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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