Full citation for a webpage (MLA style, 8th ed.)
For reliable webpages, you need to identify the following Core Elements, then compile them in the following order to create a full citation. (Scroll down to view examples of full citations.)
| 1. The author’s name for the content: Lastname, Firstname. [Alternatively: use the Name of the Organization.] 2. Title of the web page, "Written in Quotation Marks." 3. Title of the overall website, Written in Italics, 4. Publisher of the website, [a.k.a. name of the hosting organization] 5. Specific date of publication or last update, written Day Month Year, Examples: 22 Jan. 2011 8 Feb. 2015 30 July 2020 19 Oct. 2008 6. URL (web address) for the source. 7. Date of access is optional, but if your professors want it, then share it as follows: "Accessed 10 May 2021." |
Citations should...
- be double-spaced
- use hanging indentation (all lines beyond the first line are indented 1/2 inch)
- be alphabetized
Sample Citations
Here are sample citations for the two sources used as models of in-text citations.
