Citing Internet or World Wide Web Resources
MLA Style Citations from the Modern Language Association
Created and authorized by the Modern Language Association of America.
Citation in bibliography, format:
- Name of the author, editor, compiler or translator of the source (if available and relevant), reversed for alphabetizing and followed by an abbreviation, such as ed., if appropriate
- Title of a poem, short story, article or similar short work within a scholarly project, database or periodical (in quotation marks); or title of a posting to a discussion list or forum (taken from the subject line and put in quotation marks), followed by the description Online posting
- Title of a book (underlined)
- Name of the editor, compiler or translator of the text (if relevant and if not cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such as Ed.
- Publication information for any print version of the source
- Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical or professional or personal site (underlined); or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as Home page
- Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database (if available)
- Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume number, issue number or other identifying number
- Date of electronic publication, of the latest update or of posting
- For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum
- The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs or other sections, if they are numbered
- Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the web site
- Date when the researcher accessed the source
- Electronic address, or URL, of the source (in angle brackets)
(Note: in the examples below, items followed by *underlined* should be underlined.)
Citation in bibliography, examples:
Portuguese Language Page *underlined*. U of Chicago. 1 May 1997 <http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/port/>.
Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 May 1997 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>.
Connect to MLA's web site for more examples.
Citing Full-text Articles from Ebscohost Academic Search Elite, Business Source Plus or Health Source Plus Using MLA Style | back to top
Citation in bibliography, format:
Author. "Title of Article." Magazine Title *underlined* volume.issue (year): page numbers or # of paragraphs. Academic Search Elite *underlined*. Online. Ebscohost. (Day Month Year accessed).
Citation in bibliography, example:
Reuben, Richard C. "Whose language is it?" ABA Journal *underlined* 82 (1996):44. Academic Search Elite *underlined*. Online. Ebscohost. (17 Feb. 1997).
For Business Source Plus or Health Source Plus, simply substitute the appropriate Ebscohost database for Academic Search Elite.
Citation in text, format:
(Author, year, par. #)
Citation in text, example:
(Reuben, 1996, par. 22)
Citing Full-text Articles from Dow Jones News Retrieval Using MLA Style | back to top
Newspaper articles:
Citation in bibliography, format:
Author. "Title of Article." Newspaper Title *underlined*. (day month year): page numbers or # of paragraphs. Dow Jones News Retrieval *underlined*. Online. Dow Jones. (Day, Month, Year accessed).
Citation in bibliography, example:
Borchmann, Phil. "Fox River's Neighbors Tidying Up Carpentersville, Elgin Make Strides." Chicago Tribune *underlined*. 24 Sept. 1996: 26 pars. Dow Jones News Retrieval *underlined*. Online. Dow Jones. (15, Aug. 1997).
Magazine articles:
C itation in bibliography, format:
Author. "Title of Article." Magazine Title *underlined*. volume:issue (year): page numbers or # of paragraphs. Dow Jones News Retrieval *underlined*. Online. Dow Jones. (Day, Month, Year accessed).
Citation in bibliography, example:
Smith, John. (1996 Apr. 10). "New Treatments Can Save Lives." FDA Consumer *underlined* 122:3 (1996): 26 pars. Dow Jones News Retrieval *underlined*. Online. Dow Jones. (17 Aug. 1997).
If you cannot find some of the required information, cite what's available.
Citation in text, format:
(Author, Year, par. #)
Citation in text, example:
(Borchmann, 1996, par. 10)
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