Citations in MLA Style

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MLA CITATION STYLE

Corrine Syster, MLIS

Reference & Instruction Librarian

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GENERAL PAGE LAYOUT

1 Margins on all sides

Double Spaced ONLY

No Title Page Your Name

Instructors Name

Course Title

Date

Centered, Unformatted Title

Aligned Left First line of paragraphs indented by

Header


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THINGSTHATARENOTDEFAULTIN WORD

1 Margins on all sides

Double Spaced ONLY

No Title Page Your Name

Instructors Name

Course Title

Date

Centered, Unformatted Title

Aligned Left First line of paragraphs indented by

Header


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1 MARGINS


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DOUBLE SPACING ONLY


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SINCETHERESNOTITLEPAGE


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INDENT PARAGRAPHS


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HEADER PAGE NUMBER


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HEADERNAME

Just type it!


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WHERETOPUTCITATIONS

In-Text Citation

Appears within the text of the paper

Brief citation of quotes & paraphrases.

Points to specific sources in Works Cited list

Must match the works cited list

Works Cited list

Appears at the end

Lists all sources used

Full MLA citation


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IN-TEXT CITATIONS GENERAL RULES

Enclosed in parentheses ( )

Comes BEFORE the period

Generally Authors Last Name and page number

If named in signal phrase, leave out name No comma

No p. pg. pgs. or page


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IN-TEXT CITATIONS AUTHOR VARIATIONS

Two = (Crosby and Malkin 87)

Three = (Crosby, Malkin, and Fleury 87)

Four or More = (Crosby et al. 87)

Same Last Name = (S. Crosby 87) Book with No Author = (Penguins 87)

Article/Website with No Author = (Penguins 87)

Indirect Source = (qtd. in S. Crosby 87)


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IN-TEXT CITATIONS SOURCE VARIATIONS

Encyclopedia or Dictionary = (Penguins)

Multivolume Work = (Letang 1: 28)

Multiple Works = (Malkin 71; Letang 28; Crosby 87)

Anthology = (Crosby 71) Author of article, NOT the editor of the book

Legal Sources Well-known Source = (US Const., art. 1, sec. 2)

Legislative Acts = (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)

Court Cases = (Roe v. Wade)


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IN-TEXT CITATION EXAMPLES

Peck argues that video games are a better alternative to livewarfare training (12).

As it stands, the Nintendo Generation will learn to fight byplaying the Pentagon's equivalent of Halo 3 (Peck 12).

Research shows that students are more likely to suffer fromnarcolepsy during library instruction sessions (Library Facts).


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WORKS CITED CHARACTERISTICS

Starts on a New Page (Ctrl+ Enter)

Labeled as Works Cited (centered)

Complete citation

Listed Alphabetically Double Spaced

Hanging Indent


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COMMON CITATIONS WHERE & HOW

Accessed Physically in Print

Book

Newspaper Article

Magazine Article

Scholarly Journal Article

Accessed Online, Database or Web

Website

Newspaper Article

Magazine Article

Scholarly Journal Article


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BOOK TITLE PAGE


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BOOK

LastName, FirstName. Title: Subtitle. Publication City:

Publisher, Year Published. Medium of Publication.

Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses

Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control

Creativity. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. Print.


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NEWSPAPER IN PRINT


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MAGAZINE IN PRINT

20


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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE IN PRINT

LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Periodical Name Day

Month Year: Page Range. Medium.

Boyle, Anna Girl, 9, Raises Awareness at Birthday Party

Griffin Daily News 18 Dec. 2005: 1A+. Print.

Moritz, Brady Automation Infatuation. Processing Feb. 2006:

20. Print


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WEBSITES PRINT PREVIEW


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WEBSITES

LastName, FirstName. Title of Work. Name of Web Site. Day

Month Year published/updated. Publisher/Sponsor.

Medium. Day Month Year accessed.

Mayo Clinic Staff. Scoliosis MayoClinic.com.

MayoClinic.com 14 Dec. 2007. Mayo Foundation for Medical

Education and Research. Web. 16 July 2008.


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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE DATABASE


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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE DATABASE

LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Periodical Day Month

Year: Page-Range. Database Name. Medium. Date

accessed.

Hamilton, Anita and Yuki Oda. Wizard of Wii. Time 2

June 2008: 42-43.Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar.

2009.


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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE VIA WWW


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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE VIA WWW

LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Newspaper Title Day Month Year

[Published]. Medium. Day Month Year [Accessed].

Miller, Dan. Help is Here: College Offers Tuition-Free Courses for Laid-Off

Workers Patriot-News [Harrisburg, PA] 24 March 2009. Web. 25 March

2009.


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NOTEABOUT URLS

URLs are NOT required

BUT if your professor says to do it, DO IT!!!

Search it in Google

Is it the first result?

Is it obvious? If not you might want to include the URL

If youre including the url

After Access Date

New line after / only Full URL

Its ok to use shorteners (ex. Bit.ly)


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WORKS CITED

Boyle, Anna Girl, 9, Raises Awareness at Birthday Party The Griffin Daily News. 18

Dec. 2005: 1A+. Print.

Hamilton, Anita and Yuki Oda. Wizard of Wii. Time 2 June 2008: 42-43.Academic

Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2009.

Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock

Down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. Print.

Mayo Clinic Staff. Scoliosis.MayoClinic.com 14 Dec. 2007. Mayo Foundation for

Medical Education and Research. Web. 16 July 2008.

Moritz, Brady Automation Infatuation. Processing. Feb. 2006: 20. Print.


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