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MLA Citation Style 9th Edition

This guide will help you cite sources in MLA Citation Style 9th Edition.

Page or Document from a Website

Citation Recipe

  1. Author.    Quade, Alex.
  2. Title of source.      "Elite Team Rescues Troops behind Enemy Lines."
  3. Title of container,     CNN.com,
  4. Other contributors,    
  5. Version,
  6. Number,    
  7. Publishers,    
  8. Publication date,     19 Mar. 2007,
  9. Location.     www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/15/search.rescue/index.html?iref=newssearch.

Example

In-Text Citation

(Quade)

Works Cited

Quade, Alex. "Elite Team Rescues Troops behind Enemy Lines." CNN.com, 19 Mar. 2007, www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/15/search.rescue/index.html?iref=newssearch.

Tips

Check How to Build a Citation to learn how to find and format individual elements of the citation.

If an element is not present (e.g., other contributors), leave it out.

See the MLA Handbook for more examples.

The file type will not impact the citation. To cite a PDF source, determine the type of source (e.g. website, book, article, etc.) and use the format for that source type.