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Mla Guidelines

This document provides guidelines for citing sources in MLA citation style, including formats for in-text citations and bibliographic entries for various types of sources such as books, articles, websites, and more. Specific examples are given for citing single-author books, multi-author books, works with no author, articles in anthologies and journals, newspaper and magazine articles, films, interviews, and electronic sources. Instructions are also given for formatting papers in MLA style.

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Mla Guidelines

This document provides guidelines for citing sources in MLA citation style, including formats for in-text citations and bibliographic entries for various types of sources such as books, articles, websites, and more. Specific examples are given for citing single-author books, multi-author books, works with no author, articles in anthologies and journals, newspaper and magazine articles, films, interviews, and electronic sources. Instructions are also given for formatting papers in MLA style.

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Guidelines for MLA Citation Style (Based on the MLA Handbook, 5th Edition)

Type of Entry In-Text Citation Works Cited Form (End-of-Text Bibliography)


Form

Book. Single Author (Keyser 75). Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox. Whispers in the Dark: The
Fiction of Louisa May Alcott. Knoxville: U of
Tennessee P, 1993.

Book. Two or Three (Blocker, Plummer, Blocker, Clyde E., Robert H. Plummer, and Richard C.
Authors and Richardson 52-57). Richardson, Jr. The Two-Year College: A Social
Synthesis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1965.
NOTE: If there are more than three authors, name only
the first and add et al. or name each author.

No Author Given (A Handbook of Korea A Handbook of Korea. 4th ed. Seoul: Korean Overseas
241-47). Information Service, Ministry of Culture and
Information, 1982.

Author's Work in an (Auerbach 10). Auerbach, Nina. "Jane Austen and Romantic
Anthology Imprisonment." Jane Austen in a Social Context. Ed.
David Monaghan. Totowa, NJ: Barnes, 1981. 9-27.

A Multivolume Work (Daiches 2: 538-39). Daiches, David. A Critical History of English


Literature. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York: Ronald, 1970.

Edition Other Than the (Chaucer 545). Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed.
First F.N. Robinson. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1957.

A Republished Book (Doctorow 209-12). Doctorow, E.L. Welcome to Hard Times. 1960. New
York: Bantam, 1976.

A Book in a Series (Reiman 113). Reiman, Donald H. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Updated ed.
Twayne's English Authors Series. 81. Boston: Twayne,
1989.

An Article in a ("Wasatch Range"). "Wasatch Range." Encyclopedia Americana. 1993 ed.


"Familiar" Reference
Book

Article in a Journal (Spear 94). Spear, Karen. "Building Cognitive Skills in Basic
Writers." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 9
(1983): 91-98.

Article from a Weekly (Gleick 33). Gleick, Elizabeth. "Sex, Betrayal and Murder." Time 17
or Biweekly Magazine July 1995: 32-33+.

Article from a (Snyder 68). Snyder, Mark. "Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes." Psychology


Monthly or Bimonthly Today July 1982: 60-68.
Magazine
Article from a (Jereski C1). Jereski, Laura. "Entertainment Stocks: Is a Boffo
Newspaper Performance Over?" Wall Street Journal 1 Aug. 1995,
eastern ed.: C1+.

Film Review (Harrington D1). Harrington, Richard. "Under Siege 2: Railroad


Ruckus." Rev. of Under Siege 2. Washington Post 15
July 1995: D1+.

Interview (Morganis). Morganis, Nancy. Telephone Interview. 8 Aug. 1995.

Television program ("Debate on Welfare "Debate on Welfare Reform." Face the Nation. CBS. 6
Reform"). Aug. 1995.

Electronic Source: ("Kosovo"). "Kosovo." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 13 Sept.


Document Within 1999
Online Scholarly <http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=47187&sctn=1>.
Project

Electronic Source: (Maxwell Library Maxwell Library Home Page. 3 Aug. 1999. Clement C.
Personal or Home Page). Maxwell Library,
Professional Site Bridgewater State College. 13 Sept. 1999
<http://www.bridgew.edu/Library>.

Electronic Source: (Hixon 2). Hixon, Allen L. "Preventing Street Gang Violence."
Article in Online American Family Physician 59.8 (April 1999): 4 pp. 3
Periodical Aug 1999
<http://www.epnet.com/ehost/login.html>

N.B. If you are listing in your end-of-text bibliography more than one title by the same author, use a
comma and include a shortened title for the work you are quoting/mentioning in order to distinguish it
from the other works. E.g., (Frye, Anatomy 214).

B. EDITING
1. edited in Times New Roman size 12 and double-spaced (1.5 lines) justified, first line indented
1.25 cm.
2. Quotations exceeding 2 lines should be typed in a paragraph indented 1.7 cm, justified, Times
New Roman 11, single spaced.
3. Papers should be written in concordance with the current MLA Citation Style, using in-text
citation and the WORKS CITED system:
a. After a quote or mention of a source in the body of your paper, indicate the source in
brackets, using the format specified above as the In-Text Citation form.
b. At the end of the paper, list all the works used, in alphabetical order, under the title
Works Cited, using the format specified above as the Works Cited Form.
4. Endnotes containing supplementary information, more detailed discussions or by-the-way remarks may
be included, using Font Size 11. Please do not use endnotes for editorial data (citing information); use
only in-text citations. Group endnotes at the end of the paper (by chapters and restart numbering with each
new chapter) and include them before your Works Cited page(s).

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