Using MLA, how do you cite a webpage that was originally in another language & you used babelfish to translate

Question

The original site was in Italian: http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it/framecentro.asp?musid=8&sezione=musei&tipo=
and I used http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr to get the English version.

Answer 1

I would suggest creating a citation for both cites and just directly reference the Italian webpage throughout your paper but on the works cited page include the babelfish citation to indicate it was used for translation. There is nothing in MLA format that I have found that covers this in one citation.

If you are worried abotu doing that contact your teacher or prof and ask what they would prefer you to do.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Web Sources
Web sites (in MLA style, the "W" in Web is capitalized, and "Web site" or "Web sites" are written as two words) and Web pages are arguably the most commonly cited form of electronic resource today. Below are a variety of Web sites and pages you might need to cite.

An Entire Web Site
Basic format:

Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site .

It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available on one date may no longer be available later. Be sure to include the complete address for the site. Here are some examples:

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. 23 April 2006 .

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue University. 10 May 2006 .

Treat entire Weblogs or "blogs" just as you would a Web site. For single-author blogs, include the author name (or screen name or alias, as a last resort); blogs with many authors, or an anonymous author, should be listed by the title of the blog itself:

Design Observer. 25 Apr. 2006. 10 May 2006. .

Ratliff, Clancy. CultureCat: Rhetoric and Feminism. 7 May 2006. 11 May 2006. .

Long URLs
URLs that won't fit on one line of your Works Cited list should be broken at slashes, when possible.

Some Web sites have unusually long URLs that would be virtually impossible to retype; others use frames, so the URL appears the same for each page. To address this problem, either refer to a site's search URL, or provide the path to the resource from an entry page with an easier URL. Begin the path with the word Path followed by a colon, followed by the name of each link, separated by a semicolon. For example, the Amazon.com URL for customer privacy and security information is tg/browse/-/551434/104-0801289-6225502>, so we'd need to simplify the citation:

Amazon.com. "Privacy and Security." 22 May 2006 . Path: Help; Privacy & Security.

A Page on a Web Site
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. Make sure the URL points to the exact page you are referring to, or the entry or home page for a collection of pages you're referring to:

"Caret." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. 10 May 2006 .

"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. 10 May 2006 how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html>.

Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University Writing Lab. 12 May 2006 .