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MLA: Online and Nonprint Sources

Citations for electronic resources are, by and large, the same as for their print equivalents, with the addition of subscription information for databases, access dates, and URLs. Once again, examples are presented here single-spaced for clarity, but should appear double-spaced in a works-cited page.

Website (view detail)

Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 April 1997. <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>.

Course Home Page (view detail)

Haas, Stephanie. Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications. Course Home Page. Jan.-May 2007. School of Information and Library Science, U. of NC at Chapel Hill. 25 July 2007 <http://www.ils.unc.edu/~stephani/dbsp07/home.html>

Newspaper Article without an Author, Retrieved from an Online Database (view detail)

"Gardening Experts Give Insights on Plants that Grow Well Here." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 28 April 2002. LexisNexis Academic. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Academic Affairs Library. 15 Oct. 2002. <http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/description.php?EIDID=12>.

Full-text Article, Retrieved from an Online Database (view detail)

Reider, Noriko T. "The Appeal of Kaidan Tales of the Strange." Asian Folklore Studies. 59.2 (2000): 265-284. Academic Search Elite. EbscoHost. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Academic Affairs Library. 6 Feb. 2002 <http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/description.php?EIDID=74>.

Article from a Scholarly Journal (Online) (view detail)

Windholz, Anne M. "An Emigrant and a Gentleman: Imperial Masculinity, British Magazines, and the Colony That Got Away." Victorian Studies 42.4 (1999/2000): 631-58. Project Muse. 27 Feb. 2002 <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/v042/42.4windholz.pdf>.

Art (Photo of an Image) (view detail)

Cassatt, Mary. Mother and Child. Wichita Art Museum. American Painting: 1560-1913. By John Pearce. New York: McGraw, 1964. Slide 22.

Motion Picture (view detail)

Provide the title of the film, the director, the film's distribution company, and the year of release. Between the title and the distributor you may also list other parties that are relevant to your paper or that will help with identification of the film, including screenwriters, actors, producers, etc.

Gigli. Dir. Martin Brest. Screenplay by Martin Brest. Perf. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, and Christopher Walken. Columbia, 2003.
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