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MLA Style Guide

MLA - Modern Language Association

• MLA Style Guide from Long Island University
• MLA Writer's Handbook from University of Wisconsin-Madison

Citing References in Text

• Ancient writers attributed the invention of the monochord to Pythagoras, who lived in the sixth century BC (Marcuse 197).
• At the intersection of language and culture lies a concept that Michael Agar has called "languaculture" (60).

Works Cited – Examples

Also called: Literature Cited, Bibliography
References should be collected in an alphabetical list at the end of the paper.
Double-space all entries and between entries.

PRINT SOURCES

Journal Article
For journals with continuous pagination, issue numbers are not necessary, but for journals with non-continuous pagination, the volume number is followed by a period and the issue number.
Omit initial articles (a, an, the) in journal titles.

Girardet, Edward. "Eyewitness Afghanistan." National
  
     Geographic 200.6  (2001): 130-137.

Magazine Article

Weintraub, Arlene, and Laura Cohen. "A Thousand-Year Plan

     for Nuclear Waste." Business Week 6 May 2002: 94-96.

Newspaper Article

Hirsch, Marianne. "The Day Time Stopped." Chronicle of

     Higher Education 25 Jan. 2002: B11-14.

Book - Single author

Marcuse, Sibyl. A Survey of Musical Instruments.

     New York: Harper, 1975.

Book - More than one author
For 3 or more authors, you can either list all authors in full, or the first author, et al.

Bolner, Myrtle S., and Gayle A. Poirer. The Research

     Process: Books and Beyond. Dubuque, Iowa:  Kendall

     Hunt, 2001.

Gilman, Sander, et al. Hysteria beyond Freud. Berkeley:
     
     U of California P, 1993.

Article or Chapter in an Anthology

More, Hannah. "The Black Slave Trade: A Poem." British

     Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Paula R.

     Feldman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. 472-482.

Encyclopedia Article

"Mandarin."  The Encyclopedia

     Americana. New York: Americana Corp., 1994 ed.

Government Publication

United States. Cong. Joint Committee on the Investigation

     of the Pearl Harbor Attack. Hearings. 79th Cong.,

     1st and 2nd sess. 32 vols. Washington: GPO, 1946.

ELECTRONIC OR INTERNET SOURCES

Online Article from a Scholarly Journal
After the date of publication, give the date of access and URL.

Fukui, Yoshio. "Real-Time High-Resolution Optical

     Sectioning Suggests Biphasic Cytokinetic Mechanism

     in Dictyostelium Discoideum." Microscopy Research

     and Technique 49.2 (2000): 183-189. 20 June 2001

     <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/search>.

Article from an Online Service (Database)
After page numbers, give the database name, database provider, name and address of the library, date of access and URL

Ellis, Aime J. "Where is Bigger's Humanity? Black Male

     Community in Richard Wright's Native Son." ANQ

     Summer 2002: 23-30 Wilson Select. OCLC FirstSearch.

     Albin O. Kuhn Library, Baltimore,MD. 23 December

     2002 <http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/>.

Professional or Personal Website
Web sites should include the title of the site, name of the editor (if given), electronic publication information (version #, date of electronic publication or latest update, name of sponsoring institution or organization), and date of access and URL.

Discovery Channel Homepage. 2002. Discover.Com.

     14 November 2000 <http://dsc.discovery.com/>.

Examples taken / modified from:

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research

     Papers. New York: Modern Language Association of 

     America, 2003.