MLA Citation Style 9th Edition: World Wide Web Sources

NOTE:

• MLA Handbook suggests including date of access for online works (day, month, and year) (MLA 5.111).
• Cite containers such as collections of short stories or poems, a television series, or even a website. 
• If you cannot locate any of the above components but found them in a reliable external source, cite them in square brackets (MLA 5.122). Otherwise, leave them out.

Citation example (basic web page):

Toppo, Greg. “Do Video Games Inspire Violent Behavior?” Scientific American, Springer Nature, 1 July 2015, www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-video-games-inspire-violent-behavior/. Accessed 5 Sept. 2016.

Padgett, John B. “William Faulkner on the Web: An Introduction.” WFotW ~ Introduction to Faulkner on the Web, The University of Mississippi, 10 Oct. 2000, www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/intro.html. Accessed 31 Aug. 2016.

Citation format:

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number, Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available), URL (with http :// or https:// if you submit the paper online), DOI or permalink. Date of access (if applicable).

MLA Style. Modern Language Association, 2016, www.mla.org/MLA-Style. Accessed 1 Sept. 2016. 

U. S. Department of Education. US Dept. of Education, www.ed.gov. Accessed 6 Sept. 2016.

Moss, Cindy. Skyline College. Instructor Page. Fall 2016, accounts.smccd.edu/moss/. Accessed 6 Sept. 2016.

An online book may be the electronic text of part or all of a printed book, or a book-length document available only on the Internet (e.g., a work of hyperfiction).

Bird, Isabella L. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. Victorian Women Writers Project, general editor, Perry Willett, Indiana University, 20 Apr. 1998, www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/bird/rocky.html. Accessed 7 Sept. 2016.

Bryant, Peter J. "The Age of Mammals." Biodiversity and Conservation, University of California, 2002, darwin.bio.uci.edu/sustain/bio65/lec02/b65lec02.htm. Accessed 7 Sept. 2016.

Wiwanitkit, Viroj. "Emerging Zika virus infection: What should we know." Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, vol. 6, no. 7, July 2016, pp. 551–553. ScienceDirect, doi:10.1016/j.apjtb.2016.03.014. Accessed 7 Sept. 2016.

Citation format:

Author Last Name, First Name. "Article title." Title of the web magazine, publisher name, publication date, URL (with http :// or https:// if you submit the paper online). The date of access.

Main, Douglas. "We've Destroyed One-Tenth of Earth’s Wilderness In The Last 20 Years." Newsweek, 8 Sept. 2016, www.newsweek.com/one-tenth-earths-wilderness-destroyed-last-20-years-496706. Accessed 8 Sept. 2016.

Citation format:

Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Name of Website, Sponsor/Publisher of Website, Date of last update, URL with http :// or https:// if you submit the paper online). Date of Access. 

Lattin, Don. "Religions Have Complicated Role in Globalization." SF Gate, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 February 2003, www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/23/LV133895.DTL. Accessed 7 Sept. 2016.

Bilmes, Linda J., and Joseph E. Stiglitz. "The Iraq War will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More." Washingtonpost.com, Washington Post, 9 March 2008, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html. Accessed 8 Sept. 2016.

Collins, Billy. "More than a Woman." Poetry Magazine. Poetry Foundation, February 2002, www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=41394. Accessed 1 Sept 2016.

Nesbit, Edith. "Marching Song." Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. London, 1908. Victorian Women Writers Project, general editor, Perry Willett, Indiana University, May 2000. webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/view?docId=VAB7021;chunk.id=d1e720;toc.depth=1;toc.id=;brand=vwwp;doc.view=0;query=. Accessed 22 Aug. 2016.

"Alcatraz_island.jpg." PRBO Conservation Science, 2011, www.prbo.org/cms/images/marine/Alcatraz/Alcatraz_island.jpg. Accessed 5 Sept. 2016.

For more examples, click here "How to Cite an Image" at MLA.org

Citation description:
Artist, performer, composer, or conductor depending on which person is most responsible for the production or who you wish to emphasize. "Title of song." Title of Web site, contributor's name (if any), date the video was posted on the site, URL (include http :// or https:// for online paper). Date accessed. 

Citation example:

McLean, Don. "Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics." YouTube, Uploaded by wysty67, www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk. Accessed 23 Nov. 2016.

Citation description:
Filmmaker's name, if available. "Title." Title of Web site, contributor's name (if any), date the video was posted on the site, URL (with http :// or https:// if you submit the paper online). Date of viewing. 

Citation example:

Gallucci, Tony. "Sherman Alexie Speaks." YouTube, uploaded by Milk River Film, 9 Nov. 2007,  www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwiQb8OQ6dY. Accessed 25 Oct. 2016.

Citation description:
Title of the press release in quotations, author, date. URL (with http :// or https:// if you submit your paper online) Date accessed. Press release.

Citation example:

International  Agency for Research  on  Cancer. "Latest Global Data on Cancer Burden and Alcohol Consumption: More than 740 000 New Cases of Cancer in 2020 Attributed to Alcohol ."  World Health Organization, 14 July 2021, https://iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/pr299_E.pdf. Press release.