MLA

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 CONTENT
MLA Citations and Works Cited Page
In-Text Citations: The Basics
Works Cited Page: Basic Format
Works Cited Page: Books
Works Cited Page: Other Common
Sources
Works Cited Page: Periodicals
Works Cited Page: Electronic Sources
Works Cited Page: Other Non-Print
Sources
 An in-text reference comprises author surname/s,
an the publication date of the source (in parenthesis),
within the body of the essay or report. It is inserted
directly after the information being sourced from the
scientific literature

A works cited page is a list of works that you

referenced in the body of your paper, whereas a
bibliography is a list of all sources you used in your
research.

MLA Citations AND

Works Cited Page.
 1. The source
information required
in a parenthetical
citation depends
upon the source
The use of medium.
parenthetical
2. Any source
citation is the information that you
placement of provide in-text must
relevant source correspond to the
information in source information on
parentheses after the Works Cited Page.
a quote or
paraphrase
 IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE
Author's last name and the page number(s)

In-text citations
Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked
by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
(263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the

"spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
(Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of

emotion in the creative process (263).

Works Cited

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford

WITH KNOWN AUTHOR
IN-TEXT CITATIONS

Print sources If the signal Words in the

usually provide word/phrase is in citation must
a signal word or the sentence, correspond to the
phrase ( usually don’t include the entry that appears
the author’s last parenthetical in on the left-hand
name citation margin of the
Works Cited
WITH KNOWN AUTHOR
IN-TEXT CITATIONS
In-text citations

Humans beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as

“symbol-using animals” (3)

Human beings have been described as “symbol using

animals” (Burke 3)

Works Cited

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays

on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U
of California P, 1966. Print.
 NO KNOWN AUTHOR
IN-TEXT CITATIONS

use a shortened
title of the work use quotation
instead of an marks if it's a italicize it if it's a
author name short work longer work

T “” I
 NO KNOWN AUTHOR
IN-TEXT CITATIONS

In-text citations

We see so many global warming hotspots in North

America likely because this region has "more readily
accessible climatic data and more comprehensive
programs to monitor and study environmental change . .
." ("Impact of Global Warming" 6).

Works Cited

"The Impact of Global Warming in North

America." Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23
Mar. 2009.
CLASSIC & LITERARY WORKS
WITH MULTIPLE EDITIONS
IN-TEXT CITATIONS
then the appropriate
give the page abbreviations for
number of volume (vol.), book
your edition (bk.), part (pt.),
followed by chapter (ch.),
a semicolon section (sec.), or
paragraph (par.).

; ch.
 CLASSIC & LITERARY WORKS
WITH MULTIPLE EDITIONS

IN-TEXT CITATIONS

In-text citations

Marx and Engels described human history as

marked by class struggles (79; ch. 1).
AUTHORS WITH
SAME NAMES
IN-TEXT CITATIONS

or even the
Provide both authors’ full
authors’ first names if they
initials share initials
 AUTHORS WITH
SAME NAMES
IN-TEXT CITATIONS

In-text citations

Malthough some medical ethicists claim that

cloning will lead to designer cildren (R.
Willer 12), others note that the advantages for
medical research outweigh this consideration
(A. Willer 46).
 MULTIPLE AUTHORS
IN-TEXT CITATIONS
Source with 3 or
fewer authors, list Source with more
last names in text than 3 authors, Provide the first
/ parenthetical use bibliographic author’s name
citation information as a then by “et al” or
guide list all names

() et al
 MULTIPLE AUTHORS
IN-TEXT CITATIONS

In-text citations

The authors state “Tighter gun control in the

United States erodes Second Amendment rights”
(Smith, Yang, and Moore 76).

Legal experts counter Smith, Yang, and Moore’s

argument by noting the current spike in gun
violence in America compels law makers to
adjust gun laws (Jones et al. 4)
WORKS BY SAME AUTHOR
IN-TEXT CITATIONS

Include a
shortened title
for the Put short in
particular work italics or
you’re quoting quotation marks
from

T “”
WORKS BY SAME AUTHOR
IN-TEXT CITATIONS

In-text citations

Murray states that writing is “a process” that

“varies with our thinking style” (Write to Learn
6). Additionally, Murray argues that the purpose of
writing is to “carry ideas and information from the
mind of one person into the mind of another” (A
Writer Teaches Writing 3)
 1. Begin your Works Cited
page on a separate page at
the end of your research
paper.
2. Label the page Works and
center the words Works Cited
at the top of the page.
Have a Work Cited 3. Double space all citations,
Page at the end but do not skip spaces
between entries.
of your research 4.Indent the second and
paper. It must subsequent lines of citations
correspond to by 0.5 inches to create a
hanging indent.
the works cited 5. List page numbers of
on the main sources efficiently, when
needed.
text.
 BOOKS

NOTE THE FF: BASIC FORMAT:

Author name(s)
Last name, First name.
Book title Title of Book. City
Publication date of Publication:
Publisher, Year of
Publisher Publication. Medium
Place of of Publication.
publication.
 BOOKS
ONE AUTHOR:
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a
New Science. New York:
Penguin, 1987. Print.
MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR:
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner.
The Allyn and Bacon
Guise to Peer Tutoring.
Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print
2 OR MORE BOOKS OF SAME AUTHOR:
Palmer, William J. Dickens and New
Historicism. New York: St.
Martin’s, 1997. Print.
---. The Films of the
Eighties: A Social History.
Carbondale: Southern I
Illinois UP, 1993. Print.
Book with No Author
Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York:
Somerset, 1993. Print.
 BOOKS

ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE
(Encyclopedia, dictionary, etc.):

“Ideology.” The American Heritage

Dictionary. 3rd ed.1997.
Print.

MULTIVOLUME WORK

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria.

Trans. H. E. Butler. Vol. 2.
Cambridge: Loeb-Harvard
UP, 1980. Print.
BOOKS
 BASIC STYLE FOR CITATION
Author and/or editor names
Article name in quotation marks
Title of the Website, project, or book in
italics.
` Publisher information
Medium of publication.
Date you accessed the material.
URL
 CITING AN ENTIRE WEB SITE

Editor, author, or compiler name (if

available). Name of Site. Version
number. Name of
institution/organization affiliated
with the site (sponsor or
publisher), date of resource
creation (if available). Medium of
publication. Date of access.
 A PAGE ON A WEB SITE

"How to Make Vegetarian

Chili." eHow. Demand
Media, n.d. Web. 24
Feb.2009.
 AN IMAGE

Artist’s Name
Title of the artwork (Italics)
Date ( If there is none, place
“n.d.”)
Name the medium
Name of institution that houses
the artwork followed by the
location
 AN IMAGE

Goya, Francisco. The

Family of Charles
IV. 1800. Museo del
Prado,Madrid. Museo
National del Prado.
Web. 22 May 2006
 WORKS CITED
PAGE:
PERIODICALS

Periodicals (e.g.
magazines,
newspapers, and
scholarly
journals)
 Poniewozik, James. "TV
Format: Makes a Too-Close
Call." Time 20 Nov.
Author(s). "Title of 2000: 70-71. Print.
Article." Title of
Buchman, Dana. "A
Periodical Day
Special
Month Year: pages. Education." Good
Medium of Housekeeping Ma
publication. r. 2006: 143- 48.
Print.
EXTRA
blac
 ARTICLE IN A NEWSPAPER

Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center

Targets County's Uninsured
Patients." Washington Post 24 May
2007: LZ01. Print.

EXTRAKrugman, Andrew. "Fear of Eating." New

York Times 21 May 2007 late ed.:
blac
A1. Print.
OTHER COMMON SOURCES
OTHER COMMON SOURCES
OTHER COMMON SOURCES
OTHER COMMON SOURCES
OTHER COMMON SOURCES
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