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CITING ELECTRONIC SOURCES

Citing an Online Professional or Personal Web Site

Author's name, if given.  "Title of work within databases, if given."  Title of the website or database.

Name of the editor of project, site or database, if given.  (Electronic publication info)  Date of

electronic publication or latest update.  Name of sponsoring institution or organization, if given.

Date of access <Web address>. See MLA 6th Edition 5.9

Citing Web Sites & Multimedia

Internet

Hoffmann, Heinrich. "Struwwelpeter." Trans. Mark Twain. Nineteenth-Century German Stories. Ed. Robert

Godwin-Jones. 22 Feb. 1999. Foreign Lang. Dept., Virginia Commonwealth U. 10 Jan. 2002

<http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/twpete.html>.

Romance Languages and Literatures Home Page. 1 Jan. 1997. Dept. of Romance Langs. and Lits., U of Chicago.

8 July 1998 <http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/>.

Article

"City Profile: San Francisco." CNN.com. 2002. Cable News Network. 14 May 2002 <http://www.cnn.com/

TRAVEL/atevo/city/SanFrancisco/intro.html>.

Film Clip

Murnau, F. W., dir. Nosferatu. 1922. The Sync . 16 June 2002 <http://www.thesync.com/ram/nosferatu.ram>.

Painting / Photograph

Evans, Walker. Penny Picture Display. 1936. Museum of Mod. Art, New York. 30 May 2002

<http://www.moma.org/collection/photography/pages/evans.penny.html>.

Sound Clip

McFerrin, Bobby. "Kalimba Suite." Beyond Words. Blue Note, 2002. 21 May 2002 <http://www.liquid.com/promo/

fulfill?key=3e9d38799614>.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Americanism." 1920. American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the

1920 Election. 1996. American Memory. Lib. of Congress, Washington. 19 Mar. 2002

<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/mbrs/nforum/9000024.ram>.

Video

It's a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas

Mitchell. 1946. DVD. Republic, 2001.

America Online

"Cloning." BioTech's Life and Science Dictionary. 30 June 1998. Indiana U. America Online. 4 July 1998 Path:

Research and Learning; Science; Biology; Biotechnology Dictionary.

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Citing Alabama Virtual Library Databases

AccessScience

Klock, Benny L. "Optical Telescope." AccessScience. 1999. McGraw-Hill. Alabama Virtual Library. 29 Aug. 2000

<http://www.avl.lib.al.us/databases/>.

EBSCOhost - Popular Magazine

Mudore, Constance Faye.  “Does TV Violence Kill?“  Current Health 2  February 2000:  24-26. MAS

FullTEXT Ultra.  EBSCO.  Alabama Virtual Library.  12 March 2000 <http://www.avl.lib.al.us/

databases/>

EBSCOhost - Scholarly Journal

Vickery, Laurie. "The Politics of Abuse: The Traumatized Child in Toni Morrison and Marguerite Duras."

Mosaic 29.2 (1996): 91-109. Academic SearchElite. EBSCO. Alabama Virtual Library.

12 Jan. 2001 <http://www.avl.lib.al.us/databases/>.

InfoTrac Student Edition

Kehl, D. G. "Writing the Long Desire: The Foundation of Shensucht in The Great Gatsby and Look Homeward,

Angel." Journal of Modern Literature 24.2 (2000-2001): 309-19. InfoTrac Student Edition. Alabama

Virtual Library. 11 Jan. 2002 <http://www.avl.lib.al.us/databases/>.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

"Ozone depletion." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2003. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Alabama Virtual Library.

15 May 2003 <http://www.avl.lib.al.us/databases/>.

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Citing Online MBHS Databases / Databases & Services Available in Specific Libraries

Mountain Brook High School Library - The Discovering Collection

"Water Pollution." Discovering Science. 1996. Gale. The Discovering Collection. 2000. Gale. Mountain Brook High

School Lib., Birmingham, AL. 12 Jan.2001 <http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/lib.htm>.

Mountain Brook High School Library - The Discovering Collection - Literature

Carpenter, Frederic I. "Scarlet A Minus." College English 5.4 (1944): 173-80. Discovering Authors. 1999. Gale

The Discovering Collection. 2000. Gale. Mountain Brook High School Lib., Birmingham, AL.

12 Jan.2001 <http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/lib.htm>.

"Toni Morrison." Discovering Authors. 1999. Gale. The Discovering Collection. 2000. Gale. Mountain Brook High

School Lib., Birmingham, AL. 27 Aug. 2002 <http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/lib.htm>.

Sewall, Richard B. "The Scarlet Letter." The Vision of Tragedy. New Haven: Yale UP, 1980. 86-91. Exploring

Novels. 1998. Gale. The Discovering Collection. 2000. Gale. Mountain Brook High School Lib.,

Birmingham, AL. 27 Aug. 2002 <http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/lib.htm>.

Mountain Brook High School Library - World Book Encyclopedia

Reimers, David M. "Immigration." World Book Online Reference Center. World Book. Mountain Brook

High School Lib., Birmingham, AL. 18 Aug. 2003 <http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/lib.htm>.

Samford University Library - InfoTrac

Wohlpart, James A. "A Tradition of Male Poetics: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as an Allegory of Art."

The Midwest Quarterly 39.3 (1998): 11 pp. InfoTrac. Samford University Lib., Birmingham, AL.

5 May 2000 <http://web2.searchbank.com/infotrak>.

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