Write the name of the author or editor, if available, in the format "Last Name, First Name Middle Initial" for the first author only. After that, write names in normal order: "First Name Last Name." Write ", ed." or ", eds." if more than one, after the names of editors.
Write the article name in quotation marks followed by a period. For example, your citation so far for the article listed "References" would look like this:
Carter, Stephen L. "America's Losing Pirate Battle."
Write the name of the hosting website, project or book in italics, followed by a period.
In the following example, the words in single quotes should be italicized:
Carter, Stephen L. "America's Losing Pirate Battle." 'TheDailyBeast.com.'
Find if there's any version, such as "2.0" or "Beta," associated with the site. Write this version, followed by a period.
Write the name of the website publisher, a comma, then the date of publication, if available, in "date month year" format . If there is no publisher, write "n.p." If there is no date of publication, write "n.d." The example would look this this:
Carter, Stephen L. "America's Losing Pirate Battle." 'TheDailyBeast.com.' Newsweek, 22 July 2011.
Write the page number, if available, followed by a period. If your source is an online magazine or scholarly journal, write "n. pag." If there are multiple pages and no page number is given, skip this step.
Write the medium of publication, in this case "Web." followed by a period. Write the date you accessed the page in "date month year" format. Your final citation would look like this:
Carter, Stephen L. "America's Losing Pirate Battle." 'TheDailyBeast.com.' Newsweek, 22 July 2011. Web. 24 July 2011.
The final rubric for citing computer sources in MLA is:
Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.