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MLA Citation Style Guide: 7th Edition

Article or Page from a Website

General Form: Entire Site

Creator's Last-name, First-name. Title of Site. Version number. Publisher or sponsor affilated with site (if available). Date of Creation or Update. Web. Day Month Year of access.

Example:

Price, Markie. Absolutely Pet Shop Boys. N.p. 17 April 2007. Web. 25 April 2012.


General Form: Short Piece from a Website

Creator's Last-name, First-name. “Title of Page.” Title of Site. Version number. Publisher or sponsor affilated with site (if available). Date of Creation or Update. Web. Day Month Year of access.

Example:

Walker, Brian. “Vincent Price: 1911 – 1993.” Brian’s Drive-In Theater. N.p. 9 March 2009. Web.25 April 2013

Missing Infromation?

"If publishing information is unavailable for entries that require publication information such as publisher (or sponsor) names and publishing dates, MLA requires the use of special abbreviations to indicate that this information is not available. Use n.p. to indicate that neither a publisher nor a sponsor name has been provided. Use n.d. when the Web page does not provide a publication date.

When an entry requires that you provide a page but no pages are provided in the source (as in the case of an online-only scholarly journal or a work that appears in an online-only anthology), use the abbreviation n. pag."

-- "Abbreviations Commonly Used with Electronic Sources"
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