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MLA Internet Documentation: Works Cited
Note: This information is also available in .pdf format. Depending on your monitor size, the spacing for the examples below may not look consistent. Entries should be double-spaced. The examples here are guidelines only; the best resource is the MLA handbook itself.
If the web document is missing information such as author or page numbers, omit them from your citation. For more information, please refer to Sec. 4.9 in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Fifth Edition, or http://www.mla.org.
  1. Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator.
  2. "Title of a poem, short story, article, or similar short."
  3. Title of a book
  4. Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant and if not cited earlier).
  5. Publication information for any print version of the source.
  6. Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, professional, or personal site.
  7. Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database.
  8. Version, volume, or issue number of the source.
  9. Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting.
  10. For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum.
  11. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections.
  12. Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the Web site.
  13. Date when you accessed the source
  14. <URL Address (i.e. http://...)>.

Scholarly Project
 


Victorian Writers Women's Project. E. Perry

    Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997

    <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp.htm>.
Personal Site 

Lancashire, Ian. Home Page. 1 May 1997 

  
    <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>.
Article in a Magazine 


Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?"

    Slate. 12 May 1997 <http://www.slate.com/Economics.

    asp>.
Book 

Nesbit, Edith. Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism.

    London, 1908. Victorian Women Writers Project.

    Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr.

    1997 <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

    nesbit/ballsoc.html>.

Posting to a Discussion List
 

Merrian, Joannae. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre."

    Online posting. 30 Apr. 1997. Shakespeare: The Global

    Electronic Shakespeare Conference. 17 Aug. 1997

    <http://www.arts.ubc.ca/english/iemls/shak/monsterp_

    spinoff.txt>.