Structure to follow to cite a Wikipedia article in MLA style: “Article Title.”
Website Title, Publisher (if different from website title)
, Day Month Year published or updated, URL. Reference example: “Special Relativity.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 July 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity.
Do you have to cite Wikipedia?
These will be the sources you cite in your paper.
There is no need to cite Wikipedia in this case
. … In any case, you should not cite Wikipedia itself, but the source provided; you should certainly look up the source yourself before citing it.
Can you cite Wikipedia in APA?
When citing Wikipedia in-text, all you need is
the article title
. This is because Wikipedia is a collaborative website and there is no author or published date. … To put an in-text citation for Wikipedia in APA, you would use the following format: (“Title of article,” n.d.)
How do you cite Wikipedia in APA 7 in-text?
- In-text citation: (“Wikipedia entry title”, year, para. X)
- “Access the archived version on Wikipedia by selecting “View history” and then the time and date of the version you used.
How do you cite Wikipedia in MLA?
Structure to follow to cite a Wikipedia article in MLA style: “Article Title.”
Website Title, Publisher (if different from website title), Day Month Year published or updated, URL.
Reference example: “Special Relativity.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 July 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity.
Why can't we cite Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations
elsewhere on Wikipedia. Because it can be edited by anyone at any time, any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism, a work in progress, or just plain wrong. … Therefore, Wikipedia should not be considered a definitive source in and of itself.
Can I use information from Wikipedia on my website?
If you want to use Wikipedia's text materials in your own books/articles/web sites or other publications, you can generally do so, but you
must comply with one of the licenses that Wikipedia's text is licensed under
. Many of the media files on Wikipedia are also reusable.
How accurate is Wikipedia?
But the vast majority of Wikipedia is filled with valuable and accurate information.” … The paper found that Wikipedia's entries had an
overall accuracy rate of 80 percent
, whereas the other encyclopedias had an accuracy rate of 95 to 96 percent.
What citation style does Wikipedia use?
It corresponds to
the APA citation style
, with additional quotation marks around the paper title (which are not present in the standard APA style). Also, the references are styled as footnotes rather than “(author year)”.
How can you tell when a Wikipedia page was published?
A page history is sometimes called revision history or edit history. You can view a page's history
by clicking the “View history” tab at the top of the associated page
(pictured right).
How do you reference an article from a website?
- author (the person or organisation responsible for the site)
- year (date created or last updated)
- page title (in italics)
- name of sponsor of site (if available)
- accessed day month year (the day you viewed the site)
- URL or Internet address (pointed brackets).
