In his essay about the atomic bombing of japan during world war ii, a student has used statistics he found in an article in the online archives of the irish times. the article is from may 5, 1997, and is called “cancer finding in hiroshima.” there is no author given.

Answer :  The student can cite this source using MLA citation format which is this - (“Cancer Finding in Hiroshima,” 1997).

Explanation : The MLA citation format usually involves the following below pieces of information,

where Author's Last name, First name comes the first if available.

“Title of Source.”

Title of Container,

other contributors,

version,

numbers,

publisher,

publication date,

location.

This format is used to cite any reference. Here, when the archives of Irish times were referred for the article of “Cancer Finding in Hiroshima" which was dated on May 5, 1997; will be as (“Cancer Finding in Hiroshima,” 1997)