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MLA STYLE: PRINT AND ELECTRONIC SOURCE CITATION
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Address: http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm
Contact: Unidentified (websupport@mla.org)
Date: 07/01/04
This site, authorized by the Modern Language Association of
America, formerly had a page titled "Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web." At present it does not provide this service, but clicking on "MLA Style" leads to a page titled "Frequently Asked Questions" which provides some brief illustrations of MLA-style citations of electronic sources and references to the Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (fifth edition, 1999) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (second edition, 1998). For a site that does supply succinct rules, plus sample entries, for
scholarly citation of print and electronic sources following the most recent editions of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers see "A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation" prepared by the Humanities Department of Capital Community College (http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml). For more detailed information about the MLA Handbook citation style for electronic sources, see the Valencia Community College guide to MLA electronic source citation style (http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/mlaelectronic.html#WEBXP") based on the MLA Handbook for Writers, 5th ed.
"The Columbia Guide to Online Style": http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html., © by Janice R. Walker, University of South Florida, (jwalker@chuma.cas.usf.edu) can also be useful for the same purpose.
COMMENT:
There are important differences between these guides. The Capital Community College guide claims only to summarize the fifth edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (1999) but is exceptionally full in the details and examples it provides. Janice Walker's "The Columbia Guide to Online Style" and the Valencia Community College guide provide more detailed and explicit examples and illustrations of citations of electronic sources, but they also have important differences. The Valencia Community College guide to MLA electronic source citation style is based on the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th ed, 1999. "The Columbia Guide to Online Style," on the other hand, is based on Janice R. Walker's Columbia Guide to Online Style (1998), which attempts to supplement and regularize MLA and other guides to electronic style.