ELECTRONIC SOURCES

    As a general rule you cite the information needed for the print source and add the information needed for the electronic source.  If no print source is given cite the information needed for the electronic source.  If you cannot find some of the information needed cite what is available.  Information needed for CD-ROM's may be found in manuals, on the CD disk or on the main screen  and for the Internet may be found in the URL, on the main page of the site, embedded in the text, etc. 
    *The following citations have been adapted from MLA for middle school students.

                                                                

                                CD-ROMS                                   
 
    NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES ON CD-ROM

  INFORMATION NEEDED:
   1. Name of the author  of the article (if given)
   2. Title of the article (in quotation marks)
   3. Title of the magazine / newspaper (underlined)
   4. Date of the magazine / newspaper
   5. Pages
   6. Title of the database (underlined)
   7. Publication medium (CD-ROM)
   8. Name of the vendor (if available)
   9. Electronic publication date of CD-ROM

“Just Lion Around: a Pride of Triplets Has the Philadelphia Zoo Feline Groovy.”  People Weekly
       18 April 1994: 46.  Infotrac Magazine Index Select ASAP 1. CD-ROM.  Information Access
      Company.  1995.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS, OTHER REFERENCE
SOURCES ON CD-ROM

INFORMATION NEEDED:
   1. Name of the author (if given)
   2. Title of the article or part of the work (in quotation marks - if different from the title of the CD-ROM)
   3. Title of the CD-ROM (underlined)
   4. Edition, release, or version (if relevant)
   5. Publication medium (CD-ROM)
   6. City of publication
   7. Name of the publisher
   8. Year of publication

Ratcliff, Carter.  “Matisse, Henri.”  The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.  1994 ed.  CD-ROM.
      Danbury, CT: Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc., 1993.

“Zebra.”  Mammals: a Multimedia Encyclopedia.  Vers. 6.0.8, 7.0.  CD-ROM.  Washington, DC:
      National Geographic Society, 1993.

“Washington, George.”  The Presidents.  Vers. 3.3.  CD-ROM.  Washington, DC: National 
       Geographic Society, 1991.

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