MLA-Style Documentation

Freely-accessible World Wide Web Internet Sources:
More MLA-style Works Cited Models

Short work from a World Wide Web site - MLA Style Works Cited
"Short" works are those that appear in quotation marks in MLA style: articles, poems, and other documents that are not book length. For a short work from a Web site, include as many of the following elements as apply and as are available:

Author's name
Title of the short work--i.e. title of the individual web page--in quotation marks
Date of the short work if given on the individual web page
Title of the site, underlined (or italicized)
Date of publication or last update of the web site.
Sponsor of the site (if not named as the author or in the title of the web site)
Date you accessed the source
The URL in angle brackets

Usually at least some of these elements will not apply or will not be unavailable.
For example, in the following model, no date of publication was available. (The date given is the date on which the researcher accessed the source.)

WITH AUTHOR

Shiva, Vandana. "Bioethics: A Third World Issue." NativeWeb. [n.d.] 24 Oct. 2003
<http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html>.

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

"Media Giants." The Merchants of Cool. 2001. PBS Online. 23 Oct. 2003
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/giants>.

Article from Online Magazine

Levy, Steven. "Great Minds, Great Ideas." Newsweek 27 May 2002. 23 Oct. 2003
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/754336.asp>.

An entire World Wide Web site - MLA Style Works Cited
Begin with the name of the author or corporate author (if known) and the title of the site, underlined (or italicized). Then give the names of any editors, the date of publication or last update, the name of any sponsoring organization, the date of access, and the URL in angle brackets. Provide as much of this information as is available.

WITH AUTHOR

Peterson, Susan Lynn. The Life of Martin Luther. 1999. 23 Oct. 2003

<http://pweb.netcom.com/~supeters/luther.htm>.

CORPORATE (GROUP) AUTHOR

United States Environmental Protection Agency. Values and Functions of Wetlands.

25 May 1999. 23 Oct. 2003 <http://www.epa.gov-owow/wetlands/facts/fact2.html>.

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Margaret Sanger Papers Project. 18 Oct. 2000. History Dept., New York U. 23 Oct. 2003

<http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/>.

WITH EDITOR

Exploring Ancient World Cultures. Ed. Anthony F. Beavers. 1997. U of Evansville. 23 Oct. 2003

<http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm>.

NOTE: If the site has no title, substitute a description, such as "Home page," for the title.
Do not underline the words or put them in quotation marks.

Block, Marylaine. Home page. 5 Mar. 2001. 12 Apr. 2001 <http://www.marylaine.com>.

Subscription-Only (restricted access) Internet Sources
MLA Style Works Cited, cont.

Some online periodical databases - such as EBSCO, LEXIS-NEXIS, Gale Literature Resource Center and InfoTrac - are available only to institutions and individuals who pay to subscribe. COCC Library pays (a lot of money!) to subscribe to such electronic databases to support research and learning at COCC, and access to such COCC Library online resources (typically via password-protection) is restricted to authorized users (e.g. COCC students and staff) - unlike World Wide Web sites/pages freely available to anyone who has an internet browser and who types in the right URL. Therefore, it does little or no good to cite the (usually very lengthy) URL that enabled you (as a privileged COCC student) to search and access subscription-only (restricted access) online database sources in your Works Cited (and Working Bibliography).

Subscription-only (restricted access) databases typically contain collections of articles or excerpts reproduced from print (periodical or book) sources. To cite such sources correctly, you need to:
        (1) identify the correct type of print source (e.g. newspaper, magazine or journal article; chapter or excerpt from a book or reference work) reproduced in the subscription-only database;
        (2) follow the correct MLA model for that type of source (e.g. newspaper, magazine or journal article; chapter or excerpt from a book or reference work), often meaning that you must reformat the publication information given by the database as needed to conform to MLA style for the type of source reprinted in the database;
        (3) end the bibliographical entry by identifying the database, the library and its location, and the date you accessed the database article;
        (4) add any additional information (if available and applicable) that may help in locating the source - e.g. the Article Number, the persistent URL of the home page of the database <encloseURLsinAngleBrackets> and/or identify keyword/s or pathway you used to locate the source.

EXAMPLE: EBSCO JOURNAL ARTICLE:

Fitzgerald, Jill. "How Will Bilingual/ESL Programs in Literacy Change in the Next
Millennium?" Reading Research Quarterly 35.4 (2000). Academic Search Premier.
EBSCO. Central Oregon Community Coll. Lib., Bend, OR. 16 Oct. 2003.

EXAMPLE: LEXIS-NEXIS WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE ARTICLE:

Koretz, Gene. "Economic Trends: Uh-Oh, Warm Water." Business Week 21 July 1997: 22.
Academic Universe: Medical. Lexis-Nexis. Central Oregon Community Coll. Lib., Bend, OR. 16 Oct.
2003.

EXAMPLE - INFOTRAC Journal Article, with Additional information:
persistent <URL> of INFOTRAC Gale Group homepage enclosed in angle brackets.

Youakim, Sami. "Work-Related Asthma." American Family Physician 64 (2001): 1839-1852.
Health Reference Center. InfoTrac. Bergen County Cooperative Lib. System, NJ. 12 Jan.
2002 <http://www.galegroup.com/>.

EXAMPLE - EBSCO JOURNAL ARTICLE, by two authors, with Additional information:
Article Number

Holliday, R. E., and B. K. Hayes. "Dissociating Automatic and Intentional Processes in
       Children's Eyewitness Memory." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 75.1 (2001):
       1-5. Academic Search Premier (A59317972). EBSCO. Central Oregon Community Coll.
       Lib., Bend, OR. 16 Oct. 2003.

PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTION: When you access a work through a personal subscription service such as America Online, give the information about the source, followed by the name of the service, the date of access, and the keyword used to retrieve the source.

EXAMPLE:

Conniff, Richard. "The House That John Built." Smithsonian Feb. 2001. America Online. 11 Mar. 2001.

Keyword: Smithsonian Magazine.