How do you cite the gettysburg address

The Gettysburg address. Ballard Ed. Year page published. Title of the article or individual page [Format]. Retrieved from URL. Lincoln, A. The Gettysburg address [Transcript]. Retrieved from www. Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Roy P. Abraham Lincoln Online. Note that for all MLA-style bibliographical citation, all lines of the citation after the first are always indented three to five spaces.

Include the year of publication in parentheses following the author's last name instead of a page or line number. For example: Lincoln began his speech with "Four score and seven years ago. Write the author's last name and first initial followed by the year in parentheses: Lincoln, A. Insert where you found the address. Citations for a book are as follows: Editor or editors' names Ed. Title of the book in sentence case and italicized page numbers used.

City of publication: Publisher. Phone: Fax: For reference questions, please complete our reference form. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.