Web sites (in MLA style, the "W" in Web is capitalized, and
"Web site" or "Web sites" are written as two words) and Web
pages are arguably the most commonly cited form of electronic resource today.
Below are a variety of Web sites and pages you might need to cite.
Basic format:
Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name
of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in
copyright statements). Date you accessed the site [electronic address].
It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often
updated, and information available on one date may no longer be available
later. Be sure to include the complete address for the site. Here are some
examples:
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005.
The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and
Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003.
URLs that won't fit on one line of your Works Cited list should be broken
at slashes, when possible.
Amazon.com.
"Privacy and Security." 22 May 2006 <http://www.amazon.com/>.
Path: Help; Privacy & Security.
For an individual page on a Web site, list the author or alias if known,
followed by the information covered above for entire Web sites. Make sure the
URL points to the exact page you are referring to, or the entry or home page
for a collection of pages you're referring to:
"Caret."
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. 10 May 2006
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caret&oldid=157510440>.
For works housed outside of an online home, include the artist's name, the
year the work was created, and the institution (e.g., a gallery or museum) that
houses it (if applicable), followed by the city where it is located. Include
the complete information for the site where you found the image, including the date
of access. In this first example, the image was found on the Web site belonging
to the work's home museum:
Goya,
Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800.
Author(s).
"Title of Article." Title of Online Publication. Date of
Publication. Date of Access <electronic address>.
Online scholarly journals are treated different from online magazines.
First, you must include volume and issue information, when available. Also,
some electronic journals and magazines provide paragraph or page numbers;
again, include them if available.
Wheelis, Mark.
"Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin
Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 33
pars. 8 May 2006 <http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no6/wheelis.htm>.
Author.
"Title of the message (if any)." E-mail to person's name. Date of the
message.
This same format may be used for personal interviews or personal letters.
These do not have titles, and the description should be appropriate. Instead of
"Email to John Smith," you would have "Personal interview."
Kunka, Andrew.
"Re: Modernist Literature." E-mail to the author. 15 Nov. 2000.
MLA style capitalizes the E in E-mail, and separates E and mail with a
hyphen.
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