Websites
This guide is for the 9th edition of the MLA Handbook (2021).
Page or Document on a Website
For URLs you can omit “http://”. Include as much of the following information that is provided:
Author. "Title of Page/Document." Name of
Website, Publisher/s, day Mon. year, URL.
Dunn, William, and Linda West. "Newfoundland
Joins Confederation: A Brief History of
Newfoundland." Canada: A Country by
Consent, Artistic Productions, 2011,
www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1949/
1949-02-nfld-history.html.
If the website title and the publisher are essentially the same, you can leave out the publisher (p. 165):
O’Dell, Lauren. “The Stiles Cove Path from
Start to Finish.” Destination St. John’s, 25
June 2021, destinationstjohns.com/stiles
-cove-path-from-start-to-finish/.
If an organization is both the author and publisher, skip the author and begin the entry with the work’s title (p. 119):
“From Garden to Classroom: Activity and
Resource Guide.” Memorial University,
MUN Botanical Garden / NSERC, Nov.
2011, www.mun.ca/botgarden/learn/
fromgardentoclassroom.pdf.
No Author?
If no author is available, begin with the title instead:
“The History of the Northern Cod Fishery:
Atlantic Fishing Methods.” Centre for
Distance Learning and Innovation, 1996,
www.cdli.ca/cod/history6.htm.
No Date?
Use the date you accessed it instead. Date of access goes at the end of the entry.
"Hiking Etiquette.” East Coast Trail, www.gov.
nl.ca/tcar/files/creat_exp_toolkit.pdf.
Accessed 26 July 2021.
For more examples, see the MLA Handbook 9th edition, in reference and on reserve at the library, call number: LB 2369 M53 2021.