Use a shortened version of the website title and use that in place of the author name.
If you wanted to cite the source at right, for instance, it would look like this:
(Guglielmo Marconi 45)
Remember to abbreviate all names of months, except for May, June and July:
Jan. | Feb. | Mar. |
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Apr. | Aug. | Sept. |
Oct. | Nov. | Dec. |
When citing magazine or newspaper articles, include the day, month and year of publication (if available). Write the date in the following format:
day Mo. YYYY |
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23 Sept. 2012 |
Use the same format for the date of access.
Author (if known) last name, first name. Name of the Site. Publisher, Date of publication, URL (Location).
Note: the 8th edition no longer requires a City of Publication. The URL is optional, and you should always consult your instructor's preferences before including it.
* Note: Citations are single-spaced here, but be sure to double-space your Works Cited page.
Author (if known) last name, first name. "Title of the Page or Section." Title of Website, Name of the institution associated with the site, Date of publication, URL (Location).
Note: If the author's name and publisher's name are the same, use it in place of the publisher's name and begin the work cited entry with the title of the source. The 8th edition no longer requires a City of Publication. The URL is optional, and you should always consult your instructor's preferences before including it.
* Note: Citations are single-spaced here, but be sure to double-space your Works Cited page.
This example is from page 35 of the MLA Handbook.
If you're citing the short story, "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe which is in volume 4 of a multi-volume edition of his complete works that was published in 1902 and is available via the HathiTrust Digital Library, then that citation would look like this: