Here’s the quirky part. Sometimes, the title is a total mess. Like, "Welcome to Bob’s Page of Unclear Origins." That’s your starting point. Use it anyway.
You become a detective. You look at the URL, the date, the publisher. Everything except the author is fair game. It’s like building a puzzle with one piece missing. You just have to make the other pieces fit perfectly.
And what if the website is run by an organization? Good catch. If the organization is the author, you use that. But if the site is just a random page with no group tied to it, you’re back to the title trick.
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The Punctuation Party
MLA format loves a good comma. It’s obsessive about periods. For a website with no author, you need to memorize a tiny dance. It goes: Title. Website Name, Publication Date, URL.
No period after the URL. That’s the only time MLA gets lazy. It’s a little treat for you. A tiny victory in a world of rules.
If there’s no date? Write "n.d." That stands for "no date." It’s the citation version of shrugging. Very casual, very professional.
