New York . Daily newspaper Riding, Alan. A New Yorker Untangles Covent Gardern's Soap Opera. New York Times 15 Feb. 1999, late ed. The MLA has updated its manual to accommodate scholarly materials that are found on the Internet.
Electronic resources differ from traditional sources in a number of ways.
They are transitory in nature. Sites are often mounted, altered and abandoned. Unlike paper resources that have some degree of permanence, electronic resources, in their public manifestations, are only there as long as the creator chooses to support them. Electronic resources are not subject to the review process that occurs in print sources. Traditional sources, especially scholarly ones, are generally subject to peer review.