MLA Format Requires (see example):
- Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source
(if given), and, if appropriate, followed by an abbreviation, such as
ed.
- Title of the Source
- Article, poem, short story, or similar short work on the Internet
site (enclosed in quotation marks).
- Title of a book or book-length project (underlined or italics)
- Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant
and if not cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation,
such as Ed.
- Publication information for any print version of the source
- Title of the Internet site (e.g., scholarly project, database, online
periodical, or professional or personal site (underlined or italics)
- Example: John Gower Society Web Site
- Name of the editor of the site
- The editor of the John Gower Society Web
Site is Brian W. Gastle
- If applicable, volume number, issue number, or other identifying number
(such as version number)
- Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting
- The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections,
if they are numbered
- Name of any institution or organization sponsoring the site (if not
cited earlier)
- Western Carolina University sponsors the
John Gower Society Web Site
- Date when the researcher accessed the source
- URL of the source
Example
If you were to cite from Peter Beidler's Introduction, and you accessed
that source on July 1, 2006, your citation would look like this:
Beidler, Peter G. "Introduction" in John Gower’s
Transformation of the Tale of Constance from Nicholas Trevet’s Of
the Noble Lady Constance. Ed. Peter G. Beidler. International
John Gower Society Web Site. Ed. Brian W. Gastle. 4 April, 2006.
Western Carolina University. 1 July 2006 <http://www.johngower.org/scholarship/beidler/intro.html>
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