CitATION IN MLA 8

WEBSITES

  • Author or editor names (if available)
  • Article name in quotation marks.
  • Title of the website, project, or book in italics.
  • Any version numbers available, including editions, revisions, posting dates, volumes (vol.), or issue numbers (no.).
  • Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date.
  • Take note of any page numbers (p. or pp.) or paragraph numbers (par. or pars.).
  • URL (omit the https://)
  • Date you accessed the material (Accessed date).


EXAMPLES (WITH LINKS TO SEE THE SITE THEY ARE REFERENCING)

Links are provided here to show how the elements of the site translate to the citation entry. You would not include such links in your bibliography.

Smith, Diane. “In Shelley or Auden, in the Sonnet or Free Verse, The Eerily Intimate Power of Poetry to Console.” New York Times, 1 Oct. 2001. nytimes.com. Accessed 4 Jan. 2018.

SEE THE SITE

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. "NIH Initiative to End the Opioid Crisis." National Institutes of Health. nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/opioid-crisis. Accessed on 4 Jan. 2018.

SEE THE SITE