The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is an American federal government agency that addresses health issues in the United States. The CDC publishes a variety of health-related information on its website (cdc.gov). You may find that you need to cite information from the CDC website from time to time when writing college term papers. The exact form that your citation should take will depend on whether you are adhering to American Psychological Association (APA) or Modern Language Association (MLA) citation guidelines.
Instructions
APA Format
1. List the author of the page you are citing. In this case, that information would appear as follows:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2. List the date of publication in parentheses, followed by a period. For example:
(1999).
3. List the title of the page or article, followed by a period. Only the first letter of the title should be capitalized, as well as any proper nouns. For example:
Smoking and tobacco use in America.
4. List the URL in the following format:
Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
5. Ensure that the finished citation appears in the following format:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1999). Smoking and tobacco use in America. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
MLA Format
6. List the title of the article or webpage in quotation marks and followed by a period. For example:
"Smoking and Tobacco Use in America."
7. List the name of the website in italics. For example:
cdc.gov.
8. List the name of the publisher, followed by a comma. For example:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
9. List the year of publication, followed by a period. For example:
1999.
If no date is given, list:
n.d.
10. List the medium of publication, followed by a period. This should appear as follows:
Web.
11. List the date on which you accessed the webpage, followed by a period. The names of months should be abbreviated down to three letters in MLA style. For example:
23 Jan. 2010.
12. Ensure that the finished citation appears in the following format:
"Smoking and Tobacco Use in America." cdc.gov. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999. Web. 23 Jan. 2010.
MLA style no longer requires the use of URLs when citing electronic sources. However, if you wish to include the URL, you may do so by enclosing it in brackets underneath your citation. For example:
"Smoking and Tobacco Use in America." cdc.gov. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999. Web. 23 Jan. 2010.
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