Works Cited Entry Format:

Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Website or Publication Name, Publisher (if different from website name), Day Month Year, URL.

Example:

Brooks, Rebecca. "The Real Science Behind Frankenstein." History Today, 15 Jan. 2023, www.historytoday.com/real-science-frankenstein.

Notes:

• Omit "https://" from URLs.

• SECOND AND ALL SUBSEQUENT LINES MUST HAVE A HANGING INDENT

• Omit the publisher if it's the same as the website name.

• If no date is available, omit it entirely (don't write "n.d.").

• Access dates are optional in MLA 9 but can be added at the end if the content may change: Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.

In-Text Citation Format:

Author's last name and page number (if available):

(Brooks 12)

If no page numbers (common for online articles):

(Brooks)

Author named in the sentence:

Brooks argues that Shelley drew heavily from contemporary scientific debates.

Two authors:

(Smith and Johnson)

Three or more authors:

(Smith et al.)

For an online article with no author in MLA 9:

Works Cited:

Start with the article title in quotation marks.

"Title of Article." Website Name, Day Month Year, URL.

Example:

"Climate Change and Coastal Erosion." National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2024, www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-erosion.

In-Text:

Use a shortened version of the title in quotation marks:

("Climate Change")

Or if the full title is short enough, use it all:

("Climate Change and Coastal Erosion")

Key points:

• The shortened title should begin with the same word the Works Cited entry begins with (so readers can locate it easily)

• Keep the quotation marks in the parenthetical citation since article titles use quotation marks

• If the article title were italicized (like a book or website name), the shortened title would also be italicized in the in-text citation