Cite With Style: Comparing the New URL Citation Methods!
February 18, 2010 | Alicia Ostarello
Get ready to research in MLA style!
If you’re a university student in the midst of composing a research paper, chances are you’re dabbling in a dollop of internet-based study to gather facts and support for your writing. Well, as luck would have it, the Modern Language Association (MLA – basically, the mysterious group of all things language rule-makers for the humanities) has decreed that it is no longer necessary to cite the URL of a website in your “Works Cited” page. Yahtzee, right?
MLA is the most common style of citation for collegiate papers. Of course, college students are always required to reference where they found information or ideas – it’s part of not plagiarizing. Previously, the MLA style insisted that web-based research include a URL linking to the site of data that you were using; now however, you only have to follow the MLA way of citing the information you found, rather than the URL itself.
In a complete about face, the American Psychological Association (APA – another big-wig group of fancy language rule-makers for the social sciences) continues to require that URLs be included in when using their citation regulations.
And as for the third most popular method of citation, the Chicago Manual of Style…Well, as long as you don’t leave your URLs hyperlinked in your bibliography, it appears that you’ll be quite alright in the eyes of your professors. Happy writing, and happy citing!
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