Lecture or public address (MLA)
Works cited entries
MLA-200
Live address
Smith, Anna Deavere. “On the Road: A Search for American Character.” National Endowment for the Humanities, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, 6 Apr. 2015. Address.
Address on the Web
Khosla, Raj. “Precision Agriculture and Global Food Security.” US Department of State: Diplomacy in Action, 26 Mar. 2013, www.state.gov/
Explain
- Begin with the speaker’s name and the title of the lecture (if any), in quotation marks.
- If you attended the lecture live (as in the first example), add the sponsor and the theater or other venue where the lecture took place, the city, and the date.
- Add the label “Lecture” or “Address” at the end if it is not clear from the title.
- If you found the lecture on the Web (as in the second example), cite it as you would a short work from a Web site, giving the Web site title, the sponsor, the date of posting or of the lecture (whichever is available), and your date of access.
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.