MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY FORMAT FOR RMS



MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY (WORKS CITED) FORMAT FOR RMS

Rules

➢ Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper.

➢ Label and center the page Works Cited (do not underline or put in quotation marks).

➢ Alphabetize the Works Cited page by the first word of each entry (usually the last name of the author).

➢ Double space all lines (Format > Paragraph > Line Spacing > Double)

➢ Italicize or underline books and magazines (Click the “I” or “U” on toolbar)

➢ The first word of each entry should start at the left margin. Each additional line is indented one-half inch (Format > Paragraph > Special > Hanging Indent).

➢ When writing the date, list day before month. Use a three-letter abbreviation of the month (i.e., Jan., Mar., Aug.), except May, June, and July. If there is more than one edition available for that date (as in an early and late edition of a newspaper), identify the edition following the date (i.e., 17 May 2004, late ed.).

Books

(For One Author on a Book)

Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

(For Two Authors for One Book)

First author’s name is written last name first; subsequent author names are written first name, last name.

Howe, Russell Warren, and Sarah Hays Trott. The Power Peddlers. Garden City: Doubleday, 2000.

(For Three Authors for One Book)

Lowi, Theodore, Benjamin Ginsberg, and Steve Jackson. Analyzing American Government: American Government, Freedom and Power. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1994.

(For More Than Three Authors for One Book)

If more than three (3) persons authored the book, only the first name of the person should appear, followed by a comma and “et al.”

Wysocki, Anne Francis, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004.

(For Two or More Books by the Same Author)

After the first listing of the author’s name, use three hyphens and a period instead of the author’s name. List books alphabetically by title.

Palmer, William J. Dickens and New Historicism. New York: St. Martin’s, 1997.

---. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

Encyclopedias

(If author is listed)

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Encyclopedia. Date of Publication.

Sturgeon, Theodore. “Science Fiction.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1995.

(If no author is listed)

“Whale.” Britannica Junior Encyclopedia. 1996 ed.

(Online encyclopedia)

“Drake, Sir Francis.” Columbia Encyclopedia. 2002. Columbia Encyclopedia. 6 July 2003 .

Magazines

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Magazine. Day Month Year of Magazine: pages used.

Griffin, Edward. “Making Friends.” Newsweek. 17 March 1994: 30-35.

Newspaper Article

(If no author is listed)

“Title of Article.” Name of Newspaper Day Month Year of Newspaper, Section of Newspaper.

“Williamsburg to Disney World.” New York Times 21 Sep. 1975, sec. 10:1.

(If author is listed)

Author’s last name, first name. “Title of Article.” Name of Newspaper Date of Newspaper, Section of Newspaper.

Crossette, Barbara. “India Lodges First Charges in Scandal.” New York Times 23 Jan. 1990, natl. ed.: A4.

Pamphlet

Author’s Last Name, First Name. Name of Pamphlet. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

Smith, Thomas. Nutrition Facts. New York: Harper, 1995.

United States. Federal Maritime Commission. Hawaiian Trade Study: An Economic Analysis. Washington: GPO, 1978.

CD-ROMS (Electronic Encyclopedias, etc.)

“France.” The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Version 6.02. CD-ROM. Danbury, Ohio: Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc., 1994.

“World War II.” Encarta. CD-ROM. Seattle: Microsoft, 2004.

Reed, William. “The Entertainment Industry.” Tennessee Tribune 25 Dec. 1996: 28. Ethnic NewsWatch. CD-ROM. Data Technologies, Feb. 1997.

Internet

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Day Month Year of Article. Name of Site/Institution/Organization affiliated with site. Date you accessed the site. http:// address.

When URLs will not fit on one line, they should be broken at slashes, when possible.

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. 23 April 2006. .

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue University. 10 May 2006 .

For an individual page on a Web site, list the author (if known), followed by the information covered above for the entire Web sites. Make sure the URL points to the exact page you are referring to, or the entry or home page for a collection of pages you are referring to.

“How to Make Vegetarian Chili.” . 10 May 2006. .

E-mail or Personal Communication

Author. “Title of the message (if any)” E-mail to person’s name. Date of the message.

Also use this format for personal interviews or personal letters.

(E-mail to You)

Kunka, Andrew. “Re: Modernist Literature.” E-mail to the author. 15 Nov. 2000.

(E-mail Communication Between Two Parties, Not Including Author)

Neyhart, David. “Re: Online Tutoring.” E-mail to Joe Barbato. 1 Dec. 2000.

(Personal Interview)

Madison, John. “Re: Cyber Safety.” Personal Interview. 30 March 2006.

Images (Pictures, Photographs, Painting, Sculpture)

For works housed outside of an online home, include the artist’s name, the year the work was created, and the institution (i.e., a gallery or museum), followed by the city where it is located. Include the complete information for the site where you found the image, including the date of access.

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo del Prado, Madrid. 22 May 2006 .

If the owner of the online site for the image is different than the image’s home museum.

Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922. Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Artchive. “Klee: Twittering Machine.” 22 May 2006 .

For other images, cite as you would any other Web page, but make sure you are crediting the original creator of the image. Here is an example from , an online photo-sharing site (“brandychloe” is a username):

Brandychloe. Great Horned Owl Family. 22 May 2006 .

The above example links directly to the image. We could also provide the user’s profile URL and give the path for reaching the image.

Brandychloe. Great Horned Owl Family. 22 May 2006 . Path: Albums; birds; great horned owl family.

Atlas

“Name of Map.” Title of Atlas. Publisher, Date.

“Northeastern U.S.A.” Rand McNally World Atlas. Rand McNally, 1996.

Audio-Visual Material

Title of Item. Type of Material. Producer, Date.

Wildlife of North America. Sound filmstrip set. National Geographic Society, 1996.

Occupational Guidance

“Lawyer.” Occupational Guidance. Unit 2, Vol. X. Minneapolis, MN: Finney Co., 2004.

SIRS Digest

“Lakes in Trouble.” SIRS Digest: Pollution. SIRS, 1977.

SIRS Science

Barton, Katherine. “The temperature’s rising.” SIRS Science: Earth Science. SIRS, 1988.

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