MLA Format
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Taken from chapter five of MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7 ed.) (2009). Page numbers below refer to this
manual. For more information about MLA format, see “Research and Documentation Online”: http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/ or
The Purdue OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
ONLINE RESOURCES (pp. 181-193)
Article from a library subscription database:
Author’s last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Name of Journal or Magazine Volume number.Issue number (year published):
page numbers. (If page numbers are not available use n. pag.) Title of Database. Web. Date of Access.
Theiding, Kara Olsen. “Anxieties of Influence: British Responses to Art Nouveau, 1900-04.” Journal of Design History 19.3
(2006): 215-231. JSTOR. Web. 31 July 2009.
Web Sites:
Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Work.” Title of overall Web site if different from Title of Work. Version or Edition Used.
Publisher or Site Sponsor, Date of Publication. (use n.d. if no date is available) Medium of publication (Web). Date of
access.
Entire web site:
Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. Lib. Of Cong., 26 Mar. 2009. Web. 31 July
2009.
Article in a web site:
Green, Penelope. “The New Antiquarians.” New York Times. New York Times, 29 July 2009. Web. 31 July 2009.
Image from a web site:
“Evansville, IN.” Map. Google Maps. Google, 31 July 2009. Web. 31 July 2009.
Web site with no author:
“The Buddha.” BBC. BBC, 2 Nov. 2002. Web. 31 July 2009.
Work on a web site with print publication data:
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Boston: Thayer, 1860. Walt Whitman Archive. Web. 31 July 2009.
Electronic book:
Robinson, Simon. Spirituality, Ethics, and Care. London: Kinsley, 2008. NetLibrary. Web. 31 July 2009.
BOOKS (pp. 148-181)
Author or editor’s last name, First name. Title of Book: Sub-title. Edition. City of publication: Publisher, Year published. Medium of
Publication.
Single author:
Jones, Terry. Who Murdered Chaucer? New York: Dunne, 2008. Print.
Two or more authors:
Johnson, Claudia D., and Vernon E. Johnson. Understanding the Odyssey: a Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and
Historic Documents. Westport: Greenwood P, 2003. Print.
Editor:
Carson, Christie, and Farah Karim-Cooper, eds. Shakespeare’s Globe: A Theatrical Experiment. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2008. Print.
Anthology:
Hughes, Langston. “My People.” The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. Ed. Arnold Rampersad.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 74. Print.
Reference book entry:
Kline, Daniel T. “Sesame Street.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford UP,
2006. Print.
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Government publication:
United States. Cong. House. Committee on Small Business. Full Committee Hearing on Food Prices and Small Businesses.
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110 Cong., 2 sess. Washington: GPO, 2008. Print.
PERIODICALS: Hard-Copy (pp. 136-148)
Author’s last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Name of Journal or Magazine Volume number.Issue number (Year published):
Page numbers. Print.
Article in a scholarly journal or monthly magazine:
Watson, George. “The High Road to Narnia.” American Scholar 78.1 (2009): 89-95. Print.
Article in a magazine (published every 1-2 weeks):
Lahr, John. “Trapped: Two Plays Examine the Prisons of Self and State.” New Yorker 27 Apr. 2009: 72-73. Print.
Additional Sources (pp. 193-211)
DVD or Video:
Title. Director (Dir.) and performers (Perf.). (Original Release Date if Applicable). Distributor, Year released. Medium.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Dir. Blake Edwards Perf. Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, .Mickey Rooney, and Buddy Ebsen. 1961.
Paramount, 2006. DVD.
Personal interview:
Bayh, Evan. Personal interview. 10 Apr. 2009.
Personal communication:
MacKay, Johanna. “Re: Library Instruction.” Message to Lori Goetsch. 18 Feb. 2009. E-mail.
In-Text Citations (pp. 213-232)
Paraphrasing or quoting without author’s name in a sentence:
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was originally written for a ghost story competition (Harriet 89).
Paraphrasing or quoting with author’s name in a sentence:
Paulsen believes this specific system is doomed to fail (45-56).
Referencing more than one author in a sentence:
Several scholars note the interdisciplinary nature of Women’s Studies (Hale 80; Moore 45).
Quoting an author:
Cohn explains, “Issues associated with children’s direct participation in armed conflict or indirect participation as
witnesses are among the most manifest concerns to be dealt with during peacemaking, yet they are routinely
overlooked” (180).
Unknown author:
You will cite by the full title (if brief) or a shortened version of the title using the word by which the title is alphabetized.
In this example the title is “Filtration Management Systems”.
The filtration system in place was problematic and was eventually replaced in 1918 (“Filtration” 196).
No page number:
Though his company was not as profitable as he expected, the factory owner’s children stood to inherit millions
(Sampson)
For additional citation examples and a sample Works Cited page,
please see the electronic Citation Handbook for 2013 at:
http://wwwcc.ivytech.edu/shared/shared_llibrarycc/pdf/IvyTechSouthwestCitationHandbook2013_August_A.pdf