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How to Document a Web Page As a Resource

Whether you are writing a paper for high school or college or creating an article for your own website, if you use a Web page as a resource, you will need to provide documentation of this resource. There are many different writing styles and ways that this can be accomplished. How you do this will depend on whether you are using the Modern Language Association or American Psychological Association style guide for citing resources. Check with your teacher, professor or editor to ensure you know which style you should be using.

Instructions

  1. MLA Citations

    • 1

      List the author or editor names of the Web piece if available. Follow that with the article name in quotation marks.

    • 2

      Cite the title of the website in italics. If there is a version or volume number of the publication list that next. Follow with the publishing information, including the name of the publisher and the date published.

    • 3

      Provide any page numbers if available. Follow this with the date you accessed the site and then the publication medium, in this case the Web. While MLA no longer requires the listing of the URL, some places and instructors may still do, so that would be listed last.

    APA Citations

    • 4

      List the author. For a Web page, this could be called the author, compiler or even the person the site is maintained by.

    • 5

      Include the date of publication. If there is no date available, you should use the notation n.d. (no date) in its place.

    • 6

      Cite the Web page title in italics. If a specific article on a Web page is being cited, cite the article title first and then the Web page title.

    • 7

      List the URL for the Web page.

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