Collect as much as the following to cite websites:
- Author and/or editor names (if available)
- Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)
- Title of the website, project, or book in italics
- Publishing information: place of publication, publisher and date for books; publisher name (n.p. if not available)
- Page (p. or pp.) or paragraph (par. or pars.) numbers
- Date you accessed the material
- URL (without https://), DOI (digital object identifier) or permalink
A Page on a Website
Formula:
Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Name of Website, Day Month Year published, Url. Accessed
Day Month Year.
Example:
Fournier, Keith. "St. Michael the Archangel, Defend Us in Battle: Pope Francis Takes on the Devil."
Catholic Online, 9 Sept. 2014, http://www.catholic.org/news/national/story.php?id=55433. Accessed 22 May
2014.
Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Name of Website, Day Month Year published, Url. Accessed
Day Month Year.
Example:
Fournier, Keith. "St. Michael the Archangel, Defend Us in Battle: Pope Francis Takes on the Devil."
Catholic Online, 9 Sept. 2014, http://www.catholic.org/news/national/story.php?id=55433. Accessed 22 May
2014.
Article on a Web Magazine or Journal
Formula:
Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Edition, Year, pp. Page Range (if available).
Url. Accessed Day Month Year.
Example:
Katz, Michael B. "The Biological Inferiority of the Undeserving Poor." Social Work and Society International Online
Journal vol. 11, no.1, 2013, http://www.socwork.net/sws/article/view/359/709. Accessed 19 May 2014.
Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Edition, Year, pp. Page Range (if available).
Url. Accessed Day Month Year.
Example:
Katz, Michael B. "The Biological Inferiority of the Undeserving Poor." Social Work and Society International Online
Journal vol. 11, no.1, 2013, http://www.socwork.net/sws/article/view/359/709. Accessed 19 May 2014.
Part of a Book with Author
Formula:
Last name, First name. "Title of Chapter." Title of Book, edited by First name Last name, Publisher, Year of
Publication, pp. Page range. Host, Url.
Note: Urls from books found in a Google book search are too lengthy to include so instead simply put Google Book Search.
Example:
Zolbrod, Paul G. "When Artifacts Speak, What Can They Tell Us?." Recovering the Word: Essays on Native
American Literature. Edited by Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, University of California Press, 1987, pp. 13-40.
Google Book Search.
Example:
Cotton, John. "Advice to Colonists." Colonial Prose and Poetry, edited by William P. Trent and Benjamin W. Wells, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1901. Bartleby.com, http://www.bartleby.com/163/110.html.
Last name, First name. "Title of Chapter." Title of Book, edited by First name Last name, Publisher, Year of
Publication, pp. Page range. Host, Url.
Note: Urls from books found in a Google book search are too lengthy to include so instead simply put Google Book Search.
Example:
Zolbrod, Paul G. "When Artifacts Speak, What Can They Tell Us?." Recovering the Word: Essays on Native
American Literature. Edited by Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, University of California Press, 1987, pp. 13-40.
Google Book Search.
Example:
Cotton, John. "Advice to Colonists." Colonial Prose and Poetry, edited by William P. Trent and Benjamin W. Wells, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1901. Bartleby.com, http://www.bartleby.com/163/110.html.
Entire Book
Formula:
Last name, First name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year of Publication. Host, Url.
Note: Urls from books found in a Google book search are too lengthy to include so instead simply put Google Book Search.
Example:
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Harper, 1917. Google Book Search.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. Constable and Company, 1922. Library of Congress,
http://www.read.gov/books/pageturner/moby_dick/#page/2/mode/2up.
Last name, First name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year of Publication. Host, Url.
Note: Urls from books found in a Google book search are too lengthy to include so instead simply put Google Book Search.
Example:
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Harper, 1917. Google Book Search.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. Constable and Company, 1922. Library of Congress,
http://www.read.gov/books/pageturner/moby_dick/#page/2/mode/2up.
Poem
Formula:
Last name, First name. "Title of Poem." Title of Book, edited by First name Last name (if available), Publisher,
Year of Publication, Host, url. Accessed Day Month Year.
Example:
Carroll, Lewis. "Jabberwocky." A Victorian Anthology, edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Riverside Press,
1895, Bartleby.com, http://www.bartleby.com/246/846.html. Accessed 24 Feb. 2010.
Example:
Alexander, Meena. "Lychees." Birthplace with Buried Stones, Northwestern UP, 2013, Poetryfoundations.org,
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/56910. Accessed 19 May 2014.
Last name, First name. "Title of Poem." Title of Book, edited by First name Last name (if available), Publisher,
Year of Publication, Host, url. Accessed Day Month Year.
Example:
Carroll, Lewis. "Jabberwocky." A Victorian Anthology, edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Riverside Press,
1895, Bartleby.com, http://www.bartleby.com/246/846.html. Accessed 24 Feb. 2010.
Example:
Alexander, Meena. "Lychees." Birthplace with Buried Stones, Northwestern UP, 2013, Poetryfoundations.org,
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/56910. Accessed 19 May 2014.
Youtube Video
Formula:
Author. "Title of Video." Name of Website, upload by Name of Uploader, Day Month Year uploaded, Url.
Note: If the author and the uploader are the same, cite once; if the author and uploader are different, cite the author at the beginning of the citation.
Example:
"Cookie Monster in the Library." YouTube, uploaded by Sesame Street, 6 Aug. 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ZHPJT2Kp4.
TobyMac. "Lose My Soul." YouTube, uploaded by emimusic, 23 Apr. 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=coHKdhAZ9hU
Author. "Title of Video." Name of Website, upload by Name of Uploader, Day Month Year uploaded, Url.
Note: If the author and the uploader are the same, cite once; if the author and uploader are different, cite the author at the beginning of the citation.
Example:
"Cookie Monster in the Library." YouTube, uploaded by Sesame Street, 6 Aug. 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ZHPJT2Kp4.
TobyMac. "Lose My Soul." YouTube, uploaded by emimusic, 23 Apr. 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=coHKdhAZ9hU