MLA website citation
The MLA 9th edition format for a website, a finished example, and a generator below that fills it in for you.
Author Last, First. “Title of Page.” Website Name, Day Mon. Year, URL.
“Climate Change and Health.” World Health Organization, 12 Oct. 2023, www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health.
Parenthetical: (“Climate Change and Health”)
Watch out: The page title goes in quotation marks, the website in italics, and you drop https:// from the URL.
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Tips for citing a website
- Cite the specific page, not the home page. Copy the URL from the address bar of the page you actually used.
- No author? APA and Chicago move the title into the author position; MLA simply starts with the title.
- No date? APA writes (n.d.), Harvard writes (no date), and MLA adds an access date at the end instead.
- If the organisation and the website name are the same, APA and MLA list the name only once.
See this source in all four styles side by side: how to cite a website. For the rest of the paper, read the MLA format guide.
MLA website citation questions
What is the MLA format for a website?
Author Last, First. “Title of Page.” Website Name, Day Mon. Year, URL.
What do students most often get wrong?
The page title goes in quotation marks, the website in italics, and you drop https:// from the URL.
Do I need an access date?
APA 7 only for pages that are designed to change (like a live dashboard). MLA 9 recommends one when the page has no publication date. Harvard (Cite Them Right) always includes one for web sources. Chicago asks for it only when there is no publication or revision date.
Should I remove “https://” from the URL?
In MLA 9 it is recommended to drop http:// or https://. APA 7, Chicago and Harvard keep the full URL.
Is the website name in italics?
In MLA the website (the container) is italicised. In APA 7 the site name is plain text, and the page title is italicised instead. In Chicago, a website title is set in roman (plain) text unless it is a book or journal.