MLA 8 TH EDITION SAMPLE SOURCES FOR WORKS CITED PAGE

MLA 8TH EDITION: SAMPLE SOURCES FOR WORKS CITED PAGE

In the MLA 8th edition, citations are based on information about the source (author, title of source, container, publication date, etc.), referred to as elements. MLA requires these elements be in a certain order, with specific punctuation that follows each element. Most sources have a container. If a source is inside a larger whole, such as a short story in a textbook, an article on a website, or an episode in a TV series, MLA calls the larger whole a container. Sample citations of frequently used source categories follow below.

1. Article from a WEBSITE:

Author

Title of source

Container (Web site)

Publication date

Doheny, Kathleen. "Acute Flaccid Myelitis Cases Rising in Kids:FAQ." WebMD, 10 Oct.

2016, children/news/20161010/faq-acute-flaccid-myelitis#1.

Location (URL)

Note: Some sources have two containers. For example, for a journal article accessed through a database: Container 1 would be the journal, and Container 2 would be the database. See sample 2 below.

2. Journal Article from an ONLINE DATABASE:

Author(s)

Title of source

Container 1 (Journal title)

Version & number

Dixit, Jay, and Marissa Kristal. "Reading Between the Lines." Psychology Today, vol. 40, no. 4,

July-Aug. 2007, pp. 74-79. Academic Search Elite, ezproxy.stlcc.edu/login?url=http://

search.login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=25482785&site=ehost-live.

Publication date

Location of Container 1 (Page numbers)

Container 2 (Database)

Location of Container 2

(URL)

3. Reference on the WEB:

Title of source

Container 1 (Web site)

Date

Location (URL)

"Juxtaposition." , 2016. browse/juxtaposition.

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4. Journal Article from an ONLINE DATABASE with a DOI:

Author(s)

Title of Source

Camargo, Julio A., et al. "Eutrophication Downstream from Small Reservoirs in Mountain Rivers

of Central Spain." Water Research, vol. 39, no. 14, Elsevier Ltd., 2005, pp. 3376-84.

ScienceDirect, doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2005.05.048.

Container 2 (Database)

Location Container 2

(DOI)

Container 1 (Journal title)

Version & number

Publisher

Publication date

Location in Container 1

(pages)

5. Material from a GOVERNMENT AGENCY WEB SITE:

Author(s) (Government, Department, Agency)

Title of Source

United States, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention. "CDC Recommends Only Two HPV Suhrol ts for Younger Adolescents." Centers

url

url

for Disease Control and Prevention, 19 Oct. 2016,

media/releases/2016/p1020-hpv-shots.html.

Location (URL)

Publication date

Container 1 (Web site

title)

6. Article in an ONLINE NEWSPAPER:

Author(s)

Title of source

Publication Date

Container 1 (Newspaper)

Badger, Emily. "We're All a Little Biased Even If We Don't Know It." The New York Times, The

New York Times Company, 5 Oct. 2016, .

Publisher

Location (URL)

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7. Essay/Article in EDITED TEXT:

Author(s)

Title of source

Container 1 (Textbook)

Tyler, Kathryn. "The Tethered Generation." Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readings,

edited by John D. Ramage et al., 9th ed., Pearson, 2012, pp. 469-73.

Other Contributors

(Editors)

Version

Publisher

Publication date

Location

8. Article in a SCHOLARLY JOURNAL:

Author(s)

Title of source

Container 1 (Journal)

Naylor, K. E., et al. "The Effect of Pregnancy on Bone Density and Bone Turnover." Journal of

Bone and Mineral Research, vol. 15, no. 1, Jan. 2000, pp. 129-37.

Version & number

Publication date

Location (page numbers)

9. VIDEO on the WEB:

Begin with focus of paper ? in this case the creators

Title of source

Container 1 (Series)

The Duffer Brothers, creators. "The Vanishing of Will Byers." Stranger Things,

season 1, episode 1, Netflix, 2016. watch/80077368?trkid=

14277283&tctx=0%252C0%252Cd2B3908a-bb7d-4079-9699-703389d27546-4211168.

Number

Publisher

Publication date

Location (URL)

10. PODCAST:

Author

Title of source

Publisher

Date

Location (URL)

Burrell, Pamela. "My Unlikely Brothers." The Moth, 20 Sept. 2016, stories/

my-unlikely-brothers.

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11. INTERVIEW:

Author

Container

Date

Newsome, Harriet. Personal interview, 25 Oct. 2015.

12. BOOK:

Author

Title of source

Version

Publisher

Date

Strout, Elizabeth. My Name Is Lucy Barton. Reprint, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2016.

DETAILS REGARDING THE ELEMENTS OF AN MLA WORKS CITED CITATION Not all sources will have every element. Skip if not provided.

Elements Author

Title

Examples and Notes The first author named should be inverted: Last name, First name. All other names are as usual: First name Last name. See examples in the chart below.

Number of Authors One Two Three or more

Examples Brown, Jack. Brown, Jack and Laura Jackson. Brown, Jack, et al.

If no author is given, skip straight to the title. If it is a government document, the author is the federal, state, or local entity. Examples include United States or Missouri State.

The title of your essay and the titles of sources should use Capital letters for the first letter of the major words and the first words of the title and subtitle. Use a colon to separate the title and subtitle. Example: "The Best Laid Plans: Scheduling Your Time."

Should your title be in quotes or italics?

Quotes

Italics

Short works:

Long Works:

"Article Titles"

Book Titles

"Essay Titles"

Magazine Titles

"Poem Titles"

Movie Titles

"Song Titles"

Album/Record Titles

"Episode Titles"

TV Show Titles

Website Titles

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Title of container 1 or 2

Often an article or shorter piece is contained within a larger whole, in which case you should include the title of the container. Some sources have two containers, such as an article in a journal (container 1) in a database (container 2).

Article Journal (Container 1) Database (Container 2)

See samples citations #2 and #4 one pages 1 and 2 of this handout for articles in databases. Possible containers include: Book, Magazine, Journal, Newspaper, Website, TV Show, Movie, CD, DVD, Database or Service, Digital Streaming Channel, Podcast

Other contributors

See sample citation #7 on page 3. Possible contributors include: edited by, created by, adapted by, directed by, performance by, translated by

Version

See sample citation #7 on page 3. Possible versions include edition number or special version/edition. Examples are: 3rd ed., King James Version, Expanded ed., director's cut

Number

Journals often have volume numbers, or both volume and issue numbers. See sample citation #9 on page 3. TV shows have seasons and episode numbers. See sample citation #4 on page 2. Possible numbers include: vol. 128 vol. 3, no. 5 no. 57 season 2, episode 8

Publisher

If the work is published by its author, skip this item. Omit ending terms such as Inc. and Co. When listing academic publishers of books, abbreviate University as U and Press as P. Example: University of Chicago Press becomes U of Chicago P.

Publication date

Include full date given in source. Dates should be in European format: date, then abbreviated month, and then year. Example: 12 Nov. 2016. Abbreviate all months except May, June, and July. Sometimes only the year or only the month and year are provided.

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