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Review the information for a website that a student intends to include on a works cited page.

Web Address: www.arborday2014.org
Name of Website: A Day for Trees
Organization: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Author: not provided
Date of Publication: January 10, 2014
Date Accessed: April 18, 2014

Using MLA guidelines, what information should be listed first in the citation for this source?

the web address
the name of the website
the organization
a place holder

1 answer

In MLA format, when citing a website, you typically start with the name of the website. Therefore, the correct information to list first for this source is the name of the website: A Day for Trees.

Here is how the citation would begin:

A Day for Trees. U.S. Department of Agriculture, 10 Jan. 2014. Accessed 18 Apr. 2014. www.arborday2014.org.

Make sure to format it correctly according to MLA guidelines with appropriate punctuation and italics as needed.