Paper or presentation at a conference (MLA)

Works cited entry

Zuckerman, Ethan, et al. “Big Data, Big Challenges, and Big Opportunities.” Presentation at Wired for Change: The Power and the Pitfalls of Big Data, Ford Foundation, New York, 15 Oct. 2012, www.fordfoundation.org/library/multimedia/wired-for-change-big-data-big-challenges-and-big-opportunities/.

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MLA-124

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  • If the presentation is available online, cite it as a short work from a website, beginning with the presenter(s) and the title of the presentation in quotation marks.
  • After the title, use the label “Presentation on” and the name of the conference, the location, and the date.
  • If the paper or presentation is included in the proceedings of a conference, cite it as a selection in an anthology or a collection. See also proceedings of a conference.
  • If you viewed the presentation live, cite it as a lecture or public address.

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

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Proceedings of a conference

MLA-125

Lecture or public address