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MLA Style

Your guide to citations and works cited in MLA Style, 9th Edition

Web Page with a Corporate Author

The corporate author or organization sponsoring the website is often also the title of the entire website. If this is the case, skip the author information and begin the works cited entry with the title of the web page or section, in quotation marks. The corporate author or sponsoring organization's name will appear as the web site title, in italics.

Work Cited

Corporate Author or Organization. "Title of Web Page." Title of Web Site in Italics, Date, URL (omit the http:// or https://)

"Climate Change and Health." World Health Organization, 1 Feb. 2018, www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs266/en/index.html.

In-text Citation

If there are no page numbers, as is often the case with websites, omit page numbers in the citation.

(Author or "Title of Page" where Author is omitted).

("Climate Change and Health").

Wiki Entry (Including Wikipedia)

Work Cited

"Title of Entry." Title of Wiki, URL of entry. Accessed Day Month Year.

"Shawn Carpenter." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Carpenter. Accessed 19 Oct. 2016.

In-text Citation

("Title of Entry in Quotation Marks").

("Shawn Carpenter").

Blog Post

Work Cited

 Author Surname, Author Given Name (username if author not given). "Title of Blog Post." Name of Blog, Day Month Year of post, URL. Date of Access.

Chu, Lauren. "Does It Matter How Many Countries You Visit?" The Ridgeline Report, 19 May 2019, theridgelinereport.com/counting-countries. 11 Nov. 2021.

In-text Citation

(Author Surname).

(Chu).

Web Page with No Author

When an author is not listed on a webpage, skip the author element and begin the works cited entry with the title, in quotation marks. 

Work Cited

"Title of Web Page.” Title of Website in Italics, Date, URL (omit the http:// or https://)

“One Health and Disease: Tick-Borne Disease.” National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 19 Oct. 2019, www.nps.gov/articles/one-health-disease-ticks-borne.htm.

In-text Citation

If there are no page numbers, as is often the case with websites, omit page numbers in the citation.

("Title of Page").

(“One Health and Disease”).

Open License Statement

MLA Style by Centennial College Libraries is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license unless otherwise stated.

About Web Page Publication Dates

Look at the top and bottom of the web page for a publication or last revised date.

Dates in the works cited list should be given as fully as they appear in your source. Include times and time zone information when available.

If no date is available, omit this element from your works cited entry, but include an accessed date following the location information.

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