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  1. What to note from a web page
  2. One web page in every style
  3. Pages with no author or no date
  4. Step-by-step website guides
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  6. Questions

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What to note from a web page

A link fills in most of this, but pages label themselves unevenly, so check each detail on the page itself:

Author
A person’s byline, usually under the headline or at the end. Many pages have none; then the organization behind the page may stand in, or the title goes first.
Title of the page
The headline of the page you used, not the name of the whole site.
Website name
The site the page belongs to, such as A List Apart or the CDC.
Date
The date the page was published or last updated, near the headline or the foot of the article. The copyright year in the site footer is not a publication date.
URL
The full link to the page you used, copied from the address bar.
Date you visited
MLA wants it only when the page shows no date; Harvard and IEEE want it always. The generator adds today’s date where the style asks, so change it if you read the page earlier.

One web page in every style

Mark Bernstein’s article on A List Apart, from its link, as the generator writes it:

MLA 9: Works Cited entry

Bernstein, Mark. “10 Tips on Writing the Living Web.” A List Apart, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving/.

MLA 9: in-text

(Bernstein)

APA 7: reference

Bernstein, M. (2002, August 16). 10 tips on writing the living web. A List Apart. https://alistapart.com/article/writeliving/

APA 7: in-text

(Bernstein, 2002)

Chicago 18: bibliography entry

Bernstein, Mark. “10 Tips on Writing the Living Web.” A List Apart, August 16, 2002. https://alistapart.com/article/writeliving/.

Chicago 18: first footnote

Mark Bernstein, “10 Tips on Writing the Living Web,” A List Apart, August 16, 2002, https://alistapart.com/article/writeliving/.

Harvard: reference list entry

Bernstein, M. (2002) 10 tips on writing the living web. Available at: https://alistapart.com/article/writeliving/ (Accessed: 3 November 2026).

Harvard: in-text

(Bernstein, 2002)

IEEE: reference

[1] M. Bernstein. “10 Tips on Writing the Living Web.” A List Apart. Accessed: Nov. 3, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://alistapart.com/article/writeliving/

IEEE: in-text

[1]

Pages with no author or no date

Government, company and charity pages often name no person. Type the organization in Authors, and the generator follows each style’s rule. The CDC’s About Sleep page, with no named author:

MLA 9: the organization runs the site, so the title goes first

“About Sleep.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15 May 2024, www.cdc.gov/sleep/about/index.html.

APA 7: the organization is the author

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2024, May 15). About sleep. https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about/index.html

  • No date: APA writes (n.d.), Harvard (no date), and MLA adds the date you visited.
  • A blog post, an online newspaper article or a YouTube video has its own kind, with fields of its own. Choose it under Fill in the form instead, or use the YouTube citation generator.
  • A whole website rather than one page is rarely cited; when it is, choose Whole website in the form.

Step-by-step website guides

Each guide gives the pattern, a full example, what to do when details are missing, and the mistakes that cost points.

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Questions

How do I cite a website with no author?

Use the organization behind the page as the author in APA, Chicago and Harvard. MLA starts with the title instead when that organization also runs the website, so the name is not given twice. With no organization either, every style starts with the title.

Which date do I use if the page shows two?

Use the most recent: a page that says Updated May 15, 2024 is cited with that date, because that is the version you read.

Why did the generator not find the author?

It reads the author from the tags the page publishes for search engines and citation tools. Many sites leave them out even when a byline is visible, so type the name in from the page.

Is the citation generator free?

Yes, every style, with no account and no limit on citations you type in. Looking up a link, DOI or ISBN is free too; a network that looks up a lot in a short time is asked for a quick human check.

Where are my citations kept?

In this browser only, in as many named lists as you like, until you clear or delete them. What you search for or look up goes to Format’s server, which asks Crossref, Open Library or the page itself. Nothing about you goes with it.

Are there ads?

No. The generator shows no ads and needs no sign-up. Your lists are kept in this browser, not on our server, and what you look up is used only to find the source.