Writing a Paper for Me

1. An item from an Internet website. In this case, the author is named and the organization responsible for the site is identified.

MLA still uses underlining for titles of long works rather than italics. Go figure. I personally do not care which you use, but be aware of the difference between long works that get underlined or italicized (books, plays, periodicals, long poems) and short ones that get put in quotation marks (short poems, short stories, articles within periodicals, book chapters, etc.)

Examples:

¹ Jonathan Feeny, “Construction of the CPR,” Canadian History Matrix, ed. Emily Black, May 2001, University of Alberta, 23 Jan. 2002 http://www.ualberta.canhismx/cprx.

Any further footnotes to this site would be in short form:

⁴ Feeny.

Compare this with a bibliograph entry: Bibliography and Works Cited entries in MLA format are not numbered. Theya re placed inalphabetical order and have handing indents (usually +5 spaces). This can be a bit of a pain when you are creating web pages, which more usually are aligned evenly on the left.

Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Claire C. Moody. 1999. Indiana State
University. 2 Feb. 2002 http://www.indianasu.edu/ eng/vwwpro.

Note that the foot- or endnote has an indented format, while the bibliography entry is done in hanging indent form. The first date (May 2001 in the Feeny, 1999 in Victorian) is the date published. The second date (23 Jan 2002, 2 Feb. 2002) are the dates these were discovered by the author of the piece we are reading.

I do not use < or > format around the web address, though MLA (inexplicably to my mind) continues to do so. Why to I leave them off?. If I were to do so interspersed with html code, there is a good chance it would go live. And, it could also cause problems if a reader tried to copy and paste it onto a browser's address line in order to go directly to the source.

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2. An anonymous Internet item with no organization identified. Open with the article’s heading, followed by the title of the website and the name of the site editor.

“Women from Canada’s Past,” Women in History, ed. Sheila Trask, 17 Dec. 2001 http://www .niagrara.com/~merrwill.

Further footnotes to this site: ⁵“Women from Canada’s Past.”

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II. THE INTERNET (generic)

3. Item from an Internet database

³World Flag Database, ed. Graham Bantram, 3 Jan. 2002, The Flag Institute, 27 Jan. 2002 http://www.flags.net.

Further footnotes to this site: ⁶ World Flag Database.

4. Other Web Sources

Item from an Internet encyclopedia

⁷”Armenia,” Britannica Online, 28 Feb. 2002 http://search.eb.com.

5. Article from an Internet magazine (following the magazine title, give the issue date, then downloading date and address)

⁸ Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the RFK Assassination,” Probe Apr. 1999, 20 Mar. 2002 http://www .webcom.com/ctha/pr398-rfk.html.

6. Article from an Internet journal(following the journal title, give the volume and issue numbers and the year, then downloading date and address)

⁹ Elizabeth B. Gianelli, “The Legacy of the Crusaders,” Journal of Medieval History 31.8 (2001), 6 Apr. 2002 http://www.jomh.com/bkis/v31-lc.html.

7. Item originally from a periodical, accessed through a library’s Internet subscription service

¹⁰ David Levine, “Learning to Listen,” Early Education May 2000: 76-82, ProQuest, Dawson Library, Montreal, 2 Mar. 2002 http://www.umi.com/proquest.

III. Other Electronic Sources

8. Items from a CD or DVD

¹¹“Oedipus Complex,” PsychoPrimer, CD-ROM, vers. 3:1 (Miami: Brainworks, 1999).

9. Article from a CD or DVD encyclopedia

¹²“Afghanistan,” Encarta, CD-ROM, 2002 Standard vers.

10. Film (director is always named; performers, producer, etc. may also be included)

¹³ Schindler’s List, dir. Steven Spielberg, perf. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley videocassette, Universal Pictures, 1993.

11. Television or radio program (writer, narrator, director, or performers may be named, according to the nature of the program)

¹⁴ “Ecology: A Delicate Balance,” The Nature of Things, narr. David Suzuki,
CBC, 10 Nov. 2001.

2002; Last revised July 14, 2008
Dr. Bonnie Duncan
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English Department
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