Library Handout on MLA Citation (Word Document)
Citing Sources Helper Sheet
(Word Document)
Citing Library Subscription
Databases (Word Document)
Citing Government Information Sources (MLA) from the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
ONE VOLUME OF A MULTI-VOLUME WORK
AN ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK
AN ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL WITH CONTINUOUS PAGINATION
AN ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL THAT PAGES EACH ISSUE SEPARATELY
A FILM OR VIDEO RECORDING (VHS, DVD)
A PERSONAL INTERVIEW (in person, telephone, email)
ONLINE LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION DATABASE (EBSCO, Electric Library, World Book, etc.)
A DOCUMENT FROM AN INTERNET SITE
a Source from AP Multimedia Archive
Citing Electronic Sources from the Library of Congress's American Memory
Collection
Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New
York: Farrar, 2002.
---, trans. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. New York: Norton, 1967.
Lopate, Phillip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994.
American Medical Association. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine. Ed. Charles B. Clayman. New York: Random, 1989.
More, Hannah. “The Black Slave Trade: A Poem.” British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Paula R. Feldman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. 472-82.
FOR
NCLC, TCLC, CLC:
Beach, Joseph Warren. “John
Steinbeck: Art and Propaganda.” American Fiction: 1920-1940 Macmillan,
1941. 327-47. Rpt. in Contemporary Literacy Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz.
Vol. 59. Detroit: Gale, 1990. 112-16.
Holladay, Hillary. “Narrative Space in Ann Petty’s Country Place.” Xavier Review 16 (1996): 21-35. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literacy Criticism. Ed. Linda Pavloski. Vol 112. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 356-62.
ONE VOLUME OF A MULTI-VOLUME WORK:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. “Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl.” 1863. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter et al. 4th ed. Vol. 1. Boston: Houghton, 2002. 2530-38. 2 vols.
AN ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK (Dictionary, Encyclopedia, etc.)
“Azimuthal Equidistant Projection.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 1993.
“Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed.
"China". World Almanac 2002. World Almanac, Inc., 2001. pp 864-865.
Le Patourel, John. “Normans and Normandy.” Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph R. Strayer. 13 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 1987.
New York State. Committee on State Prisons. Investigation of the New York State Prisons.1883. New York: Arno, 1974.
United States. U.S. Census Bureau. Poverty in the United States: 1998. Sept. 1999. 12 Nov.2003 <http://www. census.gov/prod/99pubs/p60-207.pdf>.
United States. U.S. Census Bureau. "Section 5. Law Enforcement, Courts, and Prison." Statistical Abstract of the United States 2002. 13 Nov.2004 <http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-02.html>.
United States. Justice Department, National Institute on Justice. Evaluation of Pepper Spray Use. March 1997. Sudoc Number : J 32.10:C 83. SIRS Knowledge Source. SIRS. Shenendehowa High School Lib., Clifton Park, NY. 16 Mar. 2004. <http://www.sks26.sirs.com >.
Electronic Freedom of Information Act
Amendments of 1996. Pub. L.
104-418. 2 Oct. 1996. Stat. 3048.
Utah v. Evans. No. 01-714. Supreme Ct. of the US. 20 June 2002.
AN ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL WITH CONTINUOUS PAGINATION
Trumpener, Katie. “Memories Carved in Granite: Great War Memorials and Everyday Life.” PMLA 115 (2000): 1093-1096.
AN ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL THAT PAGES EACH ISSUE SEPARATELY
Albada, Kelly F. “The Public and Private Dialogue about the American Family on Television.” Journal of Communication 50.4 (2000): 79-110.
Metha, Pratap Bhanu. “Exploding Myths.” New Republic 6 June 1998: 17-19.
Jeromack, Paul. “A David of the Art World Does Goliath a Favor.” New York Times 13 July 2002, late ed.: B7+.
A FILM OR VIDEO RECORDING (VHS, DVD):
It's a Wonderful Life.
Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas
Mitchell. RKO, 1946.
Mifune, Toshiro, perf. Rashomon. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. 1950.
DVD. Home Vision, 2001.
A TELEVISION OR RADIO PROGRAM:
”Yes… but is it Art?” Narr. Morley Safer. Sixty Minutes. CBS. WRGB, Albany NY. 19 Sept. 1999.
A PERSONAL INTERVIEW (in person, telephone, email)
Poussaint, Alvin F. Telephone interview. 10 Dec.
2003
ONLINE LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION DATABASE (EBSCO, Electric Library, World Book, etc.)
McMichael, Anthony J. “Population, Environment,
Disease, and Survival.” Lancet 30 Mar. 2002: 1145-48. Lexis-Nexis
Scholastic. Lexis-Nexis. Shenendehowa
High School Lib., Clifton Park, NY. 3 April
2004 <http://web.lexis-nexis.com/>.
Clogg, Richard. “Greece.”
Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 2004. Encyclopedia Britannica. Shenendehowa
High School Lib., Clifton Park, NY. 2 May 2004 <http://search.eb.com>.
► also refer to the extended Library Subscription Database MLA Guide on the back of the remote password handout
A DOCUMENT FROM AN INTERNET SITE:
“City Profile: San Francisco.” CNN.com. 2004. Cable News Network. 14 May
2004
<http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/atevo/city/SanFrancisco/intro.html>.
“Selected Seventeenth-Century Events.” Romantic Chronology. Ed. Laura
Mandell and Alan Liu. 1999.
U of California, Santa Barbara. 22
Jun 2003 <http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/>.
Jane
Austen Information Page. Ed. Henry
Churchyard. 6 Sept. 2000. 15 June 2002
<http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html>.
AN
E-MAIL COMMUNICATION
Boyle,
Anthony T. “Re: Utopia.” E-mail to Daniel J. Cahill. 21 May 2004.
Citing a Source from AP Multimedia Archive
"Abraham Lincoln, General McClellan and his staff at Antietam, Maryland (1862)". Accunet /AP Multimedia Archive. Shenendehowa High School Lib., Clifton Park, NY. 3 April 2004 <http://ap.accuweather.com>
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