Cite Ballads Using English Broadside Ballad Archive
Rationale
The
English Broadside Ballad Archive (
EBBA) is dedicated to providing access to and preserving 17th-century English broadside ballads.
EBBA is an open-access resource, meaning we can link directly to the ballads. You must credit
EBBA if you cite or mention ballads that are available on their cite.
Practice: How to Encode
Note that broadside ballads use the title element with an attribute of level and a value of m because they are standalone works.
If the broadside ballad you are referencing is from the
English Broadside Ballad Archive, you should credit them by doing the following:
- Wrap the title of the archive with an attribute of level and a value of m.
- Then wrap the title in a ref element with a target attribute that points to the URL.
Example
The ballad, A new Song, shewing the crueltie of Gernutus a Jew (London, 1620?) is available from the [English Broadside Ballad Archive](https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/20063/).