Sample MLA format of how your paper should
look:
Name, Instructor’s
Name, Goal #, and
Date
Your last name and
page number
Include
Title
The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. September 21, 2010.
Citing Non-Print or Sources from the
Internet
IF YOU CANNOT FIND SOME OF THIS INFORMATION, CITE WHAT IS
AVAILABLE!!! Use, in this order, as many of the below items as are
relevant and useful for clearly identifying the source document.
What to include in your Works Cited List for an internet
website:
1. Author or editor's last name, then first name.
2. Title of the article in quotation marks.
3. Web site name, italicized.
4. Web site owner or sponsor if available.
5. Date of publication (DD MM YYYY as in 15 June 2009). If a
publication date is not available, use n.d. for "no date."
6. The word Web and a period to indicate the publication source.
7. The date you accessed the site followed by a period.
8. [If required by your instructor or if it's necessary to find the article,
include the URL (uniform resource locator--that is, Web address) of
the document <in angle brackets> followed by a period.]
Example of Typical Web Site Works Cited Format:
General:
Last name, First name. "Article Title." Website Name. Organization
Name. Article date. Web. Date of access.
Citation Format for Print Sources with
Known Author
How to format Print Sources like BOOKS, MAGAZINES,
SCHOLARLY JOURNALS, and NEWSPAPERS in your Works Cited
List.
FORMAT:
Author’s last name, first name. Title of the book. City of
publication: Publisher’s name, year of publication.
EXAMPLE:
Smith, Jan. The Life of Fire. New York: Pantheon, 1998.
Citing references in your paper using
MLA style
MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means
that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation
or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference
should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name may appear either
in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase,
but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the
text of your sentence.
Examples of how to use citations in your paper:
1)Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a
"spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).
This is the just the
page number!
2) Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
This is the author’s last
name and page number!
3) Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative
process (263).
Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers
that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an
author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source,
they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth,
they would find the following information:
Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print.