MLA FORMAT - Merced College



Note: All citations should be DOUBLE-SPACED and indented after the first line. In your works cited page, citation entries should be alphabetized (regardless of the type of source).

MLA FORMAT

WORKS CITED

BOOK

Author(s)/Compiler/Editor/Translator. Title of work. Edition. Volume(s). City of publication: Name of publisher, year of publication. Medium of publication.

McGee, Glenn. Beyond Genetics: Putting the Power of DNA to Work in Your Life. 2nd ed. New

York: Morrow, 2006. Print.

NOTE: If there is no author or editor’s name on the title page, begin the entry with the title. If there are several cities of publication listed, give only the first.

BOOK WITH TWO OR THREE AUTHORS

Williamson, Thad, David Imbroscio, and Gar Alperovitz. Making a Place for Community: Local

Democracy in a Global Era. New York: Routledge, 2002. Print.

NOTE: If there are more than 3 authors, the author portion of the citation can be written as follows: Williamson, Thad, et al. OR all the names in full may be written in the order in which they appear on the title page.

EDITED BOOK

Dundes, Alan, ed. International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore. Lanham:

Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. Print.

CHAPTER IN A BOOK or WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY

Edgren, Altha Roberts. “Premature Labor.” The Gale Encyclopedia Medicine. 3rd ed. Vol. 4. Ed. Jacqueline L. Longe. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. 3011-3013. Print.

INTRODUCTION / PREFACE IN A BOOK

Kolve, V. A., and Glending Olson, eds. Preface. The Canterbury Tales: Nine Tales and the General Prologue.

By Geoffrey Chaucer. Critical ed. New York: Norton, 1989. xi-xvii. Print.

NOTE: If the citation is generally to the work of the editor, begin the entry with the editor’s name, followed by a comma and the abbreviation “ed.”, and give the author’s name, preceded by the word “By” after the title.

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Feldman, Amy. “The Selling of Safety.” Newsweek 3 Apr. 2003: 95-97. Print.

SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLE

Smith, Douglas W., Rolf O. Peterson, and Douglas B. Houston. “Yellowstone After Wolves.” Bioscience 53.4

(2003): 330-41. Print.

NOTE: Include the day and month of publication only if there is no volume.issue number.

INTERVIEW

Jones, Mabel B. Interview by Kathleen L. Brantley-Gutierrez. SJSU SLIS Oral History Project, San Jose. 10 Oct.

2006. CD.

Smith, Jane. Personal Interview. 20 May 2004.

CITING ELECTRONIC SOURCES

ONLINE FULL-TEXT DATABASES

Author(s). “Title of article.” Periodical title volume.issue number (year): page(s). Title of database. Medium of

publication. Date of access.

EBSCOhost - MasterFILE Premier

Holemans, Kathleen, et al. “Diet-Induced Obesity in the Rat: A Model for Gestational Diabetes

Mellitus.” American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 190.3 (2004): 858-65. MasterFILE

Premier. Web. 10 Aug. 2009.

eBook Collection (EbscoHost)

Kempt, James. Wireless Internet Security: Architecture and Protocols. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2008. eBook Collection (EbscoHost.) Web. 10 Oct. 2013.

Streaming Video

Children of the Holocaust. Films on Demand. Films Media Group, 1994. Web. 28 Jan. 2016.

Note: If only the starting page of the article is listed, give the number followed by a hyphen, space, and period: “35- .” If no page numbers are available, use “n. pag.” for no pagination.

|VISUAL ART, WORKS OF |

Artist. Title. Date of composition. Medium. Institution that houses the work. Title of database or web site. Medium of publication. Date of Access.

Lange, Dorothea. In a Camp with Migratory Pea Pickers. Photograph. George Eastman House. Artstor. Web. 4 Dec. 2014.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE FROM A WEB SITE

Author(s). “Article title.” Name of periodical volume.issue number (year of publication): inclusive page(s). Medium of

publication. Date of access.

Trakhtenbroit, Michael A., et al. “Banding vs. Bypass: Where’s the Weight?” The American Journal of Medicine 122.5 (2009): 435-42. Web. 1 June 2009.

ENTIRE WEB SITE

Author(s)/Compiler/Editor. “Title of work.” Title of website. Version or edition. Publisher or sponsor, Date of

publication. Medium of publication. Date of access. .

Cowell, Sidney Robertson. “California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties.” The WPA

California Folk Music Project. American Folklife Center, Lib. of Cong., 19 Oct. 1998. Web. 1 June 2009.

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American Cancer Society. Homepage. . American Cancer Society, Inc., 2009. Web. 1 June 2009.

Keith, Amy Elisa. “Natasha Henstridge: Diets and Pills Damaged My Body.” . People.1 June 2009. Web. 3 Sept. 2013.

NOTE: If the publisher or sponsor is not available, use: “n.p.” If the date of publication is not available, use: “n.d.” Untitled works may be identified by genre label: “Homepage” (neither italicized nor enclosed in quotation marks.

MLA 7th ed., 1/2015 AER.

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