Curtis Senior High School MLA 8 Documentation

Curtis Senior High School MLA 8 Documentation

MLA Documentation has two parts: 1. A detailed list of Works Cited 2. A citation within the text of the academic paper (parenthetical or in-text)

Works Cited Definition: An alphabetical list of all the sources you use to write your paper. Works you consult during your research but do not borrow from are not included in this list. (They would be included on a Works Consulted list.)

Works Cited Formatting: All sources are listed alphabetically by the first word in each citation entry. Double-space the list Indent the second line of an entry either by using hanging indent or indent the second line of each entry five spaces (Control and Tab on a Windows machine). Top of page and sides have 1" margins

Core Elements and Punctuation

company/organization/editor chapter, article, song, etc. book, magazine, website, etc.

critical to getting item published edition published more than once volume, issue, number, episode company/organization most recent page number(s)

1. Author. 2. Title of source. 3. Title of container, 4. Other contributors, 5. Version, 6. Number, 7. Publisher, 8. Publication date, 9. Location.

period "period" comma comma comma comma

comma period

In the following examples, the number below the information corresponds with the sections on the MLA 8 chart above.

Print book

PRINT BOOKS

Hatfield, Charles, et al., editors. The Superhero Reader. University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

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Karsh, Ellen, and Arlen Sue Fox. The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need. 4th ed., Basic Books, 2014.

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Pardlo, Gregory. Digest. Four Way Books, 2014.

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Print book with additional contributor

Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Peter Green, University of California Press, 2015.

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Shakespeare, William. Coriolanus. Edited by Peter Holland, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.

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Print Book with corporate author

American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. Random House, 1998.

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Print Book with corporate author that is NOT the publisher:

Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Peter Green, University of California Press, 2015.

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Shakespeare, William. Coriolanus. Edited by Peter Holland, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.

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Print Book with corporate author that is the both author and publisher

Fair Housing--Fair Lending. Aspen Law & Business, 1985.*

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*Skip the author at the beginning but put it in as the publisher.

Book Chapter or Part of a Book

Crehan, Kate. "Culture." Critical Terms for the Study of Gender, edited by Catharine R. Stimpson and Gilbert

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Herdt, The University of Chicago Press, 2014, pp. 41-65.

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Gottlieb, Sidney. "Persuasion and Cinematic Approaches to Jane Austen." Literature/Film Quarterly,

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edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks, W. W. Norton & Company, 2013, pp. 301-311.

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Tyler, Anne. "Manic Monologue." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Roger Matuz, vol. 58, Gale Research,

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1990, p. 325. Originally published in The New Republic, vol. 200, no.16, 17 Apr. 1989, pp. 44-46.

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Encyclopedia/Dictionary (print)

Barber, Russell J. "Anthropological Ethics." Ethics, edited by John K. Roth, Rev. ed., vol. 1, Salem Press, 2005,

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pp. 67-69.

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"Guyana" Oxford Encyclopedia of World History, compiled by Market House Books, Oxford Univeresity Press, 1998, p. 283

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PRINT ARTICLES

Print article

Brantley, Ben, et al. "'Hamilton, 'Yes, But That's Not All'." The New York Times, vol. CLXV, no. 57, 233,

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15 May 2016, pp. AR 6-9.

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Kreisel, Deanna K. "The Madwoman on the Third Story: Jane Eyre in Space." PMLA, vol. 131, no. 1, 2016,

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pp. 101-115. MLA Journals, doi: 10.1632/pmla.2016.131.1.101.

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ELECTRONIC SOURCES

Database article

Otero, Valerie K. and David E. Meltzer. "A Discipline Specific Approach to the History of U.S. Science Education."

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Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 46, no. 3, Jan./Feb. 2017, pp. 34-39. Academic Search Complete,

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search..* Accessed 18 Jan. 2017.

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*Check with instructor to see whether the whole URL is required. At CHS, we stop after the suffix (i. e. .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov.).

eBook

Hall, Gary. "There Are No Digital Humanities." Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K.

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Gold, University of Minnesota Press, 2012, dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/21.

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Hart, James D. and Phillip W. Leininger. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 6th ed., Oxford

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University Press, 2013. Oxford Digital Reference Shelf, .

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Journal article (online database)

Otero, Valerie K. and David E. Meltzer. "A Discipline Specific Approach to the History of U.S. Science Education."

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Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 46, no. 3, Jan./Feb. 2017, pp. 34-39. Academic Search Complete,

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search.. Accessed 18 Jan. 2017.

Journal article open internet

Lee, Michelle. "Reference on the Road." Library Journal, 7 Nov. 2013, reviews.. Accessed 24 Jan.

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OTHER

Brochure, pamphlet, or press release

Women's Health: Problems of the Digestive System. American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, 2006.

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Course Handout

Buffay, Phoebe. "Beyond Smelly Cat." Friends 101, Central College. 3 May 2008. Course handout.

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Government publication

United States, Congress, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearing on the Geopolitics of Oil.

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Government Printing Office, 2007. 110th Congress, 1st session, Senate Report 111-8.

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Interview (published or broadcast)

Gaitskill, Mary. Interview with Charles Bock. Mississippi Review, vol. 27, no. 3, 1999. pp. 129-50.

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Multimedia

"Four Weddings and a Funeral (Minus Three Weddings and a Funeral)." Happy Endings, season 2, episode 21,

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Sony Pictures Television, 04 April 2012. Hulu, watch/347176#i0,p20,s2,d0.

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Radio broadcast

"Death and Society." Weekend Edition Sunday. National Public Radio, WUWI, Milwaukee, 25 Jan. 1988.

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Powerpoint presentation

Christman, Norma. "Computer Worms and Viruses." PowerPoint slides, 2016. ED 100: College Seminar, Blackboard,

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*If you are citing PowerPoint slides printed by an instructor, then use the same format, but omit Blackboard and the URL in the above example. Replace the URL with the location of class (Academic Building 226).

Presentation

Paulson, Paul. "ANTH 110: Week 2: The Nature of Culture." 15 Jan. 2016. Anthropology 110, Columbia College

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Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

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Speech/lecture notes

Stein, Bob. "Reading and Writing in the Digital Era." Discovering Digital Dimensions: Computers and Education

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Conference, 23 May 2003, Union Club Hotel, West Lafayette, IN. Keynote Address.

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Rathbun, Breanne. "Math 110: Statistics." Academic Building 151, 20 Jan. 2017.

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Translation of a book

Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard

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Howard, Vintage-Random House, 1988.

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Website

Cliffe, Nicole. "How I Pray." The Toast, 13 October 2015, 2015/10/13/on-prayer/.

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"Ohio Cartoonists." Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Ohio State University Libraries, February 2016,

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cartoons.osu.edu/digital-resources/ohio-cartoonists/.

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LITERARY CRITICISM

These citations use the numbering system from the front page twice ? once for the original container and again for the second container. This is similar to how you cite articles from databases.

Work originally published in a magazine

Tyler, Anne. "Manic Monologue." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Roger Matuz, vol. 80, Gale Research,

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1994, pp.174-175. Originally published in The New Republic, vol. 200, no. 16, 17 Apr.1989, pp. 44-46.

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Work originally published in a continuously paged journal

Cutler, Bruce. "What We Are, and Are Not." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by James P. Draper, vol. 80,

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Gale Research, 1994, pp. 174-75. Originally published in Poetry, vol. 108, no. 4, July 1966, pp. 269-72.

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