Online MLA Formatting Instructions

With so much information available on the World Wide Web, college professors are increasingly allowing students to cite online resources. To give proper credit to a source, you need to gather information from each website that you cite to include in your references page. If your professor has requested that you use MLA style, you must present the details in the correct order and properly formatted.

Instructions

    • 1

      Navigate to the website you want to cite.

    • 2

      Locate the title of the Web page, the author of the content (if listed), the name of the website owner and the date of the content (if available). You also need to make note of the date you visited the website. Finding an author name isn't always possible, but it is usually listed near the top of the article, right below the title. Likewise, dates are often not cited on websites but you can sometimes find the copyright or publication date at the very bottom of the Web page.

    • 3

      Arrange the details in the following format if you want to cite an entire website:

      Editor, author or compiler name (if one is listed). Name of Website. Version number. Name of the institution/organization affiliated with the site, date of resource creation (if one is listed). Medium of publication. Date of access.

      For example:

      Smith, John. Website ABC. Version 3.1. XYZ Organization, 10 May 2011. Web. 15 May 2011.

    • 4

      Arrange the details as follows if you just need to cite a single Web page:

      Editor, author, or compiler name (if one is listed). "Webpage Title." Name of Website. Version number. Name of the institution/organization affiliated with the site, date of resource creation (if one is listed). Medium of publication. Date of access.

      For example:

      Smith, John. "Citing Websites for MLA." Example Website. Version 3.1. XYZ Organization, 10 May 2011. Web. 15 May 2011.

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