How to Cite
Revolutionary War and Beyond

Visitors frequently ask how to cite information from the Revolutionary War and Beyond website for research papers or other purposes. The following guidelines will help you to cite your research in MLA format or APA format.

MLA Format

If you are required to report your research in MLA format, use the following format, which is gleaned from this description on the University of Hawaii's website - MLA Citation Examples:

"Title of Web Page." Revolutionary War and Beyond. Date of Publication. 
     Date of Access. URL.

For example, if you are using information from our George Washington Facts page for your research, the MLA citation would look like this:

"George Washington Facts." Revolutionary War and Beyond. Date of Publication (if given).
     Accessed 7/10/11. http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/george-washington-facts.html.

Note that many pages do not have the publication date on them. Publication dates were not originally posted and it was some time before we realized that many visitors to our site wanted this information for their research. Anything published after October, 2011 will have the publication date included, but anything published before that time will not. In this case, simply leave out the date of publication from your reference and use the date of access instead. If the publication date is given, then put the publication date and the date of access in the reference.

APA Format

If you are required to cite your research in APA format, use the following format, which is taken from the Long Island University website - APA Citation Style

Title of Article. Publication date (if given). Retrieved (date), from (Website name),
     website: URL.

So if you are going to cite information from our George Washington Facts page, your APA citation would look like this:

George Washington Facts. (n.d.) Retrieved 7/10/11, from Revolutionary War and Beyond, 
     website: http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/george-washington-facts.html.

If the article has a publication date, put the date after the title of the article followed by a period. If there is no date of publication listed, then put (n.d.) for "no date." Articles published before October 2011 on this website will not have publication dates listed. Articles after this date will.

If you are citing this website in any online source, please link back to the page you are citing out of courtesy to the editor of this site who did a lot of hard work... for you!

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