WOODSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL

Sample Works Cited Entries (MLA Style)

ELECTRONIC SOURCES

WWW SOURCES

NOTE: The date before the address is the date you viewed the site.

Online Source of Full Text Articles (Database) (e.g., EBSCOhost, SIRS) If a URL is available for the home page of the service, include it. DO NOT include the long address for the specific article.

Anderson, J. "Keats in Harlem." New Republic 204.14 (8 Apr. 1991): p12-16 Online.

MasterFILE Premier. Woodstown High School Library. 17 Dec. 2007.

<http://www.ebscohost.com>

"Update: Global Warming." Issues & Controversies On File 13 Apr. 2007. Issues & Controversies

@ FACTS.com. Facts On File News Services. 17 Dec. 2007 <http://www.2facts.com>

Article in an online journal
Stern, S. Alan. “Journey to the Farthest Planet.” Scientific American. (May, 2002): n. pag. 17 Dec. 2007

<www.sciam.com/2002/0502issue/0502stern.html>.

Professional Site

Guide to Grammar and Writing. Capital Community-Technical College. 17 Dec. 2007

<webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm>.

Personal Site
Jascot, John. Home page. 17 Dec. 2007 <webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/staff/jascot/jascot.htm>.

Online encyclopedia article

Ketcham, Ralph. "Franklin, Benjamin." Encyclopedia Americana. 2007. Grolier Online. 17 Dec. 2007

<http://ea.grolier.com>.

Scholarly Project
The Avalon Project: Articles of Confederation, 1781. Co-Directors William C. Fray and Lisa A. Spar. 1996.

Yale Law School. 17 Dec. 2007. <www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/artconf.htm>.

Book published online
Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago, 1903. Project Bartleby. Ed. Steven van Leeuwen.

Dec. 1995. Columbia U. 17 Dec. 2007 <www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/dubois/>.

Poem
Dunbar, William. "Done Is the Battle.” The Poems of William Dunbar Ed. James Kinsley. Clarendon

Press, New York. 1979. University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center. Ed. David Seaman. Jan. 1994. U. of Virginia. 17 Dec. 2007. <etext.lib.virginia.edu>.

PRINT SOURCES

BOOK (one author)

Pepin, Ronald E. Literature of Satire in the Twelfth Century. Lewiston: Edwin

Mellen Press, 1988.

BOOK (multiple authors)

Raffer, Bernard C., Richard Freidman, and Robert A. Baron. New York in Crisis. New York: Harper, 1986.

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Wolkomir, Richard. "Charting the Terrain of Touch." Smithsonian June 2000: 38-48.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

Huffstutter, P.J. "Music Rights Get Tangled on the Web." The Hartford Courant

31 May 2000: A1+.

ESSAY OR ARTICLE IN A COLLECTION OR ANTHOLOGY

Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. “Jane Eyre in Search of Her Story” Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Ed. Harold

Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 97-112.

ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK

Wolke, Robert L. “Radiation.” Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1996.

PAMPHLET
New Jersey Historical Commission. A Guide to the Underground Railroad in New Jersey. Trenton, NJ,

2002.

NOTES ON ALL ENTRIES:

When there is no author given, begin with the title.

Titles of books, magazines and journals can either be in italics or underlined.

VIDEO / DVD

Creation vs. Evolution: Battle of the Classroom. Videocassette. Dir. Ryall Wilson, PBS Video, 1982.

58 min.

[ In the case of a DVD, replace “Videocassette” with “DVD” ]

INTERVIEW

Jones, Robert. Personal Interview. 14 Feb. 2000.