Citing+Electronic+Sources


 * __Creating Citations for Electronic Sources__**

For more particular situations than the ones listed below go to OWL Purdue MLA Works Cited: Electronic Sources (Web Publications).

*Because web-based publications are dynamic their citations include an __**access date**__, the day you collected information from the web source.*

__**Online Database: Article from a Scholarly Journal**__ **Model**:

Last Name, First Name. "Title." //Name of Original Source// Volume #. Issue # (Year of Publication): Page Span. //Name of Database//. Medium of Publication. Access Date.

**Example**:

Smith, John. "Portrayals of Macbeth: 1600-1650." //Shakespeare Quarterly// 12.4 (2002): 52-73. //Gale Virtual Reference Library//. Web. 26 Nov. 2011.

__**Online Database: Article from a Reference Source**__
 * Model ** :

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." //Title of Reference Source//. Ed. Name of Editor. # ed. Vol. #. Place of Publication: Name of Publisher, Copyright. Page Span. //Name of Database//. Medium of Publication. Date of Access.

**Example**:

Smith, Jane. "Causes of Heart Disease." //Encyclopedia of Cardiac Medicine//. Ed. Susan White. 3rd ed. Vol. 4. Austin: Gale, 2009. 231-236. //Gale Virtual Reference Library.// Web. 27 Nov. 2011.

__**An Entire Website**__

**Model**:
Last Name, First Name (if available). //Name of Website//. Version Number (if available). Name of Institution Sponsoring the Website, Date of Creation (if available). Medium of Publication. Date of Access.


 * *(If there is no sponsor or publisher write n.p. If there is no date of creation identified write n.d.)* **

**Example**:

//American Heart Association: Learn and Live//. American Heart Association, n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2011.

__**A Page on a Website**__ **Model**:

Last Name, First Name. "Title." //Name of Website.// Sponsoring Organization, Date of Creation. Medium of Publication. Date of Access.

**Example**:

"The Symptoms of Heart Disease." //American Heart Association: Learn and Live//. American Heart Association, n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2011.