Citing Online Sources

According to the MLA, here's the precedence of citing online information:

• author
  

• title of article/page (in quotation marks)
  

• title of site (underlined)
  

• date (updated/posted/copyrighted)
  

• name of site sponsor (institution/organization/etc.)

• number of paragraphs
  

• date accessed
  

• URL
  

Examples:

"Jane Austen Information Page." Ed. Henry Churchyard. 6 Sept. 2000. The Republic of Pemberley. 32 pars. 15 Nov. 2003 http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html.

"Selected Seventh-Century Events." Romantic Chronology. Ed. Laura Mandell and Alan Liu. 1999. U of California, Santa Barbara. 24 pars. 22 Mar. 2004 http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/.

"The William Faulkner Society Home Page." Ed. Gail Mortimer. 5 Oct. 2003. William Faulkner Soc. 8 pars. 1 Nov. 2003 http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/faulkner/.

"William Faulkner on the Web." 7 July 1999. U of Mississippi. 24 pars. 26 Mar. 2004 http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html.

Also, remember that

• there is no period (.) after the date before the URL
• the entry ends with a period (.)
  

Created Nov. 17, 2003 Updated Apr. 11, 2007