For any source you use in your essay, your citation should include as many of these elements:
Author: Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial.
"Title of article, chapter, or webpage"
Title of magazine, newspaper, journal, or website (longer work)
Publisher (if available)
Date Month Year (if available)
URL
MLA citations are designed around the idea of containers. For example:
You can see how the containers work and the different elements needed in this interactive template. You fill in the template with the information that is available. If the source does not give you a piece of information, like a date, just skip that space and go to the next element. The amount of information available will vary depending on each source.
Set-up:
Example:
► When there are two authors: Last name, first name, and first name, last name.
► When there are three or more authors: Last name, first name, et. al. (et al. means "and more" and indicates there are more than two authors).
► If there is no author listed, start your citation with the title of the "title of the article, chapter, or webpage."
► Many scholarly journal articles have a unique identifier called a DOI (digital object identifier). If you see a DOI on the article, use that at the end of your citation. If there is no DOI on the article or the record, that's fine; use the permalink or URL instead.
► Dates should be set up like this: 20 Sept. 2023 (day month abbreviated year). If there is only a year available, list just the year.