Guide
to
MLA : Modern Languages
Association Style Manual
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Format:
Author's
last name, first name and initial. Title of
book. Publication
location:
Publisher, year.
Example:
Townsend,
Robert M. The Medieval Village Economy.
Princeton:
Princeton
University Press,
1993.
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Entry in an Encyclopedia |
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Format:
Author's
last name, first name and initial. "Title
of the Entry." Title of the Encyclopedia.
Edition. Year.
Example
1:
Bergmann,
Peter. "Relativity." The New Encyclopaedia
Britannica . 17th ed.
1993.
Note:
If
an entry has no author, place the title of the
entry in the author position.
Example
2:
"Imago."
World Book Encyclopedia. 2000.
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Example
1:
(Bergmann
125)
Example
2:
("Imago")
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| Work in an Anthology |
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Format:
Author's last name, first name and initial. "Title of the Work." (or Title of the Play.) Title of the Anthology. Ed. (or Trans, or Comp. ) Name of the editor (or translator, or compiler). Publication location: Publisher, Year. Page numbers of the cited piece.
Example 1:
More, Hannah. "The Black Slave Trade: A Poem." British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Paula R. Feldman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. 472-82.
Example 2:
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Black Theater: A
Twentieth-Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Platwrights. Ed. Lindsay Patterson, New York: Dodd, 1971. 221-76.
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Example 1:
(More 472-82)
Example 2:
(Hansberry 221-76) |
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Journal Article |
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Format:
Author's
last name, first name and initial. "Title
of Article." Title of the
Journal
Vol number. issue number (year): page numbers.
Example
1:
Martinez-Pons,
Marie. "Parental Influences on Children's
Academic Self-Regulatory
Development." Theory Into Practice
41.2 (2002): 126-
132.
Note:
To
cite a magazine published weekly, give the complete
date. Do not
include
volume and issue numbers.
Example
2:
Nehta,
Pratap Bhanu. "Exploding Myths." New
Republic 6 June 1998:
17- 19.
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Example
1:
(Martinez-Pons,
128-129)
Example
2:
(Nehta
17)
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Journal Article Retrieved from a Library Database |
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Format:
Author's
last name, first name and initial. "Title of
Article." Title of the
Journal
Volume number. issue number (year): page numbers.
Name
of database. Database Company. Institution.
Date of retrieval <URL
of the database>.
Example:
Martinez-Pons,
Marie. "Parental Influences on Children's
Academic Self-Regulatory
Development." Theory Into Practice
41.2 (2002): 126-132.
Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. New
Jersey City U Lib. 16
Oct. 2002 <http://www.epnet.com>.
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Website |
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The
vast variety and inconsistency of web sites can
present challenges
for
creating accurate references. The following are
two basic formats for
citing
web site information.
Format
1: (Citing an entire Web Site)
Title
of Web Site. First and Last name of editor
if given. Date or the latest
update if given. Sponsoring institution or organization
if given. Day
month year accessed <URL>.
Example
1:
Bartleby.com
: Great Books Online. Ed. Steven Leeuwen.
2002. 5 May
2004 <http://www.bartleby.com>.
Example
2:
Victorian
Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett.
May 2000. Indiana U.
2 June 2002 <http://www.indiana.edu?~letters/vwwp>.
Format
2: (Citing a short work from a web site)
Last
name, First name of author if given. "Title
of Short Work." Title of
Web Site.
Date or the latest update
if given. Sponsoring institution
or organization if given. Day month year accessed
<URL>.
Example
1:
Shiva,
Vandana. "Bioethics: A Third World Issue."
NativeWeb. 15 Sept.
2001<http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html>.
Example
2:
"Media
Giants." Frontline: The Merchants of Cool.
2001. PBS Online. 7
Mar. 2001<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/giants>.
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Format
1: Example
1: (Bartleby)
Example 2: (Victorian Women Writers)
Format
2: Example
1: (Shiva)
Example 2: ("Media Giants")
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 College
writing usually recommends two major style manuals:
APA and MLA.
There
are other style manuals that may be suggested
by professors. These manuals are
available in the library reference area.
- Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (APA) 5th
Ed.
Call number: Ref. BF 76.7 .P83 2001.
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers 6th Ed.
Call number: Ref. LB 2369 .G53 2003.
- A manual for writers of research papers,
theses, and dissertations (Turabian)
7th Ed.
Call number: Ref. LB2369 .T8 2007.
- The Chicago manual of style
15th Ed.
Call number: Ref. Z253 .C572 2003
- Scientific style and format : the
CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers
7th Ed.
Call number: Ref. T11 .S386 2006
- The Columbia guide to online style
2nd Ed.
Call number: Ref. PN171 .F56 W35 2006
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