water.\u201d\u00a0Business Week<\/em>\u00a021 July 1997:22. Electric Lib. Sam Barlow High School Lib., Gresham, OR. 17 Oct. 1997 <http:\/\/www.elibrary.com\/>.<\/p>\n

    \u201cTable Tennis.\u201d\u00a0Compton\u2019s Encyclopedia Online<\/em>. Vers. 2.0. 1997. America Online. 4 July 1998. Keyword: Compton\u2019s.<\/p>\n

    Posting to a Discussion List<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Merrian, Joanne. \u201cSpinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre.\u201d Online posting. 30 April 1994. Shaksper: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conf. 27 Aug. 1997 <http:\/\/www.arts.ubc.ca\/english\/iemls\/shak\/MONSTERP_SPINOFF.txt>.<\/p>\n

    In parenthetical references in the text, works on the World Wide Web are cited just like printed works. For any type of source, you must include information in your text that directs readers to the correct entry in the works-cited list (see the\u00a0MLA Handbook<\/em>, \u00a75.2). Web documents generally do not have fixed page numbers or any kind of section numbering. If your source lacks numbering, you have to omit numbers from your parenthetical references.<\/p>\n

    If your source includes fixed page numbers or section numbering (such as numbering of paragraphs), cite the relevant numbers. Give the appropriate abbreviation before the numbers: \u201c(Moulthrop, pars.\u00a019\u201320).\u201d (Pars.<\/em>is the abbreviation for\u00a0paragraphs<\/em>. Common abbreviations are listed in the\u00a0MLA Handbook<\/em>, \u00a76.4.) For a document on the Web, the page numbers of a printout should normally not be cited, because the pagination may vary in different printouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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