McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research

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The Modern Language Association (MLA) Style

- used for courses in English, foreign
    languages, film, and literature

Parenthetical citations in the body of the paper indicate the last name of the author and page of the source, which is then listed fully at the end of the paper in the Works Cited. However, electronic sources do not ordinarily have numbered pages. If the paragraphs are numbered, give the number preceded by the bbreviation par. Otherwise, just give the author's name, or the first main word of the title if no author is listed. You will not need a parenthetical citation for your electronic source if you identify the author in your sentence.
Jason P. Mitchell interprets Maggie and Big Daddy as "less sympathetic" and Brick as "more compelling"--based on Tennessee Williams's comments in an interview published in 1955.
or
The characters in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof can be viewed differently in light of Tennessee Williams's comments in a 1955 interview (Mitchell par.4).

The reader of your paper could then turn to the Works Cited where you have listed the complete reference. (The second date is the date you viewed it.)

Mitchell, Jason P. "The Artist as Critic: A

       Reconsideration of Brick Pollitt." 5 Dec. 1995.

       5 June. 1998 <http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.

       edu/%7Ejmitchel/misphil.htm>.

Classic Footnote (or Endnote) Style

-    used for a general audience, art,
     communications, dance, history, journalism,
     music, political science, theater, and cross-
     disciplinary courses

In this style, you use raised numbers in the body of your paper, referring to a specific note that gives the bibliographical information plus page number--or date of viewing for a source from the Internet.

Start numbering consecutively, beginning with the number one after the first presentation of research information. Use a different number for each presentation of information (regardless of whether the source is the same or different). In the body of your paper, it would look like this:

Caroline Link, director of Beyond Silence, does not know sign language; she used an interpreter for communicating with the deaf actors.2

Then, either at the foot of the page where you gave the information (for footnotes) or in a numerically ordered list at the end of the paper (for endnotes), you provide the source of the information for each corresponding number in your paper--like this:

     2Nina Davidson, "Thursday Art Attack: 'Beyond
Silence' Director Caroline Link" Hollywood Online.
4 June 1998, 11 June 1998 <http://www.hollywood.com/
news/roundtable/Thursday/06-04-98/>.

The bibliographical reference, alphabetized by authors' last names, gives the same information in a slightly different format.

Davidson, Nina. "Thursday Art Attack: 'Beyond

       Silence' Director Caroline Link" Hollywood Online.

       4 June 1998. 11 June 1998 <http://www.hollywood.com/

       news/roundtable/Thursday/06-04-98/>.

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