How to Cite from the World Wide Web ?
The following information is taken from the mla.org website :
{ Sources on the World Wide Web that students and scholars use in their research include scholarly projects, reference databases, the texts of books, articles in periodicals, and professional and personal sites. Entries in a works-cited list for such sources contain as many items from the list below as are relevant and available. Following this list are sample entries for some common kinds of Web sources.
Scholarly Project
Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry
Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997
<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>.
Professional Site
Portuguese Language Page. U of Chicago. 1 May
1997 <http://humanities.uchicago.edu/
romance/port/>.
Personal Site
Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 May 1997 <http://
www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/
index.html>.
Book
Nesbit, E[dith]. Ballads and Lyrics of
Socialism. London, 1908. Victorian Women
Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr.
1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997 <http://
www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/
ballsoc.html>.
Poem
Nesbit, E[dith]. "Marching Song." Ballads and
Lyrics of Socialism. London, 1908.
Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry
Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997
<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/
ballsoc.html#p9>.
Article in a Reference Database
"Fresco." Britannica Online. Vers. 97.1.1. Mar.
1997. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 29 Mar.
1997 <http://www.eb.com:180>.
Article in a Journal
Flannagan, Roy. "Reflections on Milton and
Ariosto." Early Modern Literary Studies
2.3 (1996): 16 pars. 22 Feb. 1997 <http://
unixg.ubc.ca:7001/O/e-sources/emls/02-3/
flanmilt.html>.
Article in a Magazine
Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the
Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 2 May 1997
<http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/
Economics.asp>.
Work from a Subscription Service
Koretz, Gene. "Economic Trends: Uh-Oh, Warm
Water." Business Week 21 July 1997:
22.
Electric Lib. Sam Barlow High School Lib.,
Gresham, OR. 17 Oct. 1997 <http://
www.elibrary.com/>.
"Table Tennis." Compton's Encyclopedia Online.
Vers. 2.0. 1997. America Online. 4 July
1998. Keyword: Compton's.
Posting to a Discussion List
Merrian, Joanne. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece
Theatre." Online posting. 30 Apr. 1994.
Shaksper: The Global Electronic Shakespeare
Conf. 27 Aug. 1997 <http://www.arts.ubc.ca/
english/iemls/shak/MONSTERP_SPINOFF.txt>.
In parenthetical references in the text, works on the World Wide Web are cited just like printed works. For any type of source, you must include information in your text that directs readers to the correct entry in the works-cited list (see the MLA Handbook, sec. 5.2). Web documents generally do not have fixed page numbers or any kind of section numbering. If your source lacks numbering, you have to omit numbers from your parenthetical references.
If your source includes fixed page numbers or section numbering (such as numbering of paragraphs), cite the relevant numbers. Give the appropriate abbreviation before the numbers: "(Moulthrop, pars. 19-20)." (Pars. is the abbreviation for paragraphs. Common abbreviations are listed in the MLA Handbook, sec. 6.4.) For a document on the Web, the page numbers of a printout should normally not be cited, because the pagination may vary in different printouts.}