CITING SOURCES: NONPRINT OR ELECTRONIC
Because this is a new and changing source there is little agreement on the “correct” form at this time. In keeping with the spirit of the MLA Handbook while attempting to provide a uniform pattern for citation, the following format has been temporarily adopted.
In citing sources from radio or television programs, films, computer software, electronic databases, recordings and other nonprint material, list only the name of the author either in the body of the text or in the parenthetical citation.
In response to Victor Brombert’s 1990 MLA presidential address on the “politics of critical language,” one correspondent suggests that “some literary scholars envy the scientists their wonderful jargon with its certainty and precision and thus wish to emulate it by creating formidably technical-sounding words of their own” (Mitchell).
