MLA: Web Site Postings
N.B. It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available at one date may no longer be available later. Be sure to include the complete address for the site. Also, note the use of angled brackets around the electronic address; MLA requires them for clarity.
- Web Site Postings
Author(s). Name of Page. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of
institution/organization affiliated with the site. Date of Access
<electronic address>.
- Web Page (example)
Felluga, Dino. Undergraduate Guide to Literary Theory. 17 Dec. 1999. Purdue
University. 15 November 2000 <http://omni.cc.purdue.edu
%7Efelluga/theory2.html>.
- An article on a web site
N.B. It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available at one date may no longer be available later. Be sure to include the complete address for the site. Also, note the use of angled brackets around the electronic address; MLA requires them for clarity.
Author(s)."Article Title." Name of web site. Date of posting/ revision.
Name of Institution/organization affiliated with site. Date of access
<electronic address>.
- Article on a web site (example)
Poland, Dave. "The Hot Button." Roughcut. 26 Oct. 1998. Turner
Network Television. 28 Oct. 1998 <http://www.roughcut.com>.
- An article in an online journal or magazine
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume. Issue (Year):
Pages/Paragraphs. Date of Access <electronic address>.
N.B. Some electronic journals and magazines provide paragraph or page numbers; include them if available. This format is also appropriate to online magazines; as with a print version, you should provide a complete publication date rather than volume and issue number.
- Online journal article (example)
Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to
the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging
Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 33 pars. 5 Dec. 2000
<http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no6/wheelis.htm>.
- Email
Author. "Title of the message (if any)" E-mail to the author.
Date of the message.
N.B. This same format may be used for personal interviews or personal letters. These do not have titles, and the description should be appropriate. Instead of "Email to John Smith," you would have "Personal interview."
- E-mail to you (example)
Kunka, Andrew. "Re: Modernist Literature." E-mail to the
author. 15 Nov. 2000.
- Email communication between two parties, not including the Author
Neyhart, David. "Re: Online Tutoring." E-mail to Joe
Barbato. 1 Dec. 2000.
- A listserv posting
Author. "Title of Posting." Online posting. Date when material was posted
(for example:14 Mar. 1998). Name of listserv. Date of access
<electronic address>.
- Online Posting
Karper, Erin. "Welcome!" Online posting. 23 Oct. 2000.
Professional Writing Bulletin Board. 12 Nov. 2000. <http://linnell.english.purdue.edu/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000001.html>.
- An electronic database
Author. "Title of Article." Relevant information for the database.
Date of access <electronic address for retrieval>.
Provide the bibliographic data for the original source as for any other of its genre, then add the name of the database along with relevant retrival data (such as version number and/or transcript or abstract number).
- Article in a reference database on CD-ROM
"World War II." Encarta. CD-ROM. Seattle: Microsoft, 1999.
- Article from a periodically published database on CD-ROM
Reed, William. "Whites and the Entertainment Industry." Tennessee Tribune
25 Dec. 1996: 28. Ethnic NewsWatch. CD-ROM. Data Technologies.
Feb. 1997.
