Documenting Electronic Source Material

WWW Sites (World Wide Web)

        1.Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator, reversed for alphabetizing and
          followed by an abbreviation such as ed., trans., if appropriate
        2.Title of the article, poem, short story with the scholarly project, database, periodical;
          in quotation marks, followed by the description Online posting
        3.Title of a book (underlined)
        4.Name of the editor, compliler, translator, if not cited earlier
        5.Publication information for any print version of this resource (if such a thing exists)
        6.Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical or professional or personal site
          (underlined); or, for a site with no title, a description such as Home page
        7.Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database (if available)
        8.Version number of the source (If not part of the title) or other identifying number
        9.Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting
       10.Page numbers or the number of paragraphs or of other numbered sections of the
          material (if any)
       11.Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the web site
       12.Date when the researcher found access to this resource
       13.Electronic address, or URL, of the resource (in <angle brackets>). It is no longer
          considered necessary to include the protocol (http://) for a WWW download, since
          most browsers will work without including that protocol. If possible, however, show
          the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the web-site in its entirely without break or
          inappropriate hyphens at line-endings and without spaces. (Provide the URL its own
          line if necessary.)
          <webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar/verbs.htm#passive>
          Note, also, that spelling and, sometimes, even decisions about which case to use can
          be critically important in reporting URLs.

Examples:
 

Scholarly Project

          C. Fray and Lisa A. Spar. 1996. Yale Law School. 2 Dec. 1997

          <www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/artconf.htm>.
 

     Professional Site

         2 Dec. 1997 <webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm>.
 

     Personal Site

          <webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/staff/jascot/jascot.htm>

CD-ROM

Databases on CD-ROM

          Works Cited

     Angier, Natalie. "Chemists Learn Why Vegetables are Good for You." New York

         Times 13 Apr. 1993, late ed.: C1. New York Times Ondisc. CD-ROM.

         UMI-Proquest. Oct. 1993.

     If the material on the CD-ROM does not exist in a printed version, use the following model:

          Works Cited

     "U.S. Population by Age: Urban and Urbanized Areas." 1990 U.S. Census of Population

         and Housing. CD-ROM. US Bureau of the Census. 1990.

     For a nonperiodical publication on CD-ROM (that is, material that is published one time,
     without obvious plans for periodic updating):

          Works Cited

     Orchestra. CD-ROM. Burbank: Warner New Media. 1992.

          Works Cited

     "Albatross." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. CD-ROM. Oxford: Oxford

         UP, 1992.

     If you cannot find some of the information required for a CD-ROM citation -- for example,
     the city and name of the publisher -- cite what is available.

For further examples and more detailed information go to
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla.htm