Citing
an Internet Source
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Please note that
in these examples, web addresses may appear as hyperlinks.
In your own bibliography, the addresses should NOT
be underlined.
- Individual Web Site:
a single author or group is responsible
for creating the site and all its component pages.
Use this format when you want to cite the entire
website.
- Internet Reference Work:
The web site is divided into sections
or articles, much like a reference book. Use
this format when you want to cite only one part from a larger
web site.
- Internet Database:
An editor or group has collected documents
and articles by different authors and stored them within
an "umbrella" site. The documents have often been
published separately before being collected into the database.
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- About Bradford Style
Individual Web Site: World
Wide Web, Telnet, FTP
1. Author's Name (Last, First)
2. Title of the Whole Page, Underlined or in Italics
3. Date of the Electronic Publication or Last Update
4. Name of any Sponsoring Institution/Organization
5. Date of Access
6. Address or URL, in <angle brackets>
Example:
American Red Cross. Updated 1999.The American
National Red Cross. Accessed 5 Oct. 1999.
<http://www.redcross.org>
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Internet Reference Work: About.com,
Internet Public Library, etc.
1. Author of Article (Last, First)
2. Title of Part, in "quotation marks"
3. Title of Whole PAge, Underlined or in Italics
4. Date of the Electronic Publication or Last Update
5. Name of any Sponsoring Institution/Organization
6. Date of Access
7. Address or URL, in <angle brackets>
Example: Summers,
Robert S. "William McKinley." POTUS: Presidents
of the United States. Updated 1 Mar.1998. Internet Public
Library. Accessed 2 Apr.1998.
<http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/wmckinley.html>
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Internet Database: EBSCO Host,
SIRS, AP Multimedia Archive, etc.
Step A: Make a citation
as if you had the original item.
1. Author or creator of Item (Last, First)
2. Title of Article, in "quotation marks"
3. Title of Whole Wok, Underlined or in Italics
4. Publication information:
Book -- City: Publisher, Date. Pages.
Magazine -- Date: Pages.
Newspaper -- [City} DAte: Page.
Step B: Add information
about the database and when you accessed it.
5. Title of Database, Underlined or in Italics
6. Name of Vendor, Distributor or Computer Network
7. Date of Access
8. Address on <angle brackets>
Notice that for
an online subscription service like EBSCO, indiviual articles
have a very long URL made up of codes and routing numbers.
MLA format does not use these. Use only the
address of the search page.
Example: Peterson,
Scott. "Lessons for Putin in Sub Disaster." Christian
Science Monitor 21 Aug. 2000: 6. EBSCOHost:
MasterFILE Premier.EBSCO. Accessed 23 Aug.2000.
<http://search.epnet.com/>
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E-mail
1. Author of Document
2. Any Title of the Document, in "quotation marks".
3. Description of the Document, which Identifies the Recipient
(e.g., "E-mail to the author")
4. Date of Document
Example: Miller,
Nancy. "Tuesday's Computer Meeting." E-mail to the
author. 10 Jan.2000.
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Bradford-Style
MLA is the standard format for bibliographies
in Bradford High School. We have attempted to simplify
the MLA format in a way that could be understood by students
from grades 5 through 12, without changing the basic concepts
of bibliographic citations. We have based Bradford-Style MLA
on the following sources:
Gibaldi,
Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers,
4th ed. New York: MLA, 1995.
---. MLA Handbook for Writers
of Research Papers, 5th ed. New York: MLA, 1999.
MLA Style. "The
Modern Language Association of America: MLA on the Web."
Updated 19 Dec. 1997. MLA. Accessed 16 Mar. 1998. <http://www.mla.org/main_stl-nf.htm#sources>
MLA Style: Documenting
Sources from the World Wide Web. "Modern Language
Association: MLA Online." Updated 3 May 2000. MLA.
Accessed 23 Aug.2000.
<http://www.mla.org/style/sources.htm>
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