Learn How To Cite Web Sources in a Bibliography, Using MLA Format - College Style!

HOW TO CITE INTERNET SOURCES IN A PAPER

Assignment: Go to the links below and create the five citations in MLA format. Read the directions below carefully.

When citing Internet sources in a bibliography, you must be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Who wrote or edited it? (authors/editors/translators)

2. What is it called? (title)

3. What is the name of the Website (usually the name on the 'banner' on top.)

4. What is the name of the organization/company/person who runs the Website (look at the bottom of the page or click on "about us")

5. When was it published? (date)

6. Where did you find it in a book, magazine, website, newspaper, or dvd? (answer: Website.)

7. When did you access the site? (the date that you looked at it on the Internet)

8. The URL address (it must work and take you to the article, not just the home page!)

You must have this information cited in a bibliography in exactly this way:

The Author(s), Title of the Article, Name of web site. Name of organization or company that owns the  site, date published or updated. Where you found it (Book, DVD, Newspaper or Web.) Date of your access (when you looked at it), the URL address.

Here is an example:

John Walke, Extreme Pollution Agenda in Senate Targets Lifesaving Clean Air Standard, Grist: A Beacon in the Smog. Grist Magazine, Nov. 10, 2011. Website. Nov 27, 2011, http://www.grist.org/pollution/2011-11-10-extreme-pollution-agenda-in-senate-targets-lifesaving-clean-air-

It is important that the Internet address link actually work. It should take you or your college professor directly to that article on that website. (Test the one above!)

Create your five citations in the correct format using the web sites below:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-arsenic-life-form/

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2011/05/the_discovery_of_arsenicbased_twitter.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/1202/How-does-an-arsenic-based-life-form-work-exactly

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/27/6730755-arsenic-life-debate-hits-a-new-level

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/02/mono-lake-bacteria-build-their-dna-using-arsenic-and-no-this-isnt-about-aliens/

NOTE: WHEN MAKING A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR YOUR PAPER, BE SURE TO:
1. Make a list of these sources on the last page of your essay.
2. Put your citations in alphabetical order according to the author's last name.