Reid Memorial Library Lewis & Clark Community College When it comes to information accessed through Google, GoogleScholar, Yahoo, and other such digital resources, the rule is include information that is available and don t worry about what is not. Sometimes the latter can be found by removing the end of a web address. Warning: Web-related sources DO NOT have a copy/paste feature. You will need to create the Works Cited entry on your own. Below is information to that end. Note: If underlining appears under a web address (http://xxxx.), highlight it, go to Insert, then Hyperlink, then click the Remove link box. Also, if dates aren t given, use n.d. Art Work MUSEUM If you visit a museum, here s what you need to cite the piece of art: Last name of artist, First name. Title of the Work in Italics. Year. Name of museum, City. Adams, Ansel. Pine Forest in Snow, Yosemite National Park. 1933. St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis. WEB If you view a piece of art online (i.e. Google Images), here s what you need: Last name of artist, First name. Title of the piece of art in quotation marks. Year. Name of the Web Site in Italics. Web. Date of access. Adams, Ansel. Pine Forest in Snow, Yosemite National Park. 1933. St. Louis Art Museum. Web. 12 July 2013. How to cite art work in your paper: Include it as part of the sentence.
Blogs & Facebook Blogs and Facebook do not come with a Cite this in MLA feature, so you will have to create the entry on your own. Below is the information to include. BLOG: Non-Print Sources Author s name (last name first). Title or subject of the post in quotation marks. The name of the blog in italics (if there s no title use Online Posting instead). The publisher of the web site (such as Blogspot; if none is available, use n.p.). Date of the post. Web. Date you accessed the blog. Slater, Dan. A Law Blog Q & A with John Grisham. Law Blog. Wall Street Journal. 27January 2009. Web. 6 June 2011. FACEBOOK: Poster s name as it appears. The whole post in quotations (or the relevant sentence if the post in general is lengthy). Facebook update. Date of post. Web. Date of access. John Grisham. Those who wish to write legal thrillers should be familiar with the law, either through formal education or self-study. Facebook update. 10 June 2010. Web. 12 July 2013. *How to cite blogs and Facebook in your paper: Use author s last name: (Slater).
ebooks from EBSCO One or Two Authors ebooks accessed through EBSCO have formatting options are available just like articles from the databases. Simply click on a title and then look at the right-hand side of the screen for Cite. Click that and when a new window opens in the middle of the screen, scroll down to MLA. You can copy/paste the information. It may look like this after copy/pasting: Theoharis, Athan G. FBI : A Comprehensive Reference Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. ebook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 22 Feb. 2012. It should look like this: Theoharis, Athan G. FBI : A Comprehensive Reference Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. ebook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 22 Feb. 2012. *How to cite in your paper: Author last name and page number (if given): (Theoharis 242) NOTE: If a page number is unavailable, you may use the chapter number instead: (Theoharis, ch. 2) ebooks from EBSCO A Chapter/Essay/Short Story (C/E/SS) This is what you need: Author of C/E/SS. Title of the C/E/SS. Title of the Book in italics. Ed. Editor s name. City of publication: Publisher, Year. Page numbers of C/E/SS. Name of database in italics. Web. Date of access. It may look like this if you use the Cite feature and copy/paste: Hawthorne, Julian. The Lock And Key Library : Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Old Time English. Project Gutenberg, n.d. ebook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 22 Feb. 2012. It should look like this: Dickens, Charles. The Haunted House. The Lock And Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories, Old Time English. Ed. Julian Hawthorne. Project Gutenberg, n.d. ebook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 22 Feb. 2012. *How to cite in your paper: Use author name of the essay/chapter etc., not the book s editor, and page number if given, or chapter number: (Dickens 261) OR (Dickens, ch. 4)
Email These are easy to cite, both on the Works Cited page and in the text of a paper. Here s what you need to know: Last name of person who sent you the email, First name. Subject line information (if available) in quotation marks. Message to the author. Date of the correspondence. E-mail. Rowling, J.K. Character inspirations. Message to the author. 31 July 2012. Email. How to cite it in your paper: Make it part of the sentence. In an email to me, J.K. Rowling explains her inspiration for Fluffy the three-headed dog came from the Greek myth of Cerberus. Interview These are equally easy to reference. Here s what is needed: Last name of person interviewed, First name. Personal interview. Date of Interview. Rowling, J.K. Personal interview. 31 July 2011. How to cite it in your paper: Make it part of the sentence. In an interview with J.K. Rowling.
Kindle, Nook, & Other ebook Versions Citing these versions of an ebook is similar to a book in print form, with only one or two minor adjustments. Below is the information you will need to format these resources correctly. Author last name, First name. Title of the Book in Italics. City of publication: Name of publisher, Copyright year. Medium ofpublication. Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. New York: Scholastic, 2007. Kindle edition. How to cite it in your paper: (Rowling, ch. 12) Online Streaming Videos Database L & C This resource does not have a citation feature, so you need to create the reference information on your own. Here is what you will need: Title of the Film in Italics. Name of the Director or Producer (if available). Name of Production Company. Copyright Year. Web. Alexander Street Videos/Name of Collection in Italics. Roald Dahl in Reading Aloud with Michael Rosen. Teachers TV/UK Department of Education. 2006. Web. Alexander Street Videos/Education in Video. How to cite it in your paper: Make it part of the sentence. In the film Roald Dahl in Reading Aloud with Michael Rosen, Dahl talks about the inspiration behind James and the Giant Peach.
Twitter Non-Print Sources Citing a tweet is similar to citing a blog. Unlike the databases, though, there isn t a friendly format this for me link so you will have to do it on your own. Fortunately, tweets are REALLY easy to cite. See below. Tweeter s name (last name first) followed the username in (parentheses). Include the entire tweet in quotation marks. Date and time of posting in the Day Month Year, time format. The word Tweet. Grafton, Sue (kinseymillhone). W is for Wanted is due out Feb 2013. Stay tuned! 26 June 2012, 3:07p.m. Tweet. How to cite it in your paper: Cite the entire tweet following either of these examples: Sue Grafton announced W is for Wanted is due out Feb 2013. Stay tuned! OR It was announced W is for Wanted is due out Feb 2013. Stay tuned (Grafton). Web Sites Web sites do not have a friendly format this for me link so you will have to do it on your own. Below is what you need to look for and to list in proper order and punctuation. PDF formatted items are digital scans of an original document and thus look like a photocopy. As a result, they will have the original page numbers. HTML formatted documents do not have page numbers (the page 3 of 6 at the top of a printout does not qualify). Author Name(s) if available. Title of the section of the Web Page. Name of Website in italics. Name of Publisher/Sponsoring Institution/Organization (if available; if not, then use n.p.). Date of publication (if available; if not, then use n.d.). Web. Date of Access. Bio. John Grisham: The Official Site. Doubleday. n.d. Web. 21 February 2011. OR 12 & 14 listed below are page # s. Cooper, Susan. 23 John Grisham Titles Launch Today as Random House E-books in North America. John Grisham: The Official Site. Doubleday. 16 March 2010. Web. 21 February 2011. *How to cite in your paper: HTML: ( Bio ) OR (Cooper) PDF: (Cooper 12) OR ( Bio 14)
YouTube YouTube videos do not have a friendly format this for me link so you will have to do it on your own. Below is what you need to look for and to list in proper order and punctuation. Author last name, First name OR video creator s last name, First name OR Poster s username. Title of the video in quotation marks. Media Type. Name of Website in Italics. Name of Web Site s Publisher, date the video was posted/created. Web. Date you accessed the video. BNStudio. John Grisham Exclusive Video Interview. Online video clip. Barnes & Noble. YouTube, 4 April 2008. Web. 6 June 2011. *How to cite it in your paper: Make it part of the sentence. According to BNStudio s YouTube video John Grisham Exclusive Video Interview, Grisham himself describes his writing process.