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MLA Citation Examples

Format of websites

Elements:

  1. Author.
  2. "Title of Webpage."
  3. Name of Website,
  4. Name of Publishing Organization, (if different than name of website)
  5. Publication Date,
  6. URL.

Format:

Author. "Title of Webpage." Name of Website, Name of Publishing Organization (if different than name of website), date, URL.

See specific examples below.

Author is an individual

Inskeep, Steve. "In Iran, A Poet's 700-Year-Old Verses Still Set Hearts Aflame." NPR, 12 Feb. 2016, www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/02/12/466408554/in-iran-a-poets-700-year-old-verses-still-set-hearts-aflame.

No indivudal author

"Paul Laurence Dunbar." Poetry Foundation, 2016, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/paul-laurence-dunbar.

Because there is no individual author, the citation will start with the title of the webpage.