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Works Cited Guidelines for Online Sources ·       Note that dates go in this order: day month year: 09 Jan. 2006 ·       Not all websites provide all the information required; plug in what you find in the correct order. INTERNET SOURCE: BASIC FORMAT Author’s Last Name, First Name (if given). “Title of web page/article.” Name of Website. Editor’s name (if given), ed. Date of the electronic publication or latest update. (put No Date if none given) Name of Sponsoring Organization. Date of your access <website address (URL)>. ?If URL is excessively long, stop after 2nd slash after name of website or give the address of the search page. Sanderson, Nicole. “Runes through Time.” Vikings. November 2000. PBS. 15 Sept. 2005 <http://www.pbs.org/         wgbh/nova/vikings/runes.html>. Parenthetical Reference: (Sanderson) ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA Author’s Last Name, First Name (if given). “Title of Article.” Title of Encyclopedia. Date of the electronic publication or latest update. Name of Sponsoring Organization. Your access date  <URL>. Signed article Davis, Richard L. "Silk Road." World Book Online Reference Center. 2005. World Book, Inc. 6 Sept. 2005 <http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar510590>. PR: (Davis) Unsigned article “Silk Road.”  Encyclopedia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition. 6 Sept. 2005 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9067775>. PR: (“Silk Road”) ONLINE PERIODICAL (magazine or newspaper) Author’s Last Name, First Name (if given). “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical Volume Number (if given) Date of Publication: Page Numbers (if given). Your access date <URL>. Owen, James. “Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World.” National Geographic News 22 April 2005. 26 Sept. 2005 < http://news.nationalgeographic.com/>. PR: (Owen) BOOK, ONLINE (print source within internet source) Author’s Last Name, First Name. “ Title of section used” (if applicable). Title of Book. Original publication date. Name of website. Editor of site, if given. Date of electronic publication. Name of Sponsoring Organization. Your access date  <URL>.    SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES  (such as Minuteman Databases and Historical New York Times) Biography Resource Center Author’s Last Name, First Name (if given). “Title of Article.” Title of Print Source. Publisher, Date of             Publication. Name of Database. Online Publisher. Name of Subscribing Library. Your access             date <URL>. “Erik the Red.” Explorers and Discoverers of the World. Gale Research, 1993. Biography Resource             Center. Thomson Gale. Acton Memorial Library. 16 Sept. 2005 <http://galenet.galegroup.com/ servlet/BioRC>. PR: (“Erik the Red”) InfoTrac (General Reference Center Gold, Student Edition, etc.) and ProQuest (Historical New York Times) Author’s Last Name, First Name (if given). “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical Volume number (for a journal) Date of publication: page numbers (if given). Name of Database. Name of Service. Online Publisher. Name of Subscribing Library. Your access date <URL>. Mills, Stephen and Melanie Menagh. “Who Discovered America?” Omni 13 Sept. 1991: 33. Student Edition. InfoTrac. Thomsen Gale. Acton Memorial Library. 23 September 2005 <http://find.galegroup.com/>. PR: (Mills and Menagh) ONLINE IMAGE (photograph, illustration, map, graph, etc.) Creator’s Last Name, First Name (if given). “Title or Description of Image.” Date of image (put No Date if none given). Online image (or graph, etc.). Title of Website Date of download <URL>. Ohlsen, Hans-Henrik, “Excavated Viking Ship.” No date. Online image. Danish Viking Ships 16 Sept. 2005 <http://www.copenhagenpictures.dk/showit.pl?vrag3_jpg>. PR: (Ohlsen) or (Ohlsen, Viking Ships)  ? Note that shortening a title is acceptable ARTWORK REPRODUCTION Artists’s Name. Title of Artwork. Date (if known). Name of Institution which houses the work, City of Institition. Name of website. Date of download <URL>. Raphael. Cowper Madonna. 1505. National Gallery of Art, Washington. WebMuseum. 17 Feb 2006  <http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/raphael/>. PR:  (Cowper Madonna) OR (Raphael, Cowper Madonna) Created by the ABRHS library, version 3                                                                       February 2006 Based on the MLA Handbook, 6th edition © 2003 and updates on <http://www.mla.org/publications/style/ >.