When citing sources you first have to decide what you want to cite.

Are you citing a page on a website?

Or a whole website?

Once you decide that you can then go to https://owl.english.purdue.edu/ You want to click on the MLA formatting Guide on the right side.

You then want either the in-text citations or works cited information. Specifically the electronic works cited entries since it is a website.

You will have to then scroll down the page, and you will have to do some reading to determine the information you need. The website first gives you some overviews of electronic MLA format. You may need to read this information to fully understand the rest of the website. Once you have read the general overview, scan for the heading you need. If you are citing an entire website it looks like this:

You are citing just a webpage it looks like this:

Use this information to write your works cited page. If you forgot how to set up a works cited page you should click on (1), if you want to see a sample works cited you should click (2) or if you want to figure out how to cite in-text you should click (3).

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Remember, no matter what, it is going to take a little bit of time and reading to figure it out. If youre still unsure, you can always cross reference with another website to see what they say. Some suggested ones are: http://www.easybib.com/reference/guide/mla/website (note this is an article about citing not the machine that cites it for you) http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/MLA/website http://www.virtualsalt.com/mla.htm (scroll down to see the real information)