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.