MLA STYLE
“WORKS CITED” ENTRIES
(the bibliography at the end of your paper)
PRINT JOURNAL ARTICLE, Halpern, D. Lynn, Randolph Blake, and James Hillenbrand.
“Psychoacoustics of a Chilling Sound.” Perception and
pagination by issue (each
Psychophysics, vol. 39, no. 2, 1986, pp. 77-80.
issue begins with page 1)
PRINT JOURNAL ARTICLE, Witcombe, Brian, and Dan Meyer. “Sword Swallowing and Its Side
Effects.” British Medical Journal, vol. 333, 2006, pp. 1258-7.
continuous pagination
Wyile, Herb. “As for Me and Me Arse: Strategic Regionalism and the
Home Place in Lynn Coady’s Strange Heaven.” Canadian Literature,
ONLINE JOURNAL
vol. 189, 2006, pp. 85-101,
ARTICLE with print
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzhAN
equivalent
=2006297782&site=ehost-live&scope=site. Accessed 12 Sept.
2016.
ONLINE JOURNAL
ARTICLE, no print
equivalent
Rodriguez, Marko A., Vandas Gintautas, and Alberto Pepe. “A Grateful
Dead Analysis: The Relationship Between Concert and Listening
Behavior Analysis.” First Monday, vol. 14, no. 1, 2009,
http://firstmonday.org/article/view/2273/2064. Accessed 12 Sept.
2016.
ONLINE JOURNAL
ARTICLE from a database
Mandik, Pete. “Shit Happens.” Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology,
vol. 4, no. 2, 2007, pp. 205-218. Project MUSE,
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/228149. Accessed 12 Sept. 2016.
BOOK
Bradbury, Malcolm. Eating People Is Wrong. Penguin, 1962.
EDITED BOOK
Leonard, Elisabeth Anne, ed. Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the
Fantastic. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997.
BOOK CHAPTER (or a
work in an anthology)
Benford, Gregory. “Effing the Ineffable.” Aliens: The Anthropology of
Science Fiction, edited by George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin,
Southern Illinois University Press, 1987, pp. 13-25.
E-BOOK
Ruben, Adam. Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad
School. Three Rivers Press, 2010.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE, print
Wilson, Melissa. “Pelted with Abuse.” This Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 2008,
pp. 8.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE,
online
Hofve, Jean. “Four Top Nutrients Every Animal Needs.” Animal Wellness.
Oct.-Nov. 2015, http://animalwellnessmagazine.com/four-topnutrients-dog-cat/. Accessed 12 Sept. 2016.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE,
print
Weeks, Carly. “The Dark Side of ‘Free-Range’ Chickens.” Globe and
Mail, 15 Jan. 2009, Atlantic edition, p. L1+.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE,
online
DeMont, John. “The Statistics Prove It: We’re Getting Stoopider.”
Localxpress.ca, Aug. 18, 2016,
https://www.localxpress.ca/columns/john-demont/john-demont-
the-statistics-prove-it-were-getting-stoopider-358897. Accessed 16
Sept. 2016.
MacKay, Garth Melvin. “‘Entire Instantaneous Sanctification’ and New
Brunswick Free Christian Baptists: 1832-1888.” MA thesis, Acadia
University, 2007.
MASTER’S THESIS
(UNPUBLISHED)
Frackman, Kyle E. The Abject of My Affection: “Heimosexuality” in German
Texts and Films. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 2009.
Ph.D. THESIS/
DISSERTATION
(PUBLISHED)
WEB PAGE
Brian, Greg. “How to Get Out of a Speeding Ticket at Court.” eHow,
http://www.ehow.com/how_6470364_out-speeding-ticketcourt.html. Accessed 16 Sept. 2016.
an entire WEB SITE
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov.
2003, https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/. Accessed 16
Sept. 2016.
YOUTUBE VIDEO
“Chipmunk Family Rushes to Gather Nuts for the Winter.” YouTube,
uploaded by Rumble Viral, Jan. 27, 2016,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZOi99aqOx0.
TWEET
@patterballs. “Obama announces marine reserve in Pacific Ocean will be
off limits to development. Trump vows to ‘build hotel there, get
fish to pay for it’.” Twitter, 2 Sept. 2016, 2:38 p.m.,
https://twitter.com/patterballs/status/771764372263866368.
CLASS LECTURE/
PRESENTATION
Whetter, Kevin. “Religious Tales (and Non-Religious Rivalries).”
Mediaeval Literature 2, 28 Oct. 2015, Acadia University, Wolfville,
NS. Lecture.
FILM
Trainwreck. Directed by Judd Apatow, Universal Studios, 2015.
TV SHOW
“A Rapidly Mutating Virus.” You’re the Worst. FXX, 18 Nov. 2015.
IN-TEXT CITATIONS
(in the body of your paper)
There are two ways to make in-text citations in MLA style:
1.
Cite the author’s last name and the page number in parentheses immediately after the quotation or
paraphrase:
Side effects of sword swallowing, such as sore throat, occur when “oddshaped or multiple swords are used” (Witcombe and Meyer 1286).
2.
Make the author’s name part of your sentence and cite the page number in parentheses at the end of
the sentence.
Witcombe and Meyer assert that side effects, such as sore throat, are most
common when “odd -shaped or multiple swords are used” (1286).
MORE ON MLA STYLE
Gibaldi, Joseph, and Modern Language Association of America. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
8th ed. Modern Language Association of America, 2016. Available at the Research Help desk.
Russell, Tony, et al. “MLA Formatting and Style Guide.” The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 12 Sept.
2016, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/. Accessed 16 Sept. 2016.