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Documenting Sources in MLA Style

MLA Documentation Style is a citation method used primarily in the humanities to help readers locate sources. It includes guidelines for citing various types of sources, such as books, articles, and websites, with specific formats provided for each. The document emphasizes the importance of consistency and accuracy in citations, along with a structured Works Cited page.

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Documenting Sources in MLA Style

MLA Documentation Style is a citation method used primarily in the humanities to help readers locate sources. It includes guidelines for citing various types of sources, such as books, articles, and websites, with specific formats provided for each. The document emphasizes the importance of consistency and accuracy in citations, along with a structured Works Cited page.

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MLA DOCUMENTATION STYLE

MLA Documentation Style is a method for listing the sources you use so your readers can
identify and find those sources. It is commonly used in the humanities, including art, English,
and philosophy. Use the examples below as templates to create citations to your sources.

CITING SOURCES IN THE BODY OF YOUR PAPER


Cite works within your paper with parenthetical author-page number references (Foster 290).
These references will correspond to sources listed alphabetically by author at the end of your
paper in a Works Cited page. Sources without an author are listed by their title instead.

CITING BOOKS [PAGES 148-181*]


Author. Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication. Publication medium.
King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. New York: Pocket, 2002. Print.

CITING ARTICLES FROM PRINT JOURNALS [PAGE 137*]


Author. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume.issue (Year of Publication): Page numbers.
Publication medium.
Gieryn, Thomas F. “Laboratory Design for Post-Fordist Science.” Isis 99.4 (2008): 796-802.
Print.

CITING ARTICLES FROM PRINT NEWSPAPERS [PAGE 141*]


Author. “Title of Article.” Title of Newspaper Date of Article, edition: Page numbers.
Publication medium.
Greenhouse, Steven. “Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions.” New York Times 17
July 2009, late ed.: A1+. Print.

CITING ARTICLES FROM ELECTRONIC DATABASES [PAGES 192-3*]


Author. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume.issue (Year of Publication): Page numbers.
Name of Database. Publication medium. Date of Access.
• America: History & Life
Furgurson, Ernest B. “The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln.” American Scholar 78.2
(2009): 42-51. America: History & Life. Web. 21 July 2009.

• JSTOR
Franklin, Benjamin. “Physical and Meteorological Observations, Conjectures, and
Suppositions.” Philosophical Transactions 55 (1765): 182-192. JSTOR. Web. 21 July
2009.

• Humanities International Complete


Reeves, Eric. “Darfur and International Justice.” Dissent 56.3 (2009): 13-18. Humanities
International Complete. Web. 17 July 2009.

* Source: Seventh Edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2009). MLA, RF 7/09
MLA DOCUMENTATION STYLE
CITING WEB SITES [PAGES 181-93*]
MLA style is flexible, and sometimes you must improvise to record features not anticipated by
the rules. Be consistent in your work. You should consider downloading or printing the material
you use during your research, so you can verify it if it is inaccessible later.

1. Name of the author, compiler, director, editor, narrator, performer, or translator of the work.
2. Title of the work (italicized if the work is independent; in roman type and quotation marks if
the work is part of a larger work); untitled works may be identified by a genre label (e.g., Home
page, Introduction).
3. Title of the overall Web site (italicized), if distinct from item 2.
4. Version or edition used.
5. Publisher or sponsor of the site; if not available, use N.p.
6. Date of publication (day, month, and year, as available); if nothing is available, use n.d.
7. If appropriate, inclusive page numbers; use n. pag. if page numbers are not available.
8. Medium of publication (Web).
9. Date of access (day, month, and year).
10. 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 include a URL, give it
immediately following the date of access and enclose it in angle brackets < >. If a URL must be
divided between two lines, break it only after the double slashes or a single slash; do not
introduce a hyphen - at the break or allow your word processing program to. If possible, give the
complete address, including http, for the specific work you are citing.
11. If you cannot find some of this information, cite what is available.

Works Only on the Web


“Maplewood, New Jersey.” Map. Google Maps. Google, 15 May 2008. Web. 15 May 2008.
“The Scientists Speak.” Editorial. New York Times. New York Times, 20 Nov. 2007. Web. 15
May 2008.
Tyre, Peg. “Standardized Tests in College?” Newsweek. Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.
“Utah Mine Rescue Funeral.” CNN.com. Cable News Network, 21 Aug. 2007. Web. 21 Aug. 2007.

Works on the Web, Cited with Print Publication Data


Child, L. Maria, ed. The Freedmen’s Book. Boston, 1866. Google Book Search. Web. 15 May 2008.
United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Law
Enforcement and Juvenile Crime. By Howard N. Snyder. 2001. National Criminal
Justice Reference Service. Web. 15 May 2008.

Works on the Web, Cited with Publication Data for A Medium Besides Print
The Great Train Robbery. Dir. Edward Porter. Thomas Edison, 1903. Internet Archive. Web. 5
June 2008.
Lange, Dorothea. The Migrant Mother. 1936. Prints and Photographs Div., Lib. of Cong.
Dorothea Lange: Photographer of the People. Web. 9 May 2007.

A Scholarly Journal Article


Shehan, Constance L., and Amanda B. Moras. “Deconstructing Laundry: Gendered
Technologies and the Reluctant Redesign of Household Labor.” Michigan Family Review
11 (2006): n. pag. Web. 8 Nov. 2007.

* Source: Seventh Edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2009). MLA, RF 7/09

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