Basic Format for Electronic Source Citations:

In general, a Works Cited entry for an electronic resource can consist of the following areas (Gibaldi 208):

Author's name. "Title of the document." Information about the print publication. Information about

the electronic publication. Access information.

1. Name of author, editor, compiler or translator (reversed for alphabetizing; abbreviations (ed., comp., or trans.) as needed)
2. Title of the article, essay, short story, poem, other short work within a scholarly project, database, or periodical (in quotation marks); or the title of a posting to a discussion list or forum (from the subject line of the post, in quotation marks), followed by the description (such as Online posting)
3. Title of the book (underlined)
4. Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if not already cited above); using abbreviations (ed., comp., or trans.)
5. Publication information for any print version of the source
6. Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or personal site (underlined); if the professional or personal site does not have a title, use a description (such as Home page)
7. Name of the editor of the site (if available)
8. Version number of the source (if not already a part of the title of the source); for journals; the volume number, issue number, or other identifying number (Part 1, etc.)
9. Date of electronic publication, posting, or most recent update
10. For a subscription service, the name of the service; if a library (or a library consortium) subscribes to that service, the name and city (and, if necessary, the state abbreviation) of the library/subscriber
11. The name of the discussion list or forum
12. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are numbered
13. Name of the institution or organization associated with the Web site
14. Date the source was accessed by the researcher (followed by a period)
15. URL of the source, in angle brackets(<>); if the URL is lengthy, use the URL of the site's search page.  If the site is from a personal subscription service (such as America Online), use the URL of the main page of the service (if known), followed by the keyword assigned by the service (preceded by the word Keyword and a colon [:]), or the sequence of links used to access the source (preceded by the word Path and a colon [:]; use a semicolon (;) to separate the names of the links (Gibaldi 213, 230))

When typing a URL address in some word processing programs, the angle brackets (<>) may cause the text to be automatically converted to a hyperlink.  You can avoid this by either using two sets of angle brackets, or by consulting the Help file for the word processing program for instructions on removing a hyperlink from the text.

Web Site:

A citation entry for an entire personal web site will have the following format:

Name of Creator. Title of Site. Date of creation or latest revision. Date of access <URL of Site>.

Hughes, Tracey. Tracey Hughes's Genealogy Home Page. 27 May 2003.  13 June 2003

<http://www.geocities.com/blk3953/>.

1. Title of site (underlined)
2. Name of editor of the site (if available; First Name Last Name format)
3. Electronic publication information (version number (if relevant); date of electronic publication/latest update (followed by a period); name of affiliated institution or organization)
4. Date of access and URL of site

MLA Works Cited Examples. Ed. Tracey Hughes. 18 June 2003.  James E. Lovan Lib., DeVry U.,

Kansas City. 19 June 2003 <http://library.kc.devry.edu/mla/mlaindex.html>.

Article from a Web Site:

A citation entry for an article from a web site will have the following format:

Author(s). "Article Title." Name of web site. Date of posting/revision. Name of affiliated institution

or organization. Date of access <URL of site>.

"American Library Association (ALA) Welcomes Introduction of Surveillance Oversight and

Disclosure Act Today in House of Representatives." American Library Association (ALA)

News. 11 June 2003. ALA. 19 June 2003 <http://www.ala.org/

Template.cfm?Section=News>.

Article from an Online Journal or Magazine:

The format for online journal and magazine articles will be similar to the format for their print article counterparts, with additional information included for the electronic source.  A typical citation entry for such articles can include the following information (Gibaldi 186):

1. Author's name (if available)
2. Title of the work (in quotation marks)
3. Name of the periodical (underlined)
4. Volume and/or issue number(s) (for journals)
5. Date of publication (year only for journals; day month & year for magazines)
6. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections (if numbered or available)
7. Date of access
8. URL of site

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Magazine Day Month Year: Pages/Paragraphs.  Date of access

<URL of magazine site>.

Author(s).  "Title of Article."  Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): Pages/Paragraphs.

Date of access <URL of journal site>.

Melzer, Daniel and Pavel Zemliansky."  Research Writing in First-Year Composition and Across

Disciplines: Assignments, Attitudes, and Student Performance."  Kairos 8.1 (2003). 

30 June 2003 <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/8.1/binder.html?features/

melzer/kairosfront.htm>.

Article from a Subscription Database:

A citation entry for an article from a subscription database will have the following format:

For magazines:

Author(s).  "Title of Article."  Title of Magazine Day Month Year: Pages. Name of database. Name of

service. Name and location of subscribing library. Date of access <URL of site>.

Author(s). "Title of Article."  Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): Pages. Name of database.

Name of service. Name and location of subscribing library. Date of access <URL of site>.

Poock, Michael. "African American Graduate Enrollment: The Impact of Online Applications." 

College Student Affairs Journal 20.2 (2001): 72-81. ProQuest Education Complete.

ProQuest.  James E. Lovan Lib., DeVry U., Kansas City, MO.  30 June 2003

<http://www.umi.com/proquest>.

Iheagwara, Charles, Andrew Blyth, and Mukesh Singhal.  "A Comparative Experimental Evaluation

Study of Intrusion Detection System Performance in a Gigabit Environment." Journal of

Computer Security 11.1 (2003): 1-33. Computer Source.  EBSCOhost.  James E. Lovan

Lib., DeVry U., Kansas City, MO.  8 July 2003 <http://search.epnet.com>.

E-Book:

When preparing a Works Cited entry for an electronic book (e-book), use the basic format for printed book entries, along with additional information for the online source of the e-book.  The following checklist highlights the kind of information to be included in the citation entry for an e-book (Gibaldi 218-19; "Citing eBooks").  If all of the information is not available, use the available information to create the entry:

1. Author's name (if the author is the editor, compiler, or translator, list their name followed by ed., comp., or trans.)
2. Title of the book (underlined)
3. Name of editor, compiler, or translator (if relevant)
4. Print publication information, if available (publication place, publisher and date)
5. Title of site (underlined)
6. Electronic version publication information, if available (editor of the site, version number, date of the electronic publication and the name of the affiliated institution or organization)
7. Date the source was accessed by the researcher
8. URL for book

Jenkins, Michael S.  Abstract Data Types in Java.  New York: McGraw, 1998.  netLibrary.  7 July 2003

<http://www.netlibrary.com>.

Kent, Stephen T. and Lynette I. Millett, eds. Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens

of Privacy.  Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2003.  National Academies. 

Press. Prepublication version. 23 June 2003 <http://www.nap.edu/books/

0309088968/html/>.