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MLA Style Documentation

With MLA style documentation, the bibliography page is titled “Works Cited.” Listings are made in alphabetical order by author. Indent the second line and the following lines in the citation by five spaces. Use the hanging indent feature in Word. For directions, see our “Academic Essay in MLA Format” tip sheet.

The general format for MLA works cited is as in the following:

1. Last name, first name followed by a period

2. Title of the work in italics followed by a period

3. City of publication: Publisher, Date followed by a period.

Tan, Amy. The Bonesetter’s Daughter. New York: Putnam, 2001.

When citing an article, the format is as in the following:

1. Last name, first name followed by a period

2. Title of the work in “quotes” with a period before the closing quotation mark

3. Title of the Journal in italics followed by the volume number and issue number (separated by a period) year of publication within (parentheses): page numbers and a period

Lowe, Michelle S. “Britain’s Regional Shopping Centres: New Urban Forms?” Urban Studies 37.2 (2000): 261-274.

To cite a work by more than one author, follow the same format for general rules, adding additional authors after the first name of the first author listed, separated by commas and with an “and” before the final name. You can use the term ‘et al’ to denote that the first author listed is one of many and leave out names after the first, but it is not commonly practiced:

Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth about History. New York: Norton, 1994.

To credit an editor instead of an author, use the general format followed by a comma and the abbreviation “Ed.” To list an editor and an author put “Ed.” after the title of the work, followed by the name of the editor and a period. This is also how you would list an individual’s work from an anthology or a particular chapter within a work with an editor. To cite a translator, use the same format, placing “Trans.” instead of “Ed.” after the title of the work. In anthologies or works with editors, include referring page numbers at the end. For example:

Last name, first name of the author. Title of the work. Ed. editor’s name. Trans. translator’s name. City: Publisher, year. Starting & ending page numbers 1-2.

To list more than one work by the same author, organize the works in alphabetical order by title and list the first work in general format. For following works, list them directly beneath the primary listing and use three dashes and a period in place of the name of the author:

Lore, Audre. A Burst of Light. Ithaca: Firebrand, 1988.

---. Sister Outsider. Trumansburg: Crossing, 1984.

For governmental works, begin with the name of the author if it is provided. If no name is provided, begin with the name of the government, i.e. United States, followed by the agency or department, i.e. Department of Transportation. You may use abbreviations if they are easily understood, i.e. Dept. of Educ. For congressional documents, cite the number, session and House of Congress (using S for Senate and H or HR for House of Representatives), type of document, and number of the material.

New Hampshire. Dept. of Transportation. Right of Way Salinity Reports, Hillsborough County, 1985. Concord: New Hampshire Dept. of Transportation, 1986.

Even though website information can be vastly different from site to site, all websites should be cited in a very similar manner. The information listed below should be included, in order, leaving out items to which you do not have access. If an online article is found through a password protected service or a service which requires a subscription, treat that journal like a print journal article instead of a web page. When using Microsoft Word, the auto-formatting feature will attempt to turn web addresses into links by underlining them and coloring them blue. To fix this after it has happened, use the Undo AutoFormat feature found under the Edit menu option.

Information to include, in order:

1. author

2. title of the work in “quotes”

3. print publication information (if applicable)

4. title of online site, project, journal, or database in italics

5. online publication information: editor, date of latest update, volume and issue number of online journal, name of online service, sponsor of site, or name of discussion list AND academic search engine, if applicable

6. date when you accessed the site

7. electronic address (URL) enclosed in and followed by a period, breaking lines only after a slash (\) and never breaking up a block of text

Examples

Journal Article From an Online Database Search

Lowe, Michelle S. “Britain’s Regional Shopping Centres: New Urban Forms?” Urban Studies 37.2 (2000): 261-274. Academic Search Elite. EBSCO. Brooklyn Public Lib., Brooklyn NY. 3 May 2003 .

Online Journal Article Without Database Information

Lowe, Michelle S. “Britain’s Regional Shopping Centres: New Urban Forms?” Urban Studies 37.2 (2000): 261-274.

Online Newspaper, Journal, or Newsletter

Hatchuel, Sarah. “Leading the Gaze: From Showing to Telling in Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V and Hamlet.” Early Modern Literary Studies 6.1 (2000) 22 pars. 10 May 2003 .

Professional Site

MLA: Modern Language Association. 9 May 2003. Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer. 8 Sept. 2003 .

Scholarly Project Online

Perseus Digital Library. Ed. Gregory Crane. Updated daily. Tufts U. 9 Sept. 2003 .

Government Publication Online

United States. Dept. of Educ. Office of Educ. Research and Improvement. Natl. Center for Educ. Statistics. Digest of Education Statistics, 2000. Washington: GPO 2001. Jan. 2001. 5 Feb. 2002 .

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