Short work from a Web site

Works cited entry (with author)

Shiva, Vandana. “Bioethics: A Third World Issue.” NativeWeb. NativeWeb, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2006.

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Works cited entry (author unknown)

“Living Old.” Frontline. WGBH Educ. Foundation, 21 Nov. 2006. Web. 19 Jan. 2009.

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Explain

Short works include articles, poems, and other documents that are not book length or that appear as internal pages on a Web site. Give as much of the following information as is available:

  • the author’s name

  • the title of the short work, in quotation marks

  • the title of the site, italicized

  • the sponsor of the site, using common MLA abbreviations (use “N.p.” if there is no sponsor)

  • the date of publication or most recent update

  • the medium (“Web”)

  • your date of access

Note on using a URL in a works cited entry

If your instructor requires a URL for Web sources, include the URL, enclosed in angle brackets, at the end of the entry.

Shiva, Vandana. “Bioethics: A Third World Issue.” NativeWeb. NativeWeb, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2006. <http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html>.

When a URL in a works cited entry must be divided at the end of a line, break it after a slash. Do not insert a hyphen.

Directory to MLA works cited models

Citation at a glance: Short work from a Web site (MLA)

Exercise: MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources

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Exercise: MLA documentation: Works cited 2

Exercise: MLA documentation: Works cited 3

Exercise: MLA documentation