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MLA citation
style refers to the rules and conventions established
by the Modern Language association applied to resources
used in a research paper. The use of MLA citation style
includes citation in texts that point to an alphabetical
works cited list
Citations
in texts imply the use of essential information to identify
a source and it includes the last name of the author
and page numbers parenthesized. The examples of citations
in texts are as follows:
| Author's
name in text |
Dover has expressed
this concern (118-21). |
| Author's name
in reference |
This concern has been expressed
(Dover 118-21). |
| Multiple authors
of a work |
This hypothesis (Bradley
and Rogers 7) suggested this theory (Sumner,
Reichl, and Waugh 23). |
| Two locations |
Williams alludes to this
premise (136-39, 145). |
| Two works cited |
(Burns 54, Thomas 327) |
Multivolume
works
| References to volumes and
pages |
(Wilson 2:1-18) |
| References to an entire volume
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(Henderson, vol. 3) |
| In text reference to an entire
volume |
In volume 3, Henderson suggests |
| Corporate authors |
(United Nations, Economic
Commission for Africa 51-63) |
Works with no author
When a work has no author, use the work's title
or a shortened version of the title when citing
it in text:
| |
as stated by the presidential
commission (Report 4). |
| Online source with numbered
paragraphs |
(Fox, pars. 4-5) |
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The works cited page contains the list of all sources
arranged in alphabetical order and containing all publishing
information, including the author(s)/editor(s) name,
the complete title, edition, if indicated, place of
publication, the shortened name of publisher and date
of publication.
Examples:
One
author:
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. New York: Putnam,
1955.
Another
work, same author:
---.Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited.
New York: Knopf, 1999.
Two
authors:
Cross, Susan, and Christine Hoffman. Bruce Nauman:
Theaters of Experience. New York: Guggenheim Museum;
London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Three
authors:
Lowi, Theodore, Benjamin Ginsberg, and Steve Jackson.
Analyzing American Government: American Government,
Freedom and Power. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1994.
More
than three authors:
Gilman, Sandor, et al. Hysteria beyond Freud.
Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
Corporate
author:
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. A Guide to the
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1973.
Multivolume
work:
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Henry Steele Commager, and William
E. Leuchtenburg. The Growth of the American Republic.
2 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1980.
Article
or chapter from a book:
Nielsen, Jorgen S. "European Culture and Islam."
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Ed.
Richard C. Martin. New York: Macmillan Reference-Thomson/Gale,
2004. 1126-45.
Journal
article:
Shefter, Martin. "Institutional Conflict over Presidential
Appointments: The Case of Clarence Thomas."
PS: Political Science & Politics 25.4 (1992):
676-79.
In a journal article 25.4 reads Volume 25, issue 4,
which is followed by the date of publication and page
number.
Online
book within a scholarly project:
Frost, Robert. North of Boston.1915.Project Bartleby.
Ed. Steven van Leeuwen.1999. 29 October 1999 <http://www.bartleby.com/118/index.html>.
Article
from an online encyclopedia:
"Einstein, Albert."Encyclopaedia Britannica
Online. 1999. Encyclopedia Britannica. 27 April
2004 <http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=108494&sctn=1>.
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