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Kilmonis - Current Events: Citing Web Sources

This guide will help you locate and cite news articles for your Current Events project.

About Citing Web Sources

For this project, you will be creating your citations in MLA format. MLA stands for Modern Language Association. Use this page to learn how to properly give credit to the sources you reference in your work.

Citation Elements

 An MLA citation is made up of these elements:

1. Author.
2. Title of source.
3. Title of container,
4. Other Contributors,
5. Version,
6. Number,
7. Publisher,
8. Publication date,
9. Location.
  • If you can't find an element, or if the element isn't applicable to the nature of the source, than you omit it (leave it out). The elements that are crossed in this chart aren't applicable to citing your web-based news article.
  • If the website title and the publisher are the same, you can omit the publisher from the citation.

Template

Still need some assistance building an MLA citation? Make a copy of this template to assist you with the process.

Citation Layout

Your citation should follow the proper MLA guidelines:

  • Times New Roman, size 12 font
  • double spaced
  • include a hanging indent (5 space indent on every line of the citation after the first)

It should be compiled in this order, following the proper stylization:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Website,

Publication Date, Publisher's Name, URL.

Citation Example

This example citation was made using the web article below. Scroll to see where each element was identified on the web page and how it's properly formatted in an MLA citation:

Rannard, Georgina. "Past Seven Years Hottest on Record - EU Satellite Data." BBC, 10 Jan

2022, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59915690.