The following is a list of the information that you will provide for each cited source in your research

paper. Sources contain as many items from the list below as are relevant and available; this means that
they might provide all of them or only some of them. For any source that you cite, if any of the below
are not available, they can be skipped. These are also listed in order of how they should appear in each
works cited entry. To see samples of various types of works cited entries in the most recent MLA format,
see the Purdue Owl’s MLA Sample Works Cited Page online.

 Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source (if given), reversed for
alphabetizing and, if appropriate, followed by an abbreviation, such as ed.

 Title of an article, literary work, or similar short work in the Internet site (enclosed in quotation
marks).

 Title of a book (italicized).

 Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant and if not cited earlier),
preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such as Ed.

 Publication information for any print version of the source.

 Title of the Internet site (e.g., scholarly project, database, online periodical, or professional or
personal site (italicized) or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as
Home page

 Name of the editor of the site (if given)

 Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume number, issue
number, or other identifying number.

 Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting. This is formatted as [day]
[abbreviated month] [year].

 For a work from a library subscription service, the name of the service and--if a library or a
consortium of libraries is the subscriber--the name and geographic location (e.g., city, state
abbreviation) of the subscriber (italicized).

 The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are
numbered.

 Name of any institution or organization sponsoring the site (if not cited earlier).

 URL of the source or, if the URL is impractically long and complicated, the URL of the site's
search page. Or, for a document from a subscription service, the URL of the service's home page,
if known; or the keyword assigned by the service, preceded by Keyword; or the sequence of links
followed, preceded by Path.
 Date when the researcher accessed the source. This is an optional entry, but it is very helpful to
the reader. This is formatted with the word “Accessed” and the [day] [abbreviated month]
[year]. Its inclusion is recommended.