Online Citation Guidelines

Below are examples of the correct forms of citing online sources:
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Scholarly Project
Jane Austen Information Page. Ed. Henry Churchyard. 6 Sept. 2000. 15 June
2002 http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html.

Information Database
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet. 19 June 2001. Lib. Of Congress,
Washington 18 May 2002 http://thomas.loc.gov/.

Personal Site
Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 28 Mar. 2002. 15 may 2002
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/

Online Book
Keats, John. Poetical Works. 1884. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Ed.
Steven van Leeuwen. 2002. 5 May 2002 http://www.bartleby.com/126/

Online Poem
Nesbit, Edith. “Marching Song.” Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. London, 1908.
Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. May 2000.
Indiana U. 26 June 2002
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html#p9.

Article in a Journal
Dane, Gabrielle. “Reading Ophelia’s Madness.” Exemplaria 10.2 (1998). 22
June 2002 http://web.english.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria/danefram.htm.

Article in a Newspaper
Achenbach, Joel. “America’s River.” Washington Post 5 May 2002. 20 May
2002 < http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13425-2202May1.html>.

Article in a Magazine
Levy, Steven. Great Minds, Great Ideas.” Newsweek 27 May 2002. 20 May 2002
http://www.msnbc.com/news/754336.asp.

Work from a Library Subscription Service
Youakim, Sami. “Work-Related Asthma.” American Family Physician 64 (2001) :
1839-52. Health Reference Center. Gale. Mid-Hudson Cooperative Lib. System,
NY. 12 Jan. 2002 http://www.galegroup.com/.

Work from a Personal Subscription Service
“Table Tennis.” Compton’s Encyclopedia Online. Vers. 2.0. 1997. America Online.
4 July 1998. Keyword: Compton’s.

With help from the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers : 6th Edition