Transcript Citing Electronic Publications

How to Cite Information
Examples Taken from the MLA
Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers, 6th ed.
Presentation created by Deborah
Spanfelner, Librarian (Update Nov.
2008)
Title
Author
Publisher
City
Date
Publisher/
City
Citation for a Book
Morrison, Toni. Paradise. New York:
Knopf, 1998.
Citing Electronic Publications
Electronic publications or Internet sources are
cited differently from print materials. Often
there is not a page reference on the site. The Web
address must be included. If you found the item in
a library database, you must indicate the name of
the database. A useful site to refer to for how to
cite Internet sources is Purdue University’s OWL
site:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
Types of Sites:
An Entire Internet Site
A Document from an Internet Site
An Entire Online Book
An Article in an Online Periodical
An Article in a Scholarly Journal
A Home page for a Course
A Work from an Online Subscription
Service
An Entire Internet Site:
CNN.com. 2002. Cable News Network. 15
May 2002 <http://www.cnn.com/>.
A Document from an Internet Site:
“This Day in Technology History: August
20.”
History Channel.com. 2002. History
Channel. 14 May 2002
<http://historychannel.com/>. Path:
Technology History; This Day in
Technology History.
An Entire Online Book:
Keats, John. Poetical Works. 1884.
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Ed.
Steven van Leeuwen. 2002. 5 May 2002
<http://bartleby.com/126/>.
An Article in an Online Scholarly Journal:
Chan, Evans. “Postmodernism and Hong
Kong Cinema.” Postmodern Culture 10.3
(2000). Project Muse. 20 May 2002
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/v01
0/ 10.3chan.html>.
A Work from an Online Subscription Service
Daly, Anne E. “The Diet Craze: Setting
the Record Straight on High
Protein, Low- Carbohydrate Diets.”
Diabetes Forecast
55.3 (Mar.
2001): 74- . Health Reference
Center. InfoTrac. Broome Community
Coll. Lib., Binghamton, NY. 22 July
2003 <http://www.galegroup.com/>.
Parenthetical Documentation
Author’s Name in Text:
Freud has established this point (178-80).
Author’s Name in Reference:
“That is why I have laid so much stress on
money and a room of one’s own” (Woolf
108).
Citing Two or More Works by the Same
Author:
(Woolf, A Room 108).
Parenthetical Documentation: Longer Quotes
Virginia Woolf writes in “Reminiscences” about her
family:
Our life was ordered with great simplicity
and regularity. It seems to divide itself into
two large spaces, not crowded with events,
but in some way more exquisitely natural than
any that follow; for our duties were very plain
and our pleasures absolutely appropriate. (28)
Copyright and Plagiarism
• Direct Quote
• Paraphrase
• An Expression Coined by an Author
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