Government publication (online)

Works cited entry

United States. Dept. of the Interior. Office of Inspector General. “Excessive Indulgences: Personal Use of the Internet at the Department of the Interior.” Office of Inspector General. Dept. of the Interior, Sept. 1999. Web. 20 May 2009.

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Treat the entry as a Web site or a short work from a Web site, giving as author the name of the government followed by the name of the agency.

Note on using a URL in a works cited entry

If your instructor requires a URL for Web sources, include the URL, enclosed in angle brackets, at the end of the entry.

Shiva, Vandana. “Bioethics: A Third World Issue.” NativeWeb. NativeWeb, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2006. <http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html>.

When a URL in a works cited entry must be divided at the end of a line, break it after a slash. Do not insert a hyphen.

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