MLA 8th Edition Formatting and Style Guide
MLA 8th Edition Formatting and Style Guide
MLA 8th Edition Formatting and Style Guide
MLA regulates:
• document format
• in-text citations
• works-cited list
MLA Update 2016
• In-text citations
• Formatting quotations
Always
Follow your instructor’s
guidelines
Format: General
Guidelines
OR
Sample Section
Headings
The authors state: “Tighter gun control in the United States erodes
Second Amendment rights” (Smith et al. 76).
A 2016 study suggests that stricter gun control in the United States will
significantly prevent accidental shootings (Strong and Ellis 23).
Other In-Text Citations 3
Lightenor has argued that computers are not useful tools for small
children (“Too Soon” 38), though he has acknowledged elsewhere that
early exposure to computer games does lead to better small motor skill
development in a child's second and third year (“Hand-Eye Development”
17).
Multiple Citations
In-text example:
Romeo and Juliet presents an opposition between two worlds: “the
world of the everyday… and the world of romance.” Although the two
lovers are part of the world of romance, their language of love
nevertheless becomes “fully responsive to the tang of actuality” (Zender
138, 141).
Other In-Text Citations 6
Works-cited entry:
“Hush.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, performance
by Sarah Michelle Gellar, season 4, episode 10, Mutant Enemy,
1999.
Other In-Text Citations 7
Examples:
Properzia Rossi tells the statue that it will be a container for her feelings:
“The bright work grows / Beneath my hand, unfolding, as a rose” (lines
31-32).
Author.
Begin the entry with the author’s last name, followed by a comma and
the rest of the name, as presented in the work. End this element with a
period.
Examples:
Title of source.
Books and websites should be in italics:
Title of container,
Examples:
“Under the Gun.” Pretty Little Liars, season 4, episode 6, ABC Family,
16 July 2013. Hulu, hulu.com/watch/511318.
Works-cited List: Other
Contributors
Other contributors,
Examples:
Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in
Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Translated by
Lydia G. Cochrane, Stanford UP, 1994.
Version,
Newcomb, Horace, editor. Television: The Critical View. 7th ed., Oxford
UP, 2007.
Examples:
Harris, Charles “Teenie.” Woman in a Paisley Shirt behind Counter in
Record Store. Teenie Harris Archive, Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, teenie.cmoa.org/interactive/index.html#date08.
Kuzui, Fran Rubel, director. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Twentieth Century
Fox, 1992.
Works-cited List:
Publication Date
Publication date,
The same source may have been published on more than one date, such
as an online version of an original source. When the source has more
than one date, use the date that is most relevant to your use of it.
Location,
Examples:
Bearden, Romare. The Train. 1975, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Works-cited List:
Optional Elements
Optional elements:
•City of publication:
Optional elements:
•URLs
•Date of access
“Under the Gun.” Pretty Little Liars, season 4, episode 6, ABC Family,
16 July 2013. Hulu, www.hulu.com/watch/511318. Accessed 23
July 2013.
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