• Article in a reference database
• Article in a journal
• Article in a magazine
• Book
• Poem
• Scholarly project
• Professional site
• Personal site
• Posting to a discussion list
• Parenthetical references to
  websites

(Information is from the Modern Language Association’s webpage, http://www.mla.org/.)

Article in a reference database

"Fresco." Britannica Online. Vers. 97.1.1. Mar. 1997. Encyclopaedia

Britannica. 29 Mar. 1997 <http://www.eb.com:180>.

Article in a journal

Flannagan, Roy. "Reflections on Milton and Ariostotle." Early Modern

Literary Studies 2.3 (1996): 16 pars. 22 Feb. 1997

<http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/02-

3/flanmilt.html>.

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Article in a magazine

Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 2

May 1997 <http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-

01/Economics.asp>.

Book

Nesbit, E[dith]. Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. London, 1908. Victorian

Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997.

Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997

<http://www.indiana.edu/~letters/vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html>.

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Poem

Nesbit, E[dith]. "Marching Song." Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism.

London, 1908. Victorian Women Writers Project.

Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997

<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html#p9>.

Scholarly project

Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U.

26 Apr. 1997 <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>.

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Professional Site

Portuguese Language Page. U of Chicago. 1 May 1997

<http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/port/>.

Personal site

Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 May 1997

<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>.

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Posting to a discussion list

Merrian, Joanne. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre." Online posting. 30 Apr.

1994. Shaksper: The Global Electronic Shakespeare

Conference. 27 Aug. 1997

<http://www.arts.ubc.ca/english/iemls/shak/MONSTERP_SPINOFF.txt>.

Parenthetical references to websites

Parenthetical references to websites within the text are cited just as print
`sources, except for numbering:-

• if the website lacks fixed page or section numbers, omit numbers;

• if the website includes fixed page or section numbers, include the
  numbers with the appropriate abbreviations.

• e.g. (Moulthrop, pars. 19-20)
  (with pars being the abbreviation for paragraphs)

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