How to Cite an Online Poem - ELWOOD EDUCATION



How to Cite an Online Poem

• Authors last name / comma / first name / middle initial (if there is one) / period (only one) / space

• Name of the poem in quotation marks – period inside quotation marks / space

Put the title in italics if the poem is published as a book (The Waste Land, or Beowulf)

• Title of the Web site (italicized)

• Version or edition used *

• Publisher or sponsor of the site; if not available, use N.p. If same as name of site, do this: . PoemHunter. Or this: Newsweek. Newsweek.

• Date of publication (day, month, and year, as available); If nothing is available, use n.d. Usually, the month is abbreviated.

• Medium of publication: Web.

• Date of access: (day, month, and year). Usually, the months are abbreviated unless they are only four letters long: July, Apr., Nov., Jan., June, etc.

• URL: Remove the hyperlink. The URL should not be underlined or in blue. Right click the URL and select “Remove hyperlink” on the drop-down menu. You may divide a URL after any slash.

• Fit as much information on any line as you can.

* For new editions – 2nd ed. / 3rd ed.

* For newer editions referred to by name: Rev. ed. for “Revised edition”; Abr. Ed. for “Abridged edition,”

or by year 2008 ed. – Use which ever information is provided.

When a printed work is also published online, site the relevant information about the print publication first. This works for a book, something from a book (a chapter, section, poem) or a government document.

• Author’s last name / comma / first name / period

• Name of the chapter, section, or poem in quotation marks / period (inside the quotation mark)

• Name of the book (in italics) / period (not italicized)

• City published / colon

• Publishing company / comma

• Year of publication / period

• Page number(s) if you are citing a smaller piece or section If there is no page, use N. pag.

If you are citing the entire piece, do not put a number or the abbreviation

• Title of the data base or website (in italics) / period

• Medium of publication (Web) / period

• Date of access (day, month, year) / period

EXAMPLES:

Whittier, John G. “A Prayer.” The Freedmen’s Book. Ed. L. Maria Child. Boston, 1866. 178.

Google Book Search. Web. 27 Apr. 2012. .

Atwood, Margaret. “You Fit into Me.” . PoemHunter. 3 Jan. 2003. Web. 14

Nov. 2014. .

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