MLA+Format+8th+Edition+Rules

The following updated rules excerpts are taken from Owl Purdue Online Writing Lab
What's New and Different/MLA Works Cited Electronic Sources

Abbreviations Commonly Used with Electronic Sources
If publishing information is unavailable for entries that require publication information such as publisher (or sponsor) names and publishing dates, MLA requires the use of special abbreviations to indicate that this information is not available.


 * Use **n.p. ** to indicate that neither a publisher nor a sponsor name has been provided.
 * Use ** n.d. ** when the Web page does not provide a publication date.
 * Use the abbreviation ** n. pag. ** when an entry requires that you provide a page but no pages are provided in the source

Basic Style for Citations of Electronic Sources (Including Online Databases)
Here are some common features you should try and find before citing electronic sources in MLA style. Collect as much of the following information as possible both for your citations and for your research notes:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Author and/or editor names (if available)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Title of the Website, project, or book in italics.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numbers.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take note of any page numbers (if available).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Medium of publication.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Date you accessed the material.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">URL (**if required**, or for your own personal reference; MLA does not require a URL).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An entire website:

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.

===**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site ****<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access. **=== (After the first line, all subsequent lines are indented 5 spaces)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A page on a website:

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For an individual page on a Web site, list the author or alias if known, followed by the information covered above for entire Web sites. Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.

===**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Athelete's Foot - Topic Overview." WebMD. WebMD, 25 September 2014. Web. 6 July 2015. **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [website with no author] ===

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A print book:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Eighth edition (the new way):

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford UP, 2011. **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this version, only the most essential information is included (author’s name, book title, publisher, and date) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Note that the city of publication is not needed, and the medium of publication is eliminated.[...]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Seventh edition (the old way):

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. Print.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A scholarly journal:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eighth edition [the new way]:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This version identifies the volume (24), the number (2), and the page numbers (620-26) of the scholarly journal, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;"> rather than leaving those numbers without clear explanation.[...]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seventh edition [the old way]: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Kinkaid, Jamaica. “In History.” Callaloo 24.2 (Spring 2001): 620-26. Web.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Source:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 16 May 2016.