Citing a Short Work from a Web Site

*** Use one of the articles on a website you found for your research paper, and complete the following activity on writing a citation for a short work from a website.

Web address (URL) of your short work:

Fill in all the information needed to cite a short work from a website on a works cited page in MLA format: (NOTE: Not all of the information will be available for every website. Include as much of the listed information as possible and skip those that your site does not provide.)

1. Author’s name (last, first): 2. Title of the short work (in quotation marks): 3. Title of the site (underlined): 4. Date of publication, or last update (day/month/year): 5. Sponsor of the site: 6. Date you accessed the site: (day/month/year): 7. The URL (in angle brackets <>):

Now that you have all the information, how you do you write it up for the works cited page? Look in your MLA handbook and follow the guidelines or use this little tip:

Use the information in the order above making sure you double space, indent all the lines after the first line, and place a period after each separate item (except between the date you accessed the site and the website use the < instead).

Write your MLA works cited entry for a short work from a web site: