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Citing Websites: What To Look For

• "Article/Page Title" is probably the next biggest font on the page after the website name. Do not repeat the article title as the website name.
• Website Name should be based on what's on the web page itself (usually in the upper-left corner).
• Publisher can often be found in the copyright information at the very bottom of a web page, or look for a link to an "About" page.
  • If the publisher is the same as the site name, you can skip naming it again as the publisher.
• Date should not use the copyright date for the whole website at the bottom of the page with the publisher. This isn't necessarily accurate for the individual article you're looking at, since it's part of the site template.
  • No date? Add the day you accessed the page to the end of your citation instead.

Parenthetical Citations

In-text parenthetical citations always always always reflect the very first thing given in the full citation, which is usually an author's name! If a source has no author, you'll use part of the article title instead.

Look-Alike Sources

When you have multiple sources whose in-text citations all look the same, you have to add extra info to distinguish them from each other.

The exact approach depends on what information you have or don't have.

Though written essays are kind of the default format -- or at least, incredibly common -- you do still need to worry about citations when creating presentations, movies, infographics, or other types of works! The only thing that doesn't apply is all the 'Times New Roman size 12 double-space' formatting rules.

You do also have more flexibility in how and where you include citations, too!

Presentations

You can use traditional parenthetical citations, especially if you've used multiple sources on one slide.

You can also go less formal [unless your professor has said otherwise!] by tucking the citation into the corner of the slide (Greene). You even have the flexibility to include extra info that MLA wouldn't normally allow but can help contextualize the source (Green, NPR Morning Edition).

You must also include a Works Cited slide! We could create hanging indents, but it's not strictly necessary. A bulleted list might also work in this situation.

Movies

You can add a formal parenthetical citation at the appropriate times in your video in some corner of the video.

Recommendation: wherever you place it, keep it consistent! E.g. if the first one is the bottom-left corner, make all the citations in the bottom-left corner. This helps your reader know where to look as well as to know what that pop-up means each time it appears.

There's no rules about size/font/format! Just pay attention to how it contrasts to your video's background.