Citing World Wide Web Sources Using MLA Style

Since more and more students are using Internet sources for research purposes, the Modern Language Association provides these examples of www citations.  If you need more information, you may want to try going straight to the MLA's web site, <www.mla.org>.

Scholarly Project

Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. April 1997.
Indiana U. 26 April 1997 <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>
Professional Site
Portuguese Language Page. U of Chicago. 1 May 1997
<http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/port/>
Personal Site
Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 May 1997
<http://www.chass/utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>
Book
Nesbit, E[dith]. Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. London, 1908.
Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997.

Indiana U. 26 April 1997

<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. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 April 1997

<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html#p9>

Article in a Reference Database
"Fresco." Britannica Online. Version 97.1.1. March 1997. Encyclopaedia
Britannica. 29 March 1977 <http://www.eb.com:180>
Article in a Journal
Flannagan, Roy. "Reflections on Milton and Ariosto." Early Modern
Literary Studies 2.3 (1996): 16 pars. 22 Feb 1997

<http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/02-3/flanmilt.html>

Article in a Magazine
Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May
1997. 2 May 1997

<http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/Economics.asp>

Posting to a Discussion List
Merrian, Joanne. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre." Online posting. 30 Apr.
1994. Shaksper: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference. 27

Aug 1997

<http://www.arts.ubc.ca/english/iemls/shak/MONSTERP_SPINOFF.txt>

Entries should contain as many items from the list below as are relevant and available.
    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)
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