MLA CITATION FORMAT FOR BOOKS AND WEBSITES

[Pages:1]MLA CITATION FORMAT FOR BOOKS AND WEBSITES (Revised 2013)

Use Citation Machine at for assistance. Citations for books can be generated in the library catalog for you if you save your books into a resource list. You will need to properly capitalize the words in the title. Britannica Online, SIRS, Facts on File, Gale, and CultureGrams databases provide citations.

Book: (Note: Capitalize all major words in the title of any citation) Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title of Book. Publishing City: Publisher,

Copyright date. Medium of publication. Example: Jones, Thomas. Life in the 1960s. New York: Random House, 2002. Print.

Website: Last Name, First Name of editor, author, or compiler (if available). "Title of Web Page." Title

of Web Site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access. . (use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.) Example: Jackson, Cecil. "Fashion of the 60's." Decades of the 20th Century. American Historical Society, 26 Oct 2008. Web. 20 Sept 2009. .

Web Image: Last Name, First name of artist/photographer/designer. Title of work. Year published. Name

of website or media hosting the image, City of hostin organization. Medium. Date of access. Example: Cox, Daniel J. Northern Lights . 2010. The Guardian News and Media, New York. Web. 18 Mar 2013. .

Periodical/Magazine: Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. Medium of publication. Example: Santos, George. "New Findings in Stem Cell Research." Scientific American 22 Oct. 2001:

70-74. Print.

Sound clip from Soundzabound: Artist Last Name, Artist First name. Title of Work. Soundzabound Royalty Free Music,

, Garland ISD.

Bibliography Page Put in alphabetical order by author's last name or first letter of article title 1st line of each citation goes on left margin 2nd and more lines of a citation are indented 5 spaces Double space all lines

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