How to cite a government website mla in text

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Formatting

Note: For your Works Cited list, all citations should be double spaced and have a hanging indent.

A "hanging indent" means that each subsequent line after the first line of your citation should be indented by 0.5 inches.

Tips

Access Date

In the 9th edition of the MLA Manual, accessed dates are no longer used for most entries.  The exception is if you have a web source without a publication date or which has been altered or removed.  This date will be added to the end of the entry. E.g. Accessed 23 July 2022.

Dates

The format of dates is: Day Month (shortened) Year. E.g. 5 Sept. 2012.

Whether to give the year alone or include a month and day depends on your source: write the full date as you find it there.

If no date is listed, omit it unless you can find that information available in a reliable source.

Titles

Capitalize the first letter of every important word in the title. You do not need to capitalize words such as: in, of, or an.

If there is a colon (:) in the title, include what comes after the colon (also known as the subtitle).

Government Document From a Website

Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee. Title of Document: Subtitle if Given. Edition if given and is not first edition, Publication Date, URL. 

Works Cited List Example

 United States, Department of Education. Tips for Helping Students Recovering from Traumatic Events. Sept. 2005.  www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/recovering/part.html. 

In-Text Citation Example

 (Department, Agency, or Committee)

 Example: (United States, Dept. of Education)

 Note: You can use a shortened form of the Department, Agency, or Committee by listing the first word or words of the full name.

Government Document in Print

Name of National, State or Local Government, Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee. Title of Document: Subtitle if Given. Edition if given and is not first edition, Publication Date.

Works Cited List Example

 United States, Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship, and Immigration Services. Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants. Government Printing Office, 2007.

In-Text Citation Example

 (Department, Agency, or Committee page number)

 Example: (United States, Dept. of Homeland Security 4)

 Note: You can use a shortened form of the Department, Agency, or Committee by listing the first word or words of the full name.

Government Document From a Database

Name of National, State or Local Government, Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee. Title of Document: Subtitle if Given. Edition if given and is not first edition, Publication information, Publication Date. Database Name, URL. 

Works Cited List Example

 United States, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "CDC Awards $60 Million to Help States and Territories Battle Zika." CDC Press Release, 21 July 2016. SIRS Government Reporter, www.northeaststate.edu:3443:/login?url=sks.sirs.com/webapp/article?artno=0000384364&type=ART. 

In-Text Citation Example

 (Department, Agency, or Committee)

 Example: (United States, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control)

 Note: You can use a shortened form of the Department, Agency, or Committee by listing the first word or words of the full name.

Title of Document. Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee, Publication Date, URL. Date Accessed.

Agriculture in Harmony with Nature: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Sustainable Development Strategy 2001-2004. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2001, publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/A22-166-1-2001E.pdf. Accessed 12 Dec. 2016.

In-Text

(Agriculture in Harmony18)

"When a work's author and publisher are separate organizations, give both names, starting the entry with the one that is the author.  When an organization is both author and publisher, begin the entry with the work's title, skipping the author element, and list the organization only as publisher." (MLA Handbook, 8th ed, p. 104)

How do you in

According to the APA guidelines, one can simply add the URL of the website as an in-text citation, e.g.: The website USA gov (https://www.usa.gov/) claims to be an online guide to government information and services.

How do you in

Cite the government agency that issued it as author listing the name of the government followed by the name of the agency (you may abbreviate this if it is identifiable by context), followed by the title of the publication. Then list publication information as usual.

How do I cite a website MLA in

Revised on June 16, 2022. An MLA website citation includes the author's name, the title of the page (in quotation marks), the name of the website (in italics), the publication date, and the URL (without “https://”). If the author is unknown, start with the title of the page instead.

How do you in

Government document citations include:.
Author or authors. The Author may be a government or corporate entity..
Title of report. Provide the report number in brackets if given..
Publisher. Omit the publisher information if the author and the publisher are the same..
DOI or URL is hyperlinked..