Article in a newspaper (on the Web) (MLA)

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Crowell, Maddy. “How Computers Are Getting Better at Detecting Liars.” The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2015, www.csmonitor.com/Science/Science-Notebook/2015/1212/How-computers-are-getting-better-at-detecting-liars.

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Give as much of the following as is available:

  • the author
  • the title of the article, in quotation marks
  • the name of the newspaper's Web site, italicized
  • date of publication (day, month, year, abbreviating the names of the months except May, June, and July)
  • URL for the article

NOTE: When a URL must be divided at the end of a line, break it only after a slash or a double slash or before any other mark of punctuation. Do not insert a hyphen at the end of the line.

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