How Do You Handle Long Urls In An MLA Citation?
When you are citing electronic sources in a research or term paper, you need to include the URL of the website that you used. However, some URLs are extremely long and cannot be retyped or pasted into your works cited page without serious difficulty. In the case of extremely long URLs, you have several options of how to deal with them when you use MLA style. You can choose how to handle them based first on the preference of your teacher or instructor and second on how you prefer to list them in your bibliography. Break the URL for a line break at slash marks whenever possible. For example, a URL that contains several lines of text should be broken up in this manner: http://images.google.com/imgresimgurl=http://awesomegems.com/gems/gs3639anim.gif&imgrefurl=http://awesomegems.com/gems/index.html&h=/images%3Fq%3Dsapphire%2Bcolors%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den. As you can see, the slashes are at the end of each line. Refer to a site’s search URL. This is the URL of the main page of the site. For exa
