Question

review the information for a website that a student intends to include on a works cited page.
web address: www.arborday2014.org
name of website: a day for trees
organization: u s. department of agriculture
author: not provided
date of publication: january 10, 2014
date accessed: april 18, 2014
using mla guidelines, what information should be listed first in the citation for this source?
the web address
the name of the website
the organization
a place holder

Explanation:

In MLA citation for a website with no author, the organization (or the entity responsible for the site) is used as the author - substitute and is listed first. Here, the organization is the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and since the author is not provided, the organization is the first - listed element in the citation. The web address is not listed first, the website name is not the first element in this case, and a placeholder is not used here as we have the organization.

Answer:

C. the organization