MLA Citation Formats



MLA Citation Formats

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Transfer to your Bibliography exactly as you have filled out. Use underlines and quotes where indicated.

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BOOK BY ONE AUTHOR

Smith, Eric S. Seals. Boston: Little Brown, 2000.

_____________________________, _________________________.

Author’s Last name, Author’s First name.

(Indent _________________________________________. _____________________________________:

Line →) Title of Book (underlined). Place of Publication:

_________________________________, __________________.

Publisher, Date.

 

 

BOOK BY TWO OR THREE AUTHORS

Markman, Roberta H., Peter T. Markman, and Marie Waddell. 10 Steps in Writing the Research

 

Paper. New York: Barron's, 1999.

___________________________, ______________________, ___________________ _______________,

Author’s Last Name, Author’s First name, Author’s First name Last name,

(Indent and____________________ ______________________. _____________________________.

Line →) and Author’s First name Last name. Title of Book (underlined).

__________________________________: ____________________________, ___________.

Place of Publication: Publisher, Date.

 

 

BOOK BY AN EDITOR

Mazer, Anne, ed. A Walk in My World. New York: Persea, 1998.

___________________________, _____________________, ed. _________________________________.

Editor’s Last name, Editor’s First name, ed. Title of Book (underlined).

(Indent ________________________________: _____________________________, ___________.

Line →) Place of Publication: Publisher, Date.

 

 

BOOK BY AN ORGANIZATION OR GROUP

American Medical Association. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine.

 

New York: Random,1998.

_________________________________________________. ______________________________________.

Name of Organization. Title of Book (Underlined).

(Indent

Line →) ______________________________________: __________________________, ________.

Place of Publication: Publisher, Date.

 

 

BOOK WITH NO AUTHOR

A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union. New York: Collins, 1999

___________________________________________. _________________________________________:

Title of Book (underlined). Place of Publication:

(Indent ___________________________________________, ___________________.

Line →) Publisher, Date.

 

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BOOK FROM A MULTIVOLUME SET

Sadie, Stanley, ed. "Bassoon." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 2.

 

London: Macmillan,1980.

____________________________, ____________________, ed. “_________________________________.”

Last name of Editor, First name of Editor, ed. "Title of Article (in quotes)."

________________________________. Vol. __________. ____________________________:

(Indent Title of Book (underlined). Vol. #. Place of Publication:

Line →) 

___________________________________, ______________.

Publisher, Date.

 

  

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE WITH AUTHOR AND STATED EDITION

Blanchard, Wendie. "Weaving." The Encyclopedia Americana. International ed. 2001.

_____________________, ________________. “___________________________________.”

Last name of Author, First name of Author. "Title of Article (in quotes)."

(Indent ______________________________________________. ___________ ed. _______________.

Line →)  Title of Book (underlined). Edition. Date.

 

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE WITHOUT AUTHOR

"Norfolk Terrier." World Book Encyclopedia. 2002 ed.

“________________________________________________.” _____________________________________.

"Title of Article (in quotes)." Title of Book (underlined).

(Indent _____________________ ed.

Line →) Year of Edition.

 

 

MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA (CD-ROM Format)

Hoffman, Gary. "Detroit, Michigan: History." Compton's Encyclopedia 2000 Deluxe. CD-ROM.

Broderbund. 2000 ed.

_________________________, _________________________. “_________________________________.”

Last name of Author, First name of Author. "Title of Article (in quotes)."

(Indent _____________________________________________. ____________________.

Line →) Title of CD-ROM Program (underlined). Format.

__________________________________. _____________________ ed.

Publisher. Year of Edition.

 

 

 

MAGAZINE ARTICLE (in paper format)

Newman, Richard J. "The Best University." U.S. News and World Report 28 Sept. 2000:

114-15.

________________________, ___________________. “__________________________________________.”

Last name, First name. "Title of Article (in quotes)."

(Indent ____________________________________ _____ __________ _________:

Line →) Title of Magazine (underlined) Day Month Year:

_______________.

Page Number(s) of Article.

 

 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE (in paper format)

Manning, Anita. "Curriculum Battles from Left and Right." USA Today 2 Jan. 2001,

 

late ed. : D5.

_______________________, _______________________. “_______________________________________.”

Last name of Author, First name of Author. "Title of Article (in quotes)."

(Indent __________________________________ _____ ___________ _________,

Line →) Title of Newspaper (underlined) Day Month Year Of Article,

 

_______________: ______ _________.

Edition: Section Page.

 

EBSCOHOST

Johnson, Craig. "Sea Change." House Beautiful 9 July 2000: 116. MAS Online. EBSCOhost.

 

Seneca Media Center, Tabernacle, NJ. 6 Feb. 2003.

__________________________, ____________________. “_______________________________________.”

Last name of Author, First name of Author. "Title of Article (in quotes)."

(Indent ____________________________________ ____ __________ ________: __________.

Line →) Title of Publication (underlined) Day Month Year of Article: Page #s

___________________________________. EBSCOhost. Seneca Media Center,

Name of Database (underlined). Name of Service. Name of Library,

Tabernacle_________, NJ . _____ ______ __________________.

City, State. Day Month Year When You Got Info.

 

FACTS ON FILE

(See citation information at end of each article.)

Schneider, Dorothy and Carl J. Schneider. “Roosevelt, Eleanor.” First Ladies: A Biographical

 

Dictionary. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2001. Facts On File, Inc. American

 

Women’s History. Seneca Media Center, Tabernacle, NJ. 10 Feb. 2003.

__________________________, ____________________. “_______________________________________.”

Last name of Author, First name of Author. "Title of Article (in quotes)."

(Indent ____________________________________ _______________________:

Line →) Title of Publication (underlined) City:

___________________________________, _______ ______________. Seneca Media Center,

Name of Database (underlined). Year Name of Service. Name of Library,

Tabernacle , NJ _____ __________ __________.

City of Library, State of Library. Day Month Year When You Got Info.

 

SIRS

Towsend, John. "Scientists Create Artificial Chromosome." The Seattle Times 2 Nov. 2000:

 

A1+. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Seneca Media Center,

 

Tabernacle, NJ. 16 Feb. 2003.

 

__________________________, ____________________. “_______________________________________.”

Last name of Author, First name of Author. "Title of Article (in quotes)."

(Indent ____________________________________ ____ __________ ________: ____________.

Line →) Title of Publication (underlined) Day Month Year: Page Number(s).

___________________________________. SIRS Knowledge Source. Seneca Media Center,

Name of Database (underlined). Name of Service. Name of Library,

Tabernacle , NJ. ____ ______ ___________________.

City, State. Day Month Year When You Got Information.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA DATABASE

(See citation information at end of each article.)

"Bush, George." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004.  Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

19 Oct. 2004 .

“________________________________________.” Encyclopedia Britannica. ________________.

"Title of Article (in quotes)." Name of Database (underlined). Year of Publication.

(Indent _______ ________ _________________________. .

Line →) Day Month Year When You Got Info. .

 

INTERVIEW

Nahill, Steve. Personal interview. 31 May 2005.

___________________________, ____________________________. Personal interview.

Last name of person interviewed, First name of person interviewed. Personal interview.

______________ _____________________ _______________.

Day of interview Month of interview Year of interview.

LITFINDER

Irving, Washington. “Rip Van Winkle.” Stories. LitFINDER. 2004. Thompson Gale. Seneca Media Center,

Tabernacle, NJ. 15 September 2004. .

____________________________, _______________________. “__________________________________.”

Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Title of Entry (in quotes).”

Stories. LitFINDER 2004 . Thompson Gale. Seneca Media Center,

Stories. LitFINDER,Year of Publication (in italics) . Thompson Gale. Seneca Media Center,

Tabernacle, NJ. ___ ______ __________________________. .

Tabernacle, NJ. Day Month Year You Accessed Information. .

TWAYNE’S AUTHOR SERIES

Howard, Lillie P. Zora Neale Hurston. 1980. Twayne’s United States Authors Series Online.

Gale Group. Cherokee Media Center, Marlton, NJ. 6 Sept. 2001.

____________________________, _______________________. “__________________________________.”

Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Title of Entry (in quotes).”

_______________. Twayne’s United States Author Series Online. Thompson Gale.

Year of Publication. Twayne’s United States Author Series Online(in italics) . Thompson Gale.

Seneca Media Center. Tabernacle, NJ. ___ ______ __________________________.

Seneca Media Center. Tabernacle, NJ. Day Month Year You Accessed Information.

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WEBSITE WITH AUTHOR

Fish, Larry. "A Proposal to Help Navajo and Forests at the Same Time." The Philadelphia

 

Inquirer. 31 Aug. 2001. 20 Feb. 2003.

___________________________, ______________________. “_________________________________.”

Last name, First name. "Title of Web Page (in quotes)."

(Indent ________________________________________. _____ _________ _____________.

Line →) Name of Website (underlined). Day Month Year of Publication.

____ _______ ____________. .

Day Month Year You Accessed Info. .

 

 

WEBSITE WITH NO AUTHOR

"This Day in History: August 28." The History Channel Online. 1998. History Channel.

 

7 Feb. 2003 .

“_______________________________________________________________________________________.”

"Title of Web Page (in quotes)."

(Indent ________________________________________. _________________. _______________.

Line →) Name of Website (underlined). Year of Publication. Publisher.

____ _______ ____________. .

Day Month Year You Accessed Info. .

 

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Dir. Peter Jackson. Perf. Elijah Woods, Sean

Austin, and Ian McKellen. New Line Production, 2002.

______________________________. Dir. ______________________________.

Title of Movie (underlined). Dir. Director’s Name.

Perf. __________________________________________________________.

Perf. Performer’s names (separated by commas)

_______________________________________, ______________________.

Distributor, Year of Release.

These entries are based on: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: Modern language Association, 1999.

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