MLA Format for Electronic Sources

The Modern Language Association (MLA) has designed a specific format for referencing electronic resources, including elements from the following list if available--

• Name of the editor/author if given
• Title of the article (in quotations)
• Title of the journal/book (underlined)
• Title of the project, or database (underlined)
• Electronic publication information, including version if available
• Date of electronic publication or latest update
• Name of any sponsoring institution of organization
• Date of access 
• Internet address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

Article in a Reference Database
"Fresco." Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica. 29 Mar. 1997
     <http://www.eb.com:180>.

Article in a Scholarly Journal, not in a database
Flannagan, Roy. "Reflections on Milton and Ariosto." 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>.
     
Note that the number of paragraphs rather than page numbers can be given for scholarly articles if page numbering isn't available.

Article in a Magazine or E-Zine, not in a database
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>.

Work from a Subscription Service database, such as Academic OneFile or Lexis-Nexis
When an article does not have a specific URL, database URL is used.

Skeen, Catherine. "Projecting fictions: Gulliver's Travels, Jack Connor, and John Buncle. 
     Early prose fiction: edges and limits of the novel." Modern Philology. 100: 3
     (2003) 330-360.  Academic Onefile. 2 Jan. 2004
     <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/delvalco_main>.

Work from a scholarly database, such as JSTOR
When an article has its own URL or web address, use it as address.

Patey, Douglas L. "Swift's Satire on "Science" and the Structure of Gulliver's Travels." ELH.
     58:4 (1991) 809-839. JSTOR. 28 Jan. 2004
     <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8394%28199124%2958%3A4%3C809%>.

Electronic Book
Use the catalog link when book is accessed through the DVC library catalog.

Korda, Natasha. Shakespeare's domestic economies: gender and property in early
     modern England. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania P. 2002. NetLibrary.
     28 Jan. 2008 http://webcat.delval.edu/ 

For more information and examples--

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed.
Copies available in both the Reference and Circulating collections.
808.027
G35m 2003