MLA Style - Web Site

Citation Elements in order: 1 Title of Web chapter or article: An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 2 Name of Web site: American Memory 3 Publisher: The Library of Congress 4 Publication date: Aug-17-2005 5 Format: Web 6 Date of access: July 22, 2009 Document Example:

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Proper Citation Format: MLA citations are double-spaced and indented after the first line.

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920. American Memory. Library of Congress, 17 Aug. 2005. Web. 22 July 2009.

Parenthetical Reference: When citing documents that lead with a title, use the title, or part of the title, in the parenthetical reference. When using part of the title, start with the words at the beginning of the title:

The exhibition demonstrates that dance manuals can tell us important things about how people lived in past eras (An American Ballroom Companion).
TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY Hartford, Connecticut