How to Reference Work Cited From the Internet

If you use information gleaned from an Internet source in an academic paper or study, you will need to cite it in your references so other people can check the URL in order to verify it. Exactly how you cite the work will depend on the style guide you are using: either the Chicago Manual of Style, the Modern Language Association's style guide or the American Psychological Association's style guide. You will need to follow the rules of the style guide you are using to the letter in order for it to be correct.

Instructions

    • 1

      Start the entry with the author's name if you're using the Chicago format, beginning with the last name first, and then the title of the web page in quotation marks. Start with the web page's title if no author is listed. Next, put the name of the publishing organization or web site in italics. Put the publication date of the material or the date that you last accessed it. Finally, include the URL.

    • 2

      List the author of the page first - again, last name before the first name - if you are using the MLA format, then the name of the page in quotation marks and then the name of the website in italics. Next, include the name of the publisher and the date of publication. Write "n.p." if there is no publisher available and "n.d." if no date is given. Finally, list the date you accessed the material. You may include a URL in angle brackets at the end, but MLA does not require it.

    • 3

      List the last name and then the first name of the author of the page, as with the other styles, for APA format. Place the date of publication in parentheses immediately following the author's name, and then list the title of the article. Put the title of the website in italics, and finally write "Retrieved from" and then list the URL.

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