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Citing Electronic Sources - MLA Style
General guidelines
Your entries should be double spaced within and between citations. Put them in alphabetical order by author's last name, or if no author is listed, lead off with the title. Use hanging indents. The following are sample entries for some common kinds of electronic sources.
Journal, periodical, or newspaper article from a propriety database such as EBSCOhost
Author. "Title of article." Periodical title volume number. issue. Date of publication: Pages.
Database name. Name of service. Name of subscribing library. Date of access <URL>.
Jaeger, William K. "Optimizing Environmental Taxation from Society's Perspective."
American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86.3 (Aug. 2004): 805-812. Business
Source Elite. EBSCOhost. Elizabethtown College Library. 25 Aug. 2005
<http:web16.ebscohost.com>.
Web Site (personal, scholarly project, or professional)
Author or editor, if known. Title of site (in quotations if it is one page within a larger site;
underlined if it is the parent site). Date of publication if available. Name of sponsoring
organization. Date retrieved <URL>.
Willett, Perry, ed. Victorian Women Writers Project. Apr. 1997. Indiana University.
26 June 1997 <http://www.indiana,edu~letrs/vwwp/>.
Electronic journal or newsletter
Author, if known. "Title of article." Title of journal volume. Issue. (Date): Pages or
paragraphs only if they are numbered in the sources. Access date <URL>.
Flannagan, Roy. "Reflections on Milton and Ariosto." Early Modern Literary Studies 2.3
(1996): 16 pars. 22 Feb. 1997 <http://www.shu.uk/emls/02-3/flanmilt.html>.
Encyclopedia or other reference database
Author, if known. "Title of article." Title of encyclopedia. Date. Name of electronic
publication. Date of access <URL>.
"Ho Chi Minh." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2004. Britannica.com 5 Dec. 2005
<http://www.britannica.com>.
Electronic book, pamphlet, poem, etc.
Author. "Title of essay, poem, etc." Title of complete work. Place of print publication, date
of print publication. Name of sponsoring organization. Date of electronic updating.
Access date <URL>.
Nesbit, Edith. Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. London, 1908. Victorian Women Writers
Project. 17 Sept. 1996. Indiana University. 20 Dec. 2003 (http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/
vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html#p9>.
Posting to a discussion list
Name of person posting. "Title of posting." Online posting. Date of posting. Name of
discussion list. Access date (URL>.
Gorfian, P. "Scene for Three." Online posting. 24 August 2004. Shaksper: The Global
Electronic Shakespeare Conference. 25 Aug. 2005
<http://www.shakesper/net.archives/2004/1586.html>.
Video Recording or DVD
Title. Director. Performers. Year of original release. Videocassette or DVD. Distributor,
year.Eleni. Dir. Peter Yates. Perf. Kate Nelligan and John Malkovich. 1986. Videocassette.
Sony Home Entertainment, 1993.Sound Recording
Performer or conductor. "Specific song." Title of recording. Recording date if different
from release date. Audiocassette (Note: if you are citing a compact disc, you may
leave off that information from the citation). Manufacturer, release date.Hall, Jim. "Two's Blues." Concierto. Rec. 23 April 1975. Sony Music, 1997.
Citation guides
A Research Guide for Students - MLA Style
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York:
The Modern Language Association of America, 2003 . (on permanent reserve at
the Library's Circulation Desk)
For citing paper sources, see Citing Paper Sources - MLA Style
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