CITING ONLINE SOURCES

The following examples cover those sources that meet the criteria as described in the "Web Site Evaluation" for sites that are current, accurate, and are produced by recognized individuals or institutions such as universities and government agencies. In addition, there are examples from the two types of online services currently available in MCPS.*
SOURCE INFORMATION NEEDED FORMATTED EXAMPLE
World Wide Web -Author (person who created the page, if given)
-Title of Web page
-Name of Project (if applicable)
-Editor (if given)
-Information about the web site including the name of the web site, date of the latest update, the sponsoring university or government agency
-Date of access
-URL

Dickinson, Laurie. "Zora Neale Hurston." Voices From the Gaps
12 Sept. 1996 U of Minnesota. 1 June 2011
<http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/hurstonZora.php> 

"The Forty Niners." California History Collection, 
American Memory, Library of Congress. 1 June 2011
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbforty.html> 

Rusche, Harry. "Rupert Brooke, 1887-1915' Lost Poets of the 
Great War Emory University 1 June 2011 < http://english.emory.edu/LostPoets/>
Article in an Online Newspaper -Author (if given)
-Tide of Article
-Name of the newspaper online site
-Date of publication
-Date of access
-URL		 El-Bashir, Tarik. "Indianapolis 500: Wheldon wins after Hildebrand crashes on final turn." washingtonpost.com 29 May 2011. 1 June 2011 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/auto-racing/indianapolis-500-wheldon-wins-after-hildebrand-crashes-on-final-turn/2011/05/29/AGrtfKEH_story.html>
Article in an Online Magazine -Author (if given)
-Title of Article
-Name of the online magazine
-Date of Publication
-Date of Access
-URL		 Piper, Andrew. "The Invisible World Order." Atlantic Unbound
29 July 1998. 1 June 2011 < http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dc980729.htm>
Article in an Online Service based on a Reference Work such as Encyclopedia Britannica or a GaleNet database -Title of Article
-Title of Online Reference
-Date of Publication (if known)
-Publisher
-Date of Access
-URL		 "American Literature: The 20th century: AFTER WORLD
WAR II: Poetry."Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica.
1 June 2011 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/19939/American-literature/42270/The-20th-century>
Article in an Online Periodical Database -Author
-Publication information for print source
-Title of database or product the article is available on
-Name of vendor or publisher (if known)
-Date of Access
-URL

Dreher, Nancy. "The Facts About ... Women and Smoking." Current 
Health 2, April 1995, 16-19. SIRS Discoverer on the Web 1 June 2011<http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%
3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000025661>

*Based on Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1998. (see MLA Web site - http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm#sources)

Prepared by Linda Crump and Marjorie Geldon, ITST, September 1998

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