MLA (Modern Language Association) citation style
EXAMPLES
Source type
Book: 1 author
Template of in-
Example of in-text
Template of source description in reference
text citation
citation
list
(Surname
pages)
(Henley 15)
Surname, Name. Book title: Subtitle. Place of
Example of source description in reference list
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999. Print.
publication, Year. Medium of publication.
Book: 2
authors
(Surname1 and
Surname2
pages)
(Gillespie and Lerner
54)
Surname1, Name1 and Name2 Surname2. Book
title: Subtitle. Place of publication, Year.
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring.
Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.
Medium of publication
Book: 3
authors
(Surname1,
Surname2 and
Surname3
pages)
(Patten, Guy and Unitt
48)
Surname1, Name1, Name2 Surname2 and
Name3 Surname3. Book title: Subtitle. Place
Patten, Michael A., Guy McCaskie, and Philip Unitt. Birds of the Salton Sea: Status,
Biogeography, and Ecology. Berkeley: U of California P, 2003. Print.
of publication, Year. Medium of publication.
Book: > 3
authors
(Surname1 et al.
pages)
(Wysocki et al. 98)
Surname1, Name1, et al. Book title: Subtitle.
Place of publication, Year. Medium of
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for
Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.
publication.
Book: no
author
(Book title
pages)
(History of Greece
254)
Book title: Subtitle. Place of publication, Year.
A History of Greece. Sydney: Irwin, 1994.Print.
Medium of publication.
Book:
corporate
author
(Name of
organization
pages)
(American Allergy
Association 9)
Book: part of
book (chapter,
article)
(Surname
pages)
(Wells 85)
Name of organization Book title: Subtitle. Place
American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. New York: Random, 1998. Print.
of publication, Year. Medium of publication
Surname, Name. “Title of book part: Subtitle.“
Book title: Subtitle. Place of publication,
Wells, Ida B. "Lynch Law in All Its Phases." With Pen and Voice: A Critical
Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women. Ed. Shirley Wilson
1
Publisher, Year. Pages of book part. Medium
Logan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1995. 80-99. Print.
of publication.
Book: the
same author,
different
books
(Surname, Book
title pages)
(Palmer, Dickens and
New Historicism 30)
Surname, Name. Book title: Subtitle. Place of
Palmer, William, J. Dickens and New Historicism. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. Print.
publication, Publisher, Year. Medium of
(Palmer, The Films of
the Eighties: A Social
History 15)
---. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP,
publication.
1993. Print.
---. Book title: Subtitle. Place of publication,
Publisher, Year. Medium of publication.
Book: later
editions(not
the first)
(Surname
pages)
Book:
translation
(Surname
pages)
Book:
multivolume
work (1
volume cited)
(Crowley 15)
Surname, Name. Book title: Subtitle. Edition.
Publisher, Year. Medium of publication.
(Surname
Volume
number: pages)
(Foucault 30)
(Quintilian 2: 16)
Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students.
3rd ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004. Print.
Surname, Name. Book title: Subtitle. Translated
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of
by Name Surname. Place of publication,
Reason. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Vintage-Random House, 1988.
Publisher, Year. Medium of publication.
Print.
Surname, Name. Book title: Subtitle. Trans.
Name Surname. Vol. X. Place of publication.
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria. Trans. H. E. Butler. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Loeb-Harvard
UP, 1980. Print.
Publisher, Year. Medium of publication.
Book:
multivolume
work (several
volumes cited)
(Surname
Volume X:
pages, Volume
Y: pages)
(Quintilian1: 16, 4: 54)
Surname, Name. Book title: Subtitle. Trans.
Name Surname. X vols. Place of publication.
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria. Trans. H. E. Butler. 4 vols. Cambridge: Loeb-Harvard
UP, 1980. Print.
Publisher, Year. Medium of publication.
E-book (in
database or
repository)
(Surname
pages)
(Danytė 23)
Surname, Name. Book title: Subtitle. Place of
publication:
Publisher,
Year.
Name
of
Danytė, Milda. Introduction to the Analysis of Crime Fiction: A User-Friendly Guide.
Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus University, 2011. Vytautas Magnus University e.
2
database
or
publication.
repository.
Date
Medium
of
of
access.
publication repository (VMU ePub). Online. 18 Nov. 2014.
<http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:B.03~2011~ISBN_978-9955-12-698-0>.
<http://www.address.lt>.
E-book: part
of book in
database or
repository
(Surname
pages)
(Stundžia 25)
Surname, Name. “Title of book part: Subtitle.“
Stundžia, Bonifacas. “The main changes in the accentuation of spoken Lithuanian,
Book title: Subtitle. Place of publication:
their intensification and importance for the development of the accentual system of
Publisher, Year. Pages of book part.
modern Lithuanian and for the codification of standard language.“ Jaunimo
Medium of publication. Name of database
kirčiavimo polinkiai: bendrinės kalbos normos ir vartosenos tendencijos. Kaunas:
or repository. Medium of publication. Date
Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, 2013. 19-29. Vytautas Magnus University e.
of access. <http://www.address.lt>.
publication
repository
(VMU
ePub). Online.
18
Nov.
2014.<http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:B.03~2013~ISBN_978-9955-12988-2>.
E-book:
available only
on Internet
(Surname
pages)
(Thomas and
Groysberg 5)
Surname, Name. Book title: Subtitle. Place of
Thomas, David A. and Boris Groysberg. Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a
publication: Publisher, Year. Medium of
World-Class HR Organization . Boston (Mass.): Harvard Business School, 2010.
publication.
Online. 25 Nov. 2014 <http://knygos.vdu.lt/full/PROMOK/410082PDFENG.pdf>.
Date
of
access.
<http://www.address.lt>.
Article
(Surname
pages)
(Aleksandravičius 348)
Surname,
Name.
„Article
title:
Subtitle.“
Journal title Volume.Number (Year): Pages.
Aleksandravičius, Egidijus. "Post-Communist Transition: The Case of Two Lithuanian
Capital Cities." Revue internationale de sociologie 16.2 (2006): 347-360. Print.
Medium of publication.
E-article in
database or
repository
(Surname
pages)
(Mansbach 93)
Subtitle.“
Mansbach, Steven A. "Modernist Architecture and Nationalist Aspiration in the Baltic:
Journal title Volume.Number (Year): Pages.
Two Case Studies." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65.1 (2006):
Name of database. Medium of publication.
92-111. JSTOR. Online. 11 Dec. 2014
Surname,
Name.
“Article
title:
3
Date of access.
E-article in
online journal
Website
(Surname
pages)
(Surname)
(Budriūnaitė 5)
(Vytautas Magnus
University Library)
(Name of
organization)
Surname,
Name.
„Article
title:
Subtitle.“
Budriūnaitė, Agnė. „The Art of Stopping when it's Time to Stop. A Philosophical
Journal title Volume.Number (Year): Pages.
Approach to the Daoist Notion of Wú Wéi.“ International Journal of Area
Medium of publication. Date of access.
Studies 9.1 (2014): 5-18. Online. 19 Nov. 2014
Surname, Name or Name of organization.
Vytautas Magnus University Library. "Bibliographic references and reference
„Name of webpage.“ Name of website.
lists." Vytautas Magnus University Library. 2014. Online. 18 Nov. 2014.
Year. Medium of publication. Date of
<http://biblioteka.vdu.lt/en/bibliographic-help>.
access. <http://www.address.lt>.
Website: no
date
(Surname)
(Hand)
(Name of
organization)
Surname, Name or Name of organization.
Hand, Becky. "All about artificial sweeteners: The lowdown on zero-calorie sugar
„Name of webpage.“ Name of website. n.d.
substitutes." SparkPeople. n.d.
Medium of publication. Date of access.
<http://www.sparkpeople.com>.
Online.
4
Dec.
2014
<http://www.address.lt>.
Court cases
(Name of case)
(Harper v. Virginia
Board of Elections)
Name of case. Case no. Court. Date. Medium of
publication.
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections. 383 U.S. 663. Supreme Court of the United
States. 1966. Supreme Court Collection. Legal Information Inst., Cornell U. Law
School, 16 Jan. 2012.
Legal acts
(Name of legal
act)
(Law on equal
treatment of the
Republic of Lithuania)
Name of legal act. Legal act no. Title of
publication where legal act was announced.
Publication
no.
Year.
Medium
Law on equal treatment of the Republic of Lithuania. No. IX-1826. Valstybės žinios,
No. 114-5115. 2003. Print.
of
publication.
Conference
paper
(Surname
pages)
(Kupčinskienė 529)
Surname, Name. “Title of paper.“ Conference
Kupčinskienė, Eugenija. “Morphophysiological Characteristics of Needles of Pinus
paper title: Subtitle. Date, location of
Sylvestris Trees Near Industrial Pollution Sources of Lithuania.“ International
4
conference (if not indicated in title). Place
Botanical Congress, St. Louis, USA, August 1-7, 1999: Abstracts. Saint Louis
of publication: Publisher, Year. Pages.
(Mo.): Missouri Botanical Garden, 1999. 529. Print.
Medium of publication.
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