MLA citation question.

[djheater]

What do you do when you're citing a web page and no revision date is given? Do you leave it blank, enter a false date, enter the current date?

 

[Ika]

Leave it out.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Aflac
Leave it out.

Thanks!

 

[uberman]

I don't know what you mean by "leave it out." If you leave the information out, there is no need to reference it. If you use the information and do not provide a reference, that is plagiarism. That means trouble. I used to work in MLA. Then my work was done in APA. My libraries are in storage now and inaccessible. Due to the amount of fiction on the Internet is difficult to decide whether the information belongs in an academic paper. This was often a topic of discussion in my college years. Research from professional journals is preferable.



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[Kevin1211]

he means leave out the part where you put the revision date.. not the whole citation..lol

 

[sciencewhiz]

I was taught to use the date accessed when citing a webpage.

 

[ts3433]

MLA asks for both the revision and date of access, I think, but putting down just the date of access should be fine.

 

[hypn0tik]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
I was taught to use the date accessed when citing a webpage.

Me too.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: ts3433
MLA asks for both the revision and date of access, I think, but putting down just the date of access should be fine.

Correct. MLA asks for both, what i'm heareing is that if the last modified date is unknown, it is not entered. Sounds good.

Thanks all.