MLA Web Site Citation
Web sources may require you to look in more than one place for the information you need to complete your citation.
These are standard elements that can be included in a citation for a website. Remember that some of these elements may not be available.
Examples:
Chou, Ben. “The Water-Energy Nexus Is Not What You Expect.” GreenBiz, 23 Aug. 2016,
www.greenbiz.com/.
Landau, Elizabeth, and Preston Dyches. “35 Years On, Voyager's Legacy Continues at Saturn.” Edited by
Tony Greicius, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 24 Aug. 2016, www.nasa.
gov/feature/jpl/35-years-on-voyagers-legacy-continues-at-saturn.
McCarthy, Gina, and Anthony Foxx. “Addressing Climate Change and Unleashing Innovation with Cleaner Trucks.”
EPA Connect: EPA Blog, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 16 Aug. 2016,
blog.epa.gov/blog/2016/08/addressing-climate-change-and-unleashing-innovation-with-cleaner-trucks/.
"What Is NAAL?" National Assessment of Adult Literacy, Institute of Education Sciences: National Center for
Education Statistics, 2016, nces.ed.gov/naal/.
Blogs, Comments, Tweets, and Email will following the standard format involving titles and containers that are used for other entries. Here a some examples to aid you in preparing these entries.
Blog:
Sarvas, Mark. "My Top 10 Banned Literary Essay List." The Elegant Variation, 19 Feb. 2014,
marksarvas.blogs.com/.
Comments:
Small, Alex. Comment on "Welcome Freshmen. Look at Me When I Talk to You." Chronicle of Higher Education,
11 Sept. 2016, www.chronicle.com/article/Welcome-Freshmen-Look-at-Me/237751#comment-2888500129.
E-mail:
Jordan, Andrew R. "Re: Attendance Policy." Received by Jessica Robertson, 29 Aug. 2016.
When documenting an e-mail message, ukske its subject as the title. The subject is enclosed in quotation marks. Standard capitalization applies.
Tweet:
@ChasingtheMeso."Moving on to the championship." Twitter, 11 Sept. 2016, 8:39 p.m.,
twitter.com/ChasingtheMeso/.
Identify a short untitled message, such as a tweet, by reproducing its full text, without changes, in place of a title. Enclose the text in quotation marks.
