To cite a digital image, find the following pieces of information:
If the picture was found using Google Images, do not cite Google Images as the publisher. Instead, click on the picture and use the information from the website that is hosting the picture.
When including the URL in the citation, omit “http://” and “https://” from the site’s address.
Examples:
Creator’s Last name, First name. “Title of the digital image.” Title of the website, First name Last name of any contributors, Version (if applicable), Number (if applicable), Publisher, Publication date, URL.
Vasquez, Gary A. Photograph of Coach K with Team USA. NBC Olympics,USA Today Sports, 5 Aug. 2016, www.nbcolympics.com/news/rio-olympics-coach-ks-toughest-test-or-lasting-legacy.
Here are some common features you should try and find before citing electronic sources in MLA style. Not every Web page or database article will provide all of the following information. However, collect as much of the following information as possible both for your citations and for your research notes:
In the MLA style, you create a Works Cited page at the end of your paper. Here are some examples on how to cite your sources.
Basic book |
Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford UP, 2011. |
Book with two authors |
Casell, Kay Ann and Uma Hiremath. Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century: An Introduction. Neal-Schuman, 2004. |
Book with three authors |
Robbins, Chandler S., et al. Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. Golden, 1966. |
Journal article with |
Asafu-Adjaye, Prince. “Private Returns on Education in Ghana: Estimating the Effects of Education on Employability in Ghana.” African Sociological Review, vol. 16, no. 1, CODESRIA, 2012, pp. 120-138. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24487691. |
Journal article with |
Zhang, H., and K. Merikangas. "A frailty model of segregation analysis: understanding the familial transmission of alcoholism." Biometrics, vol. 56, no. 3, 2000, pp. 815-823. www.biometrics.tibs.org/. Accessed 5 Oct. 2016. Omit “http://” or “https://” from the URL when including it in the citation. It is highly recommended to include the date you accessed the article. |
Book in database |
​Cateforis, Theodore. Are We Not New Wave? Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s. University of Michigan Press, 2011. Project Muse, Omit “http://” or “https://” from the URL when including it in the citation. It is highly recommended to include the date you accessed the article. |
Newspaper article in database |
Bennish, Steve, and Laura A. Bischoff. “Voters Support Ohio Library Building Boom.” Dayton Daily News, 24 June 2016. Ebscohost, Omit “http://” or “https://” from the URL when including it in the citation. It is highly recommended to include the date you accessed the article. |
For in-text citations, put the information about the source in parentheses within the text of the paper, rather than in a footnote or end note. Note that the punctuation for the sentence goes AFTER the final parenthesis, like this: (Smith 20-21).
Basic Citation Cite the author's last name and the page number where the information you cited is found. |
(Smith 77). |
No Author Provide an abbreviated title for the source. Italics book titles and put quotations about article titles. |
This book... (Long 221). This article... (“Long” 110). |
No Page Number Provide author's name only. If there are no page numbers, you can not invent any. |
(Smith). |
Two Authors | (Smith and Davis 17). |
We cite our sources so that our readers can easily find the sources to which we are referring; if that information were not given in a standardized format, we would all have great difficulty finding the sources on our own.