This page is about citing and understanding web sources that are archived in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which is specifically dedicated to archiving web pages that no longer exist or are frequently updated.
Video: Internet Archive Wayback Machine Introduction and Citation Guidance (7 mins)
While citing material from other archives can be challenging, the Internet Archive and Wayback machine is typically a little less complicated.
We can use the MLA template for creating citations to help us out.
Visit the link below to see the example archived material, and then instructions for how to parse the material to make a citation for it.
The MLA (Modern Language Association) has provided us with a useful template to help us build citations on our own. It's important to be able to do this so that we can quickly make our own citations where no citation generator is available, and to recognize mistakes that citations generators make so that we can fix them before turning our work in.
Please find the MLA citation template linked under the Resources box.
AHA Institute for Diversity and Health Equity. "The Health Equity Roadmap." Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, 21 Jan. 2025, Internet Archive Wayback Machine, web.archive.org/web/20250121190849/https://equity.aha.org/. Accessed 28 May 2025.
We can use what we know about APA, to apply to our use of the MLA format:
AHA Institute for Diversity and Health Equity. (2025 January 21). The health equity roadmap. Institute for Diversity and Health Equity. Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Retrieved May 28, 2025 from web.archive.org/web/20250121190849/https://equity.aha.org/
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