McMorrow : Infectious Diseases Research: Historically Significant Epidemics: Citing Your Sources

• A citation is a way of giving credit to the source you used for an assignment. 
• Citations allow the teacher to locate the sources you used for your research.
• There are specific ways to cite the sources we use, depending on the subject you're researching or the requirements of the teacher. For the majority of your middle and high school career you will you MLA format, which stands for Modern Language Association.

In MLA 8, the source type does not change the formatting of the citation. When citing a website look for the following information and assemble it in this order:

1. Author's name 
   • Place author's name in reverse order with a comma between the last name and the first name; end with a period
   • example: Barnes, George.
2. Title of the article or page
   • The title of the article is put in quotations. Place a period before the end of the quotation.
   • example: "The Roads Outside are Frightful."
3. Title of the website
   • The title of the website should be italicized with a comma at the end of the title
   • example: Telegram.com,
4. Name of the publisher
   • After the comma, write the name of the website's publisher; end in a comma.
   • If the name of the website is the same as the publisher omit it
   • ex. GateHouse Media, LLC.,
5. Date that article, webpage, etc. was posted
   • Day of the month, abbreviated month, followed by year; end in a comma
   • ex. 16 Dec. 2016,
6. URL
   • Paste url, not including http://
   • end the url in a period
   • make the link clickable if it is a web source
   • ex. http://www.telegram.com/news/20161216/roads-outside-are-frightful

The elements together would look like this:

Combining the example elements, the citation would look like this:

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