When all information for a web page is present, the basic format is:
Author last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Website Name, Day Month Year, URL.
For an entire website: Website Name. Day Month Year, URL.
Examples:
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. Accessed 23 Apr. 2008.
Felluga, Dino. Survey of the Literature of England. Purdue U, Aug. 2006, web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/241/241/Home.html. Accessed 31 May 2007.
URLs in MLA citations
Include a URL or web address to help readers locate your sources. Because web addresses are not static (i.e., they change often) and because documents sometimes appear in multiple places on the web (e.g., on multiple databases), MLA encourages the use of citing containers such as Youtube, JSTOR, Spotify, or Netflix in order to easily access and verify sources.
Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2008. http://classics.mit.edu/.
MLA citation features:
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MLA style calls for a sponsor or a publisher for most online sources.
- MLA defines a short work as works not of book length or that are internal pages of a web site.
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If there is no date of publication or update, use “n.d.” (for “no date”) after the sponsor.
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If the page numbers are missing from the resource then use the abbreviation “n. pag.”
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For Medium of publication, use Web.
