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How to Cite a Website (MLA 9, APA 7, Harvard)

To cite a website in MLA 9, write: Author. “Title of Page.” Website Name, Day Month Year, URL. In APA 7, write: Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of page. Site Name. URL. If there’s no author, start with the page title. If there’s no date, use “n.d.” in APA, or add an access date in MLA.

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Type Last, First. Separate authors with a semicolon ( ; ). For a group author, type the name as is.
Last, First; separate editors with a semicolon.
Paste the DOI or the https://doi.org/ link. It is used instead of the URL.
MLA uses it only when there is no publication date.

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MLA website citation

Author. “Title of Page.” Name of Website, Publisher (if different), Day Month Year, URL.

Smith, Jane. “How Bees See Color.” BeeWatch, 3 Mar. 2024, beewatch.org/bees-color. (illustrative)

In-text: (Smith). Websites usually have no page numbers, so give the author only.

APA website citation

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of page. Site Name. URL

Smith, J. (2024, March 3). How bees see color. BeeWatch. https://beewatch.org/bees-color (illustrative)

In-text: (Smith, 2024). Leave the site name out when it is the same as the author (for example, a page by the World Health Organization on its own site).

Harvard website reference

Author, A. (Year) Title of page. Available at: URL (Accessed: Day Month Year).

Smith, J. (2024) How Bees See Color. Available at: https://beewatch.org/bees-color (Accessed: 20 October 2026). (illustrative)

No author, no date or an organization as author

  • No author: start with the page title. MLA: “How Bees See Color.” BeeWatch, … APA: How bees see color. (2024, March 3). BeeWatch. URL
  • No date: APA writes (n.d.) and, for pages that change, adds “Retrieved Month Day, Year, from URL”. MLA leaves the date out and ends with “Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.” Harvard writes (n.d.) or (no date), depending on your university.
  • Organization as author: use the organization’s full name as the author, such as Office for National Statistics.

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The generator above is set to Webpage. Type the details and press MLA 9, APA 7 or Harvard to compare the three versions. In MLA, it removes https:// from the URL for you.

Patterns follow the MLA Handbook, 9th ed. (MLA Style Center) and the APA Publication Manual, 7th ed. (APA Style). The BeeWatch page is made up to show the pattern.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an access date in MLA?

Only if the page has no publication date, or it is likely to change or disappear. Then end the entry with “Accessed” and the date, such as Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

How do I cite a website with no author in APA?

Move the page title to the author position, then the date: How bees see color. (2024, March 3). BeeWatch. URL. In the text, use the title in italics: (How Bees See Color, 2024).

Should I include https:// in MLA?

Usually no. MLA 9 recommends dropping http:// or https:// from URLs, but DOIs keep the https://doi.org/ form. Your instructor may ask for full URLs.

How do I cite a specific page vs a whole site?

Cite the specific page whenever you use content from it: the page title goes in quotation marks (MLA) and the website name in italics. Cite a whole website only when you refer to the site in general, with its name in italics as the title.

Is Wikipedia OK to cite?

Ask your instructor; many courses don’t accept it. If you do cite it, cite the specific article and include the date of the version you read (shown in the page history).