Library's White MLA Sheet (primarily for non-English coursework)
MLA Citation Style Guide - 7th Edition
PRINT SOURCES
BOOKS
Author’s name(s). Title of book: including subtitle (underlined or italicized).
Place: Publisher, Year. Medium of publication = Print.
ONE AUTHOR
English, Carol. The Cliffs Won’t Do: Read the Book.
Philadelphia: McGraw, 1997. Print.
TWO OR THREE AUTHORS (more than 3, use: 1st name, et. al.)
Drucker, Darla, and Amy Jones. How to Survive Your
Wedding. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Print.
CORPORATE AUTHOR
Wissahickon Home Economics Department. Cooking
With Spice. New York: Scribner’s, 1993. Print.
EDITOR
Valenza, Joyce, ed. Bagels and Books: An Anthology.
Brooklyn: Random, 1991. Print.
WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY (signed articles or
separate authors)
Smith, James. “The Physics of Sushi.” The Fabulous
Physics Paper. Ed. Samuel Klein. Rome: Cambridge
UP, 1954. 46-59. Print.
BASIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
SIGNED ARTICLE
Copaset, Sandra. “Zen and the Art of Wearing Blue
And Khaki.” Encyclopedia Americana. 1996 ed.
Print.
UNSIGNED ARTICLE
“Best Beards of All Time.” World Book Encyclopedia.
15th ed. 1993. Print.
SPECIALIZED ENCYCLOPEDIAS (single volume or multivolume)
SINGLE VOLUME: signed article
Williams, Tony. “God’s Little Acre (1933).”
Encyclopedia of Novels into Film. Eds. John C.
Tibbets and James M. Welsh. New York: Facts on
File, 1998. Print.
UNSIGNED MULTIVOLUME
“Idi Amin.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ed.
Paula K. Byers. 2nd ed. 21 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1998.
Print.
JOURNALS
Author’s name(s). “Title of article.” Journal title.
Volume no. (year of publication): pg. nos. Print.
ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL
Skater, Andrew. “Rollerblading on a Secondary Level.”
Secondary Education 54 (1990): 113-25. Print.
PERIODICALS (magazines)
ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE (weekly; biweekly)
Henry, Mary Ann. “Announcing Bus Changes with
Flair.” Time 4 July 1991: 71-76. Print.
ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE (monthly; bimonthly) PERIODICAL (give month(s) and year)
Ramsey, Pamela. “Where’s My Smiley Face?”
MacWorld Sept. 1997: 86-94. Print.
REPRINTS
ARTICLE REPRINTED IN ANOTHER SOURCE
Roberts, Sheila. “A Confined World: A Rereading of
Pauline Smith.” World Literature Written in
English 24 (1984): 232-38. Rpt. In TwentiethCentury Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard.
Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 399-402. Print.
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK – reprinted in another source
Morley, Patricia. Margaret Laurence. New York:
Twayne, 1981: 143-146. Rpt. in Contemporary
Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 62.
Detroit: Gale, 1991. 288-299. Print.
NEWSPAPERS
SIGNED ARTICLE
Goldberg, Grace. “The Inside Track: Alumni Life.”
Trojan Times 10 Oct. 1991: 17. Print.
UNSIGNED ARTICLE WITH NON-CONSECUTIVE PG. NOS.
“Striking a Pose with Sally Miles.” New York Times
15 Oct. 1997. sec. 1: 35+. Print.
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
ONLINE DATABASES (subscription)
First cite the original source information (from book or
periodical). Complete the citation by stating the title of
the database (italicized), the medium of publication
(Web), and the date of access. Add the URL at the end in
<angle brackets> only if your teacher requires it.
Student Resource Center
“Niccola Machiavelli.” DISCovering Authors.
Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource
Center – Gold. Web. 4 Aug. 2009.
Hall, Jeffrey C. “Mars.” Gale Encyclopedia of
Science. 4th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Student
Resource Center – Gold. Web. 30 July 2007.
Periodical: EBSCO and Proquest
Schaeffer, Charles, and Art Cosing. “This School Is
For The Birds!” Ranger Rick. Sept. 2001: 34.
MasterFile Premier. Ebsco. Web.
10 Sept. 2004.
Flora, Carlin. “Sugar on the Brain.” Psychology
Today. Nov./Dec. 2004: 22. Platinum Periodicals.
Proquest. Web. 9 Nov. 2008.
History Resource Center – US and World
French, Allen. “Bunker Hill, Battle of.” Dictionary of
American History. 3rd ed. 10 vols. New York:
Scribner’s, 2003. History Resource Center. Web.
9 Nov. 2008.
Literature Resource Center
Nagel, James. “Ernest Hemingway.” Dictionary of
Literary Biography, vol. 9: American Novelists,
1910-1945.Detroit: Gale, 1981: 100-120.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 6 Aug. 2009.
AP Image
Marsh, George E. “Dust Bowl Study.” National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
15 April 2004. AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive.
Web. 17 Nov. 2008.
INTERNET – Web Pages (free)
Cite the following, as available, in order:
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Name of author (reversed for alphabetizing).
Title of Work (underlined if independent, in “quotes” if part of a larger work).
Title of Overall Website (italicized, if distinct from title of the work).
Version or Edition used (exs. Rev. ed., 7th ed.).
Publisher or Sponsor of site (n.p. if none).
Date of Publication (n.d. if none)
Medium of Publication (Web)
Date of Access
URL if required by your teacher.
Green, Joshua. “The Rove Presidency.”
The Atlantic.com. Atlantic Monthly Group,
Sept. 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.
Lessig, Lawrence. “Free Debates: More Republicans
Call on RNC.” Lessig 2.0. N.p., 4 May 2007.
Web. 15 May 2008.
Scholarly Project
Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willet.
Indiana U. 24 April 2003. Web. 9 Jan. 2006.
Downey, Glen. “The Development of the Chess Motif
in Victorian Fiction”. Victorian Web. 21 March
2000. Web. 16 Feb. 2008.
Professional Site
Portuguese Language Page. U of Chicago P. N.d.
Web. 1 May 2008.
Personal Site
Lancashire, Ian. Home Page. N.p. 23 Jan. 2005.
Web. 5 Aug. 2009.
EXAMPLE WITH URL
Field, J. V. Johannes Kepler. April 1999. School of
Mathematics and Statistics. University of St.
Andrews, Scotland. Web. 11 Nov. 2004.
<http:www.history.msc.standrews.ocuk/biographies/
Kepler.html>.