Created by Eve Diel (with changes by Paul Roesler), Reference Librarian --St. Charles County Community College Library;  May 2002.

Web Guides for Citing Electronic Resources: 

Chicago Style (Turabian):    http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite7.html#1

MLA Style -- Citing Articles from the Library Online Indexes (Academic Search Elite, etc.)

• Cite the article exactly as if it were in print format (be sure to include page numbers, using either ‘11pp’ or ‘pp234-245' format)
• Online periodical index name, underlined
• Name of online index producer (company name)
• Name of library and city
• Date of access
• URL of the main screen of the index (do not try to give complete path to the article.   It will always be long and complicated and nearly impossible to re-type accurately)

Example:

Strasburger, Victor C. and Edward Donnerstein. “Children, Adolescents, and the Media: Issues and Solutions.” Pediatrics 103.1 (1999): pp129-138.   Academic Search Elite.   EBSCOhost .  SCCCC Library, St. Peters.   12 August 2000 <http://search.epnet.com> 

Citing Documents on the World Wide Web

(note: web sources are usually NOT scholarly)

Give as much of the following information as you can locate on the web page:

• Author’s name
• Title of article or document, in quotes
• Title of project or database, underlined or italicized
• Date of publication or last revision
• Name of company, school, library or other entity responsible for the web page
• Date you accessed the web site
• Web address (URL), in angle brackets

Example:

Svitil , Kathy.  “Mountains of Fire.”   Savage Earth.   PBS Online.   7 July 2000
                                       <http://www.thirteen.org/archive/savageearth/volcanoes/index.html>.