Citations of electronic sources and those of print sources should accomplish the same ends and have similar formats.  Both types of citations identify a source and give sufficient information to allow a reader to locate it.  Yet each type requires a different kind and amount of information to fulfill these objectives. Electronic  texts are not as fixed and stable as their print counterparts. References to the electronic works therefore must provide more information than print citations. A citation for an electronic publication, such as a document from an Internet site, may have as many as five divisions, unlike a book or article in periodicals which usually have three main division.. 
Editors Note: When line length forces you to break a Web address, always break it after a slash mark.  See MLA Handbook for more detailed citation references.  

The Basic Entry: A Document from an Internet Site:  
The typical entry for an entire online scholarly project, information database, journal, or professional site consists of the following items:  (please note, this is not for a library subscription database such as from LiLI-Databases).

Author's name.  "Title of the document." Information about print publication. 

     Information about electronic publication. Access information. 

Zeki, Semir. "Artistic Creativity and the Brain." Science 6 July 2001: 51-52.

     Science Magazine. 2002. Amer. Assn. for the Advancement of Science. 

If no print publication is stated, cite only the electronic publication, following the . 

  "This Day in Technology History: August 20." History Channel.com. 2002 History Channel. 14 May 2002 <http:// 

       www.historychannel.com/>.  Path: Technolgoy History; This Day in Technology History.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 2002. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 15 May

       2002 <http://www.britannica.com/>.

A Work from a Library Subscription Service. 
A Document within a Scholarly Project or Information Database
To cite an article, a poem, a short story, or a similar short work or document within a project or database, begin the citation with the author’s name and, in quotation marks, the title of the work, be sure to give the "print information" for the article: the date of publication and page number just as you would for a published magazine citation.  Continue with the relevant information for the project of database, the date of access and if possible, conclude with the URL of the specific document or, if the URL is impractically long and complicated, the URL of the site's search page.  (MLA 6: 5.9.7)

Structure:  
1. Author, if given
2. Title of Article (enclose with quotations)
3.  Date of the Magazine or Journal. 
4.  Title of project or database (underlined)
5.  Name of the library (with a city, a state abbreviation, or both if useful).
6. Date of access 
7.  Network address (URL). 

An Article in a Magazine found on-line in a Database:

Koretz, Gene.  "Economic Trends: Uh-Oh, Warm Water." Business Week 21

      July 1997: 22.  Electric Lib. Sam Barlow High School Lib., Gresham, OR. 

      17 Oct. 1997 <http://www.elibrary.com/>.

Nobel, Dennis L.  "The China Sailor's Homer." Proceedings of the United

       States Naval Institute Apr 2002: 74+. Military & Government Collection.

      EBSCOhost. City of Mountain Home, ID. Mountain Home High School

      Lib.10 Mar. 2005 <http://search.epnet.com/>.

An Entire Internet Site:  
The typical entry for an entire online scholarly project, information database, journal, or professional site consists of the following items:  (please note, this is not for a library subscription database)

Structure:  
1. Title of the site (underlined)
2.  Name of the editor of the site (if given)
3. Electronic publication information (version Number, date of electronic publication or update, name of a sponsoring    institution)
4. Date of access and URL. 

If you cannot find some of this information, cite what is available. 

  History Channel.com 2002. History Channel. 14 May 2002 <http:// 

       www.historychannel.com/>. 

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 2002. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 15 May

       2002 <http://www.britannica.com/>.

Computer Software: A Publication on CD-ROM, Diskette, or Tape 
Cite a non-periodical publication on CD-ROM or diskette like you would a book, but add a description of the medium of publication [MLA 191].

Structure: 
1. Author's name (if given). If only an editor, compiler, or translator is
    identified, cite that person’s name, followed by the appropriate 
    abbreviation (ed., comp., trans.).
2. Title of Publication (underlined)
3. Name of the editor, compiler, or translator (if relevant)
4. Publication  medium (CD-ROM, Diskette) 
5. Edition, release, or version (if relevant)
6. Place of Publication
7. Name of Publisher
8. Date
If you cannot find some information, cite what is available.

Afro-Louisiana Histroy and genealogy, 1699-1860. Ed. Gwendolyn Midlo Ahall.  CD_ROM.

        Baton Ruoge: Louisiana State UP, 2000. 

Encyclopaedia of Islam.  CD-ROM. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

E-mail Communication
To cite electronic mail, give the name of the writer; title of the message (taken from the subject line and enclosed in quotation marks); a description of the message hat includes he recipient (e.g., “E-mail to the author”; and the Date of Message. (MLA 199)

Boyle, Anthony T. “Re: Utopia.” E-mail to Daniel J. Cahill. 21 June1997.

Interview 
Ackroyd, Peter. Interview.  Bold Type.  Nov. 2001. 25 June 2002 <http://
  

      www/ramdomhouse.com/boldtype/1101/ackroyd/interview.html>.

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