Citations - Statewide: Websites

Website Citations in MLA

Color Coding Legend
Author(s) or Editor(s) Title of Book, Periodical, Album or Site Title of Article, Section, Chapter or Song Volume & Issue Medium of Publication
City of Publication Publisher Date Pages Other Information
Source In-Text Citation Works Cited Page Citations

Entire Website

(with editor, with author and without author)

 

 

Format:

If you are citing an entire website you may omit the page number or any other reference number. Try to use the author or editor’s name (if no author/editor use the title) in the text but if not, put it in the parenthetical citation.

 

Example (with author/editor):

In the text:

Felluga reports….

OR

Parenthetical Citation:

(Felluga)

Format (with editor/author):

Editor, author, or compiler name. Name of Site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), Day Month Year Published, URL. Accessed Day Month Year.

Example (with author):

Felluga, DinoGuide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003, www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/. Accessed 10 May 2006.

Example (with editor):

Crane, Gregory, editor. The Perseus Digital Library. Dept. of Classics, Tufts U, 21 Mar. 2014, www.perseus.tufts.edu. Accessed 22 July 2014.

Format (no author)

Name of Site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), Day Month Year Published (if available), URL. Accessed Day Month Year.

Example (no author):

Purdue Online Writing Lab. Purdue University, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. Accessed 23 Apr. 2008.

Page on a Website

Example:

In the text:

According to Lundman,….

Parenthetical Citation:

(Lundman)

Format:

Page Author Name (If available). “Title of the Short Work”.  Name of Site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), Day Month Year Published (if available), URL. Accessed Day Month Year

Example:

Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow. Demand Media, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html. Accessed 6 July 2015.

Newspaper or Magazine Article from Website​

Format:
If no page number, just use author’s last name.

(Author last name page number).

Example: 
(Thompson)

Format:

Author Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Newspaper/MagazineDay Month Year Published on website, URL. Accessed Day Month Year.

Example:

Thompson, Carolyn. "Web Love Triangle Ends in a Tragedy." USA Today.  22 Jan. 2007www.usatoday30.com/tech/news/2007-01-22-web-love-triangle_x.htm. Accessed 23 July 2009.​