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MLA Style - How to cite online articles & e-books

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Warning:  Citation style for online sources is continually evolving.  Consult your instructor in choosing the appropriate style and for further guidance.

MLA format for full-text magazine or journals articles

Author's name.  "Title of the Article."  Original Source of Article Date of original source: page numbers.  Name of the Database
            Used.  Name of the Service.  Name of Library or Library System, City, State Abbreviation.  Date of access <URL of
         service's homepage>.
Gale example:
Prentice, David A. and William Saunders.  "Therapeutic Cloning to Obtain Embryonic Stem Cells Is Immoral."  Opposing
            Viewpoints: Stem Cells.   Ed. Jacqueline Langwith.  Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007 .  Opposing Viewpoints Resource 
            Center.  Gale.  Southwest Virginia Community College Library, Richlands, VA.  8 Aug. 2008 
            <http://find.galegroup.com.ezprozy.vccs.edu>.
EBSCOhost example:
Black, David.  "Sex, Death and Ronald McDonald:  On the Road During the Era of Greatest Peril for the One Indispensable
            American Show."  American Heritage 47.5 (1996): 78-90.  America: History & Life.  EBSCO.  Southwest Virginia
            Community College Library, Richlands, VA.  1 Aug. 2008 <http://search.ebscohost.com>.
CQ Researcher report example: [includes volume number. issue number (year)]
Hatch, David.  "Drug Company Ethics."  CQ Researcher  13.22 (2003): 521-544. CQ Researcher Online.  CQ Press.  Southwest
            Virginia Community College Library, Richlands, VA.  1 Aug. 2008 <http://library.cqpress.com>.
For more detail on citing articles and reports from Gale, EBSCOhost, and CQ Researcher, look at the "How to Cite" links or the "Help" files within the database.

MLA format for electronic books
Author.  Title in italics or underlined.  Publication place (print):  Publisher (print), Publication date (print). Title of site in italics or
            underlined.  Editor or site or project.  Publication date (electronic).  Name of the institution or organizations sponsoring
         the site.  Date accessed (unique for each user).   <URL in angle brackets>.
NetLibrary eBook example:
 Zeinert, Karen.  Those Courageous Women of the Civil War  BrookField, CT: Millbrook Press, 1998.  NetLibrary.  2000. 1 Aug.
            2008.  <http://www.NetLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=action=summary&v=1&bookid=28948>.
For more information on how to cite netLibrary eBooks, see go to the netLibrary page in this handbook.
Note:
Some of the databases provide ready-made citations for you within the articles.