How to Cite Internet Text in MLA Style

MLA style is the Modern Language Association's style of writing and citing academic papers, specifically in the humanities for essays on literature and language. With the MLA style you include parenthetical citations within the text. In most instances, you need to link references within the text of your paper to a list of references at the end of your document. In the past, students and academic publishers have used the MLA style to cite written resources, such as books and publications. Today, you can use MLA style to cite Internet resources.

Instructions

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      Cite a web page in the body of the text by putting the name of the Internet resource in parentheses, with the author name and page number, if available, at the end of the sentence. For example: A 61-year-old woman was diagnosed with venous thromboembolism (JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association).

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      Cite an entire website in the resource list at the end of the document in the following format: Title of the website underlined. Publication date or latest update in day, month, year format. Name of the organization that sponsors or publishes the site. The date you got the information and the <URL>. For example: MSNBC. 31 March 2011. MSNBC. 31 March 2011 <MSNBC.com>.

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      Cite an article from an online journal in the following format: Author. "Title of the Article." Title of the Journal underlined volume.issue (year): pages. Date you got the information <URL>. An example of this would be: Tess, Anjala, MD. "A 61-Year-Old Woman With Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism."; The Journal of the American Medical Association 305.10 (2011): 10.1000. 31 March 2011 <http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/early/2011/03/04/jama.2011.361.full>.

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      Cite an article from an online newspaper in the following format: Author. "Title of article." Title of Newspaper, underlined, day month year, ed.: pages. Volume.Issue (Year): page. Date you got the information <URL>. For example: Baker, Jennifer. "Police Search for U.S. Bank Robber." Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 March 2011, final ed.: A1. 31 March 2011 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110331/NEWS010701/303300087/Police-search-U-S-Bank-robber?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|News

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      Cite an email in the following format: Author. Title of email in quotes. Email recipient. Date of the document. An example would be: Smith, John. "Statistics on Smoking." Jones, Andrea. 31 March 2011.

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