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How to cite every common source in MLA 9th edition, from web pages and journal articles to poems, plays, films, and course materials.
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How to Cite a Website in MLA
Cite a webpage, blog post, Wikipedia article, or entire site in MLA 9. Official Style Center Deresiewicz–Burns–Pendragon–Barolini strings, leftover-Deresiewicz-01-space, leftover-Common-Core-ELA-Literacy-404, leftover-citing-web-pages-8th-versus-5.131, and the webpage-versus-digitized-book test.
How to Cite a Journal Article in MLA
Cite a print, database, DOI, or HTML journal article in MLA 9. Official Handbook 5.84–5.93 / 5.96 rules, live Goldman–Baron–Adams–Johns strings, leftover-Goldman-2016-without-spring, leftover-Johns-hyphen, leftover-Boyd-URL-space, and the article-number test.
How to Cite a Book in MLA 9
Cite a print book, e-book, numbered edition, translation, audiobook, or database book in MLA 9. leftover-eighth-edition-banner, leftover-et-al-116-22, leftover-Jane-Eyre-Dunn-3rd-versus-Lutz-4th, leftover-Heaney-Audible-B002V5CVPY-503, leftover-Purdue-city, leftover-doi-and-url-https-10.
How to Cite a Work in an Anthology in MLA 9
Cite an essay, story, poem, excerpt, or standalone novel from an anthology in MLA 9. leftover-cite-work-within-a-work, leftover-eighth-edition-banner, leftover-Poe-Po e, leftover-Lewalski-Paradise-space, leftover-doi-and-url-https-10.
How to Cite a Newspaper Article in MLA
Cite a print, website, or database newspaper story in MLA 9. Official Style Center Victor–Pfanner–Soloski strings, leftover-Tribune-editorial-404, leftover-Pfanner-rendezvous-now-archive, leftover-eighth-edition-banner, and the newspaper-versus-journal test.
How to Cite Social Media Posts in MLA 9
Cite X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Reddit in MLA 9. Official Handbook §5.16 handle test, Style Center platform examples, leftover-Fogarty-status-space, leftover-access-dates-for-social-media, leftover-OWL-NASA-placeholder, and the X-container rule.
How to Cite a YouTube Video in MLA
Cite a YouTube video, uploaded film, interview, or TV episode in MLA 9. Official Style Center Pretty Hurts–Capybara–Moby Dick–MASH strings, leftover-Capybara-404, leftover-MASH-YouTub-e, leftover-Buffy-The-hyphen, leftover-Purdue-same-author-uploader, and the uploader-versus-creator test.
How to Cite a Podcast in MLA
MLA 9 Works Cited for a podcast episode: official Style Center Gladwell, Chang, Bianculli, and Yiyun Li examples, the Revisionist History season URL that now redirects to Pushkin, the dead WNYC Writer's Voice path, website versus Podcasts-app containers, §6.28 timestamps, and transcript rules.
How to Cite an Interview in MLA 9
Cite a published, YouTube, radio, e-mail, or personal interview in MLA 9. leftover-missing-Bechdel-Chute, leftover-missing-Washington-Jordan, leftover-Purdue-Personal-interview, leftover-Coates-On-versus-on, leftover-eighth-edition-banner.
How to Cite a Film or TV Show in MLA
Cite a movie, TV episode, remake, streaming-app copy, or film score in MLA 9. Official Style Center examples (Opening Night, Law and Order, Asteroid City, Sinners), timestamps, and Works Cited templates.
How to Cite a Poem or Short Story in MLA
Cite the copy you read in MLA 9: line numbers versus pages, numbered sonnets, two Dickinson versions, stanza slashes, and official Style Center examples for poems and short stories. leftover-eighth-edition-banner, leftover-Hemans-1.3.3, leftover-Dickinson-em-dash-versus-spaced-hyphen, leftover-Heaney-Norton-2000-versus-FSG-2000, leftover-Munro-20-Dec-versus-27-Dec, leftover-Purdue-fewer-than-three.
How to Cite a Play in MLA
Cite a play in MLA 9 from the copy or night you used: published script, unpublished typescript, anthology, festival bill, recording, or e-book with paragraph numbers. Official Style Center examples, not invented lineation.
How to Cite a Painting, Photograph, or Artwork in MLA
Cite the version of a painting, photograph, sculpture, or museum image you actually saw in MLA 9: in person, on a museum site, on Wikimedia Commons, in a book, or as a figure caption. leftover-eighth-edition-banner, leftover-Liberty-Puzzles-mona-lisa-404, leftover-ATM-project-song-thrush-404, leftover-Turner-hyphen-space, leftover-Daley-title-quotes, leftover-Cassatt-Fig-1-versus-Fig-5.
How to Cite a Government Document in MLA
Cite a government document in MLA 9: the handbook §5.20 name-as-presented path, the Style Center version-you-consulted rule, and official Works Cited examples for reports, the U.S. Code, orders, constitutions, and UN texts.
How to Cite a Syllabus, Lecture, or LMS File in MLA
Cite a syllabus, live lecture, Canvas or Blackboard slide, course pack, discussion post, or classmate paper in MLA 9. Official Style Center examples, including the 17 June 2026 notes-versus-presentation rule.