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CITING SOURCES
Based on the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers -- 7th ed.
Work cited lists are alphabetized by the first element in each
entry, i.e. Author, Title, etc. Ignore A, An, or The when you alphabetize
the entry.
For a printable version of this sheet
For a CITING SOURCES HELPER SHEET
For a sheet on CITING LIBRARY DATABASES
BOOK BY SINGLE AUTHOR
Horowitz, Anthony. Necropolis. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009.
Print.
BOOK BY TWO OR MORE AUTHORS
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of
Research. 2nd ed. Chicago:
U of Chicago P, 2003. Print.
TWO BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. New York: Spark Pub., 2003. Print.
---. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. New York: New American Library, 1998. Print.
BOOK WITH AN EDITOR
Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterpieces of World Literature. New York:
Harper Collins Publishers, 1989. Print.
BOOK BY CORPORATE AUTHOR
American Medical Association. American Medical Association Family Medical
Guide. Fourth ed. New Jersey:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. Print.
A WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY
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. Print.
FOR NCLC, TCLC, CLC
Holladay, Hillary. “Narrative Space in Ann Petty’s Country Place.” Xavier
Review 16.1 (1996): 21-35. Rpt. In
Twentieth-Century Literacy Criticism. Ed.
Linda Pavloski and Scott Darga.
Vol. 112. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 356-62. Print.
ONE VOLUME OF A MULTI-VOLUME WORK
Cosmos, Tiger, and Bruce Edward Walker. “Coldplay.” Contemporary
Musicians. Ed. Andrea Henderson et al. Vol. 62. Detroit: Gale,
2008. 59-61. Print. 63 vols.
AN ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK
(Encyclopedia, Dictionary, etc.)“Intelligence.” Def. 4b. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 11th ed. 2005. Print.
Allen, Anita L. “Privacy in Health Care.” Encyclopedia of Bioethics.
Ed. Stephen G. Post. 3rd ed. Vol. 4.
New York: Macmillan-Thomson, 2004. Print.
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
New York State Commission on the Adirondacks in the
Twenty First Century. The Adirondack Park in the Twenty-First Century.
Albany: State of New
York, 1990. Print.
United States. Cong. House. Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence. Al-Qaeda: The Many Faces of an Islamist Extremist
Threat. 109th Cong., 2nd sess. S. Res. 61. Washington:
GPO, 2006. Print.
AN ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL
Albada, Kelly F. “The Public and Private Dialogue about the American Family
on Television.” Journal of Communication 50.4 (2000): 79-110. Print.
MAGAZINES
Layden, Tim. “Did That Really Happen?” Sports Illustrated 11 May 2009:
57-59. Print
NEWSPAPERS
McKay, Peter A. “Stocks Feel the Dollar’s Weight.” Wall Street Journal
4 Dec. 2006: C1+. Print.
A FILM OR VIDEO RECORDING (VHS, DVD)
It's a Wonderful Life
Paine, Chris. Who Killed the Electric Car? Culver City: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006. DVD.
A DIGITAL FILE
Hudson, Jennifer, perf. “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.” Dreamgirls:
Music from the Motion Picture.
A TELEVISION OR RADIO BROADCAST
“The Phantom of Corleone.” Narr. Steve Kroft. Sixty Minutes. CBS. WCBS,
New York, 10 Dec. 2006. Television.
AN INTERVIEW
Wiesel, Elie. Interview by Ted Koppel. Nightline. ABC. WABC, New York.
18 Apr. 2002. Television.
Pei, I. M. Personal Interview. 22 July 1993.
Reed, Ishmael. Telephone interview. 10 Dec. 2007.
A PERIODICAL PUBLICATION IN AN ONLINE DATABASE (LexisNexis, JSTOR…)
Richardson, Lynda. “Minority Students Languish in Special Education System.”
New York Times 6 Apr. 1994, late ed.: A1+.
Pt. 1 of a series, A Class
Apart: Special Education in New York City. LexisNexis. Web. 15 Aug. 2007.
Tolson, Nancy. “Making Books Available: The Role of Early Libraries,
Librarians, and Booksellers in the Promotion of African American
Children’s
Literature.” African American Review 32.1 (1998): 9-16. JSTOR.
Web. 5 June 2008.
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MATERIALS FROM AN INTERNET SITE
“Maplewood, New Jersey.” Map. Google Maps. Google, 15 May 2008. Web.
15 May 2008.
Quade, Alex. “Elite Team Rescues Troops behind Enemy Lines.” CNN.com. Cable News Network, 19 Mar. 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.
“Utah Mine Rescue Funeral.” CNN.com. Cable News Network, 21 Aug. 2007. Web. 21 Aug. 2007.
Bierce, Ambrose. “Academy.” The Devil’s Dictionary. The Collected Works of
Ambrose Bierce. Vol. 7. New York: Neale,
1911. n. pag. The Ambrose Bierce
Project. Web. 15 May 2008.
You should include a URL as supplementary information only when the reader probably cannot locate the source without it or when your instructor requires it. If you present a URL, give it immediately following the date of access, a period, and a space.
Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. Lib. Of Cong., 28 Sept. 2007. Web. 20 Nov. 2007. <
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/>.AN E-MAIL MESSAGE
Boyle, Anthony T. “Re: Utopia.” Message to Daniel J. Cahill. 21 June 1997.
E-mail.
AN ONLINE IMAGE
Suzuki, Lea. "Mick Jaggar." Online Image. SFGate.com.13 May 2009.
Web. 22 May 2009. <http://www.sfgate.com>.
AN ONLINE VIDEO
“President
Barack Obama 2009 Inauguration and Address.” YouTube. 20 Jan. 2009. Web.
21 June 2009.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnygQ02aW4>.
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