Citing Electronic Sources: MLA Format  
 

                                                                                                                                        

MAGAZINE, JOURNAL OR NEWSPAPER ARTICLE FROM A LIBRARY ONLINE

       DATABASE

 

Author(s) (if given).  “Title of Article.”  Title of Magazine or Newspaper  Day Month            

 

            Year:              pages.  Name of Database.  Library Name, City, State.  Date of access

“Art of the Harlem Renaissance.”  American Art Review  Mar./Apr. 1998: 132-137.


          ProquestYorktown High School Library, Yorktown Heights, NY.  9 Nov. 2005
 

 

ARTICLE FROM A LIBRARY ONLINE  DATABASE

 

Author(s) (if given).  “Title of Article.”  Name of DatabaseLibrary Name, City, State. 

 

            Date of access

Thomas, Dylan.  “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”  World of Poetry.
           

            Yorktown High School Library, Yorktown Heights, NY.  2 Apr. 2006

 

 

A PAGE ON A WEB SITE: 

 

Author(s) (if given).  “Title of Web Page.”  Name of Web Site or Sponsoring Organization

 

            Date of Posting/Revision (if available).  Date you accessed the site  <URL>. 

 

“Eating Disorders.”  Mayo Clinic.  15 Jan. 2008.  10 Sep. 2008 

 

            <http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/eating-disorders/DS00294 >.

 

 

MAGAZINE, JOURNAL OR NEWSPAPER ARTICLE FROM A WEB SITE:

 

Author(s).  "Title of Article."  Title of Magazine or Newspaper  Day Month Year:  pages.

 

            Date of access  <URL>.

 

Levy, Steven.  “Great Minds, Great Ideas.”  Newsweek  27 May 2002.  8 Aug. 2002

           

             <http://www.msnbc.com/news/75436.asp>                                  .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

ONLINE IMAGES:

 

Author or originator.  "Title or description of image."  Date of access   <URL>.

USGS.  "Map: Major Volcanoes in Ecuador."  10 Oct. 2006

 

<http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Ecuador//map_ecuador_volcanoes.html>. 

 

 

CD-ROM:

 

Author's name (if given).  "Title of article."  Name of Publication.  CD-ROM.

 

            City of publication:  Publisher, date of publication.

"World War II."  Encarta.  CD-ROM.  Seattle:  Microsoft, 2005. 

 

 

FILM OR VIDEO RECORDING:

 

Title.  Director.  Performer(s) (optional).  Distributor.  Year of release.

It’s a Wonderful Life.  Dir. Frank Capra.  Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel

 

            Barrymore.   RKO, 1946.

 

FOR ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES, REFER TO:

Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  6th ed.  New York:

 

            MLA, 2003.  (On reserve in the YHS Library)

 

"MLA Formatting and Style Guide."  The Purdue Online Writing Lab

 

            <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01>.

 

PARENTHETICAL NOTATION:

 

(Author’s last name or “first few words” of title followed by page number if available)

 

            One Author:                           (Erlich 206)

            Multiple Authors:                  (Paoletti and Radki 311)

            No Author:                             (“Medical Marijuana” 45)

 

                                                                                                                                                                     C.  Clark  9/2009