MLA Style for Citing Web Sources

From: Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet by Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

World Wide Web (WWW) Sites

To cite files available for viewing/downloading via the World Wide Web by means of Lynx,
Netscape, or other Web browsers, provide the following information:
 

Example 1:

Burka, Lauren P. "A Hypertext History of Multi-User Dimensions."
        MUD History. 1993. <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/1pb/mud-history.html>
        (5 Dec. 1994).

(Note that this is similar to an article in a magazine, where the article title is put in quotes, and the magazine title is put in italics or underlined)

Example 2:

The citation for the document from which the information above was taken is as follows:

Harnack, Andrew and Gene Kleppinger. Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting
        Electronic Sources on the Internet. 25 November 1996.
        <http://falcon.eku.edu/honors/beyond-mla/> (17 Dec. 1997).

(Note that this example is similar to a book, which is not part of a larger work, so its title is put in italics or underlined).

Other examples for FTP sites, Telnet sites, Gopher sites, newsgroups, email messages, etc. are
available from Beyond the MLA Handbook.

Additional hints:
You are expected to look at the full page and any links from the page to a home page or other
explanatory material in order to determine the date and any author information available for the
page you are citing. If no date is found, use n.d. (for no date).

Be sure to get the full URL from your source. Long URLs may not print out when you print the
page, so you must copy the URL by hand or print out the Document Information (go to the View
menu and select Page Info).

See also MLA Style for Citing Print Sources , which includes information on parenthetical documentation in the text.



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