If you choose to use a URL, place it at the end of the citation, enclose it in angle brackets and end with a period. You may break a long URL into two lines, only after the double or single slashes. You will have to remove the hyperlink if your Word program tries to automatically format your URL as a hyperlink. Same Website/Same Source Issue If the root of the URL (www.easybib.com) does not change, it is one source. Regardless of how many forward or backslashes there are. Example: www.easybib.com/citations and www.easybib.com/parenthetical_citations are the same source. The exception to this rule is if the article has an author, then it must be attributed to the author, not the website. This should be treated like an anthology in a book. A website with no authors would be a book with one author. A website filled with articles from other authors, would be treated like an anthology. Additional Common Sources In addition to the sources shown below, the MLA Handbook covers television and radio broadcasts, sound recordings, performances, musical scores, visual art, maps, charts, comic strips, advertisements, lectures, speeches, manuscripts, letters, and e-mail messages. A digital file The following is an example of a citation for a file downloaded from the Web: American Council of Learned Societies. Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our Cultural Commonwealth. New York: ACLS, 2006. PDF file. Interviews Examples for interviews you conducted, either in person or on the Killian, Harry. Personal interview. 16 Nov. 2008. Simmons, Roger. Telephone interview. 15 Dec. 2007. Global Warming: The Problem with Growing Greenhouse Gas Emissions A Senior Paper Presented to the
If you choose to use a URL, place it at the end of the citation, enclose it in angle brackets and end with a period. You may break a long URL into two lines, only after the double or single slashes. You will have to remove the hyperlink if your Word program tries to automatically format your URL as a hyperlink. Same Website/Same Source Issue If the root of the URL (www.easybib.com) does not change, it is one source. Regardless of how many forward or backslashes there are. Example: www.easybib.com/citations and www.easybib.com/parenthetical_citations are the same source. The exception to this rule is if the article has an author, then it must be attributed to the author, not the website. This should be treated like an anthology in a book. A website with no authors would be a book with one author. A website filled with articles from other authors, would be treated like an anthology. Additional Common Sources In addition to the sources shown below, the MLA Handbook covers television and radio broadcasts, sound recordings, performances, musical scores, visual art, maps, charts, comic strips, advertisements, lectures, speeches, manuscripts, letters, and e-mail messages. A digital file The following is an example of a citation for a file downloaded from the Web: American Council of Learned Societies. Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our Cultural Commonwealth. New York: ACLS, 2006. PDF file. Interviews Examples for interviews you conducted, either in person or on the Killian, Harry. Personal interview. 16 Nov. 2008. Simmons, Roger. Telephone interview. 15 Dec. 2007. Global Warming: The Problem with Growing Greenhouse Gas Emissions A Senior Paper Presented to the
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