Citing Internet Sources with MLA:  General Examples

 Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 1 Oct. 1999 < http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/ Economics.asp>.

Mitchell, Jason P. Letter. "PMLA Letter." Home page. 10 May 1997. 1 Nov. 1999 <http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/pmla.htm>

Mitchell, Jason P. "PMLA Letter." Home page. 10 May 1997. 1 Nov. 1999 <http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/pmla.htm>.

Stuber, Irene. "April 26, 1996: Episode 638." Women of Achievement and Herstory: A Frequently-Appearing Newsletter. 3 May 1996. 11 Dec. 1997 <http://www.academic.marist.edu/woa/ index.htm>.
Referring to print sources, the MLA Handbook gives the following general models for Works Cited entries:

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How do I document sources from the Web in the works-cited list for my research paper?
The MLA guidelines on documenting online sources in a research paper are explained in detail in the sixth edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2003). What follows here is a summary of the guidelines in the MLA Handbook that cover the World Wide Web.
Sources on the Web that students use in their research include scholarly projects, information databases, the texts of books, articles in periodicals, and personal sites. Entries in a works-cited list for such sources contain as many items from the list below as are relevant and available. Following this list are sample entries for some common kinds of Web sources.
1. Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source (if given), reversed for alphabetizing and, if appropriate, followed by an abbreviation, such as ed.
2. Title of an article, poem, short story, or similar short work in the Internet site (enclosed 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
3. Title of a book (underlined [Should I use underlining or italics?])
4. 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.
5. Publication information for any print version of the source
6. Title of the Internet site (e.g., scholarly project, database, online periodical, or professional or personal site (underlined [Should I use underlining or italics?]) or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as Home page
7. Name of the editor of the site (if given)
8. Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume number, issue number, or other identifying number
9. Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting
10. For a work from a subscription service, the name of the service and--if a library or a consortium of libraries is the subscriber--the name and geographic location (e.g., city, state abbreviation) of the subscriber
11. For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum
12. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are numbered
13. Name of any institution or organization sponsoring the site (if not cited earlier)
14. Date when the researcher accessed the source
15. URL of the source or, if the URL is impractically long and complicated, the URL of the site's search page. Or, for a document from a subscription service, the URL of the service's home page, if known; or the keyword assigned by the service, preceded by Keyword; or the sequence of links followed, preceded by Path.
Scholarly Project
Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett.

     May 2000. Indiana U. 26 June 2002 <http://

     www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>.
Information Database
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet. 19

     June 2001. Lib. of Congress, Washington. 18 May

     2002 <http://thomas.loc.gov/>.
Personal Site
Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 28 Mar. 2002. 15 May

     2002 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/>.
Book
Nesbit, E[dith]. Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism.

     London, 1908. Victorian Women Writers Project.

     Ed. Perry Willett. May 2000. Indiana U. 26 June

     2002 <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

     nesbit/ballsoc.html>.
Poem
Nesbit, E[dith]. "Marching Song." Ballads and Lyrics

     of Socialism. London, 1908. Victorian Women

     Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. May 2000.

     Indiana U. 26 June 2002 <http://

     www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/

     ballsoc.html#p9>.
Article in a Journal
Sohmer, Steve. "12 June 1599: Opening Day at

     Shakespeare's Globe." Early Modern Literary

     Studies 3.1 (1997): 46 pars. 26 June 2002

     <http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/sohmjuli.html>.
Article in a Magazine
Levy, Steven. "Great Minds, Great Ideas." Newsweek

     27 May 2002. 20 May 2002 <http://www.msnbc.com/

     news/754336.asp>.
Work from a Library Subscription Service
Youakim, Sami. "Work-Related Asthma." American

     Family Physician 64 (2001): 1839-52. Health

     Reference Center. Gale. Bergen County

     Cooperative Lib. System, NJ. 12 Jan. 2002

     <http://www.galegroup.com/>.
Work from a Personal Subscription Service
"Table Tennis." Compton's Encyclopedia Online. Vers.

     2.0. 1997. America Online. 4 July 1998.

     Keyword: Compton's.
Posting to a Discussion List
Merrian, Joanne. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre."

     Online posting. 30 Apr. 1994. Shaksper: The

     Global Electronic Shakespeare Conf. 23 Sept.

     2002 <http://www.shaksper.net/archives/1994/

     0380.html>.

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I am using a source on the Web that has no page numbers. How do I cite it in my research paper?
In the text of a paper, works on the Web are cited just like printed works. For any type of source, you must include information in your text that directs readers to the correct entry in the works-cited list (see the MLA Handbook, 6th ed., sec. 6.2). Web documents generally do not have fixed page numbers or any kind of section numbering. If your source lacks numbering, you cannot cite numbers when you borrow from it.

If your source includes fixed page numbers or section numbering (such as numbering of paragraphs), cite the relevant numbers. For numbers other than page numbers, give the appropriate abbreviation before the numbers: "(Moulthrop, pars. 19–20)." (Pars. is the abbreviation for paragraphs. Common abbreviations are listed in the MLA Handbook, sec. 7.4.) Do not count paragraphs yourself if your source lacks numbering.

For a document on the Web, the page numbers of a printout should normally not be cited, because the pagination may vary in different printouts. An exception is PDF files, which appear with the same pagination on all systems.
 

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