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MLA
2009 7th ed. WORKS CITED PAGE
According to MLA style, you must have a
Works Cited page at the end of your research paper. All entries in
the Works Cited page must correspond to the works cited in your main
text.
Basic Rules
Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of
your research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins
and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper.
Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works
Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works
Cited at the top of the page.
Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between
entries.
Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations five
spaces so that you create a hanging indent.
List page numbers of sources efficiently, when needed. If
you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225
through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as
225-50.
Additional Basic Rules New to MLA 2009
For every entry, you must determine the Medium of
Publication. Most entries will likely be listed as Print or Web
sources, but other possibilities may include Film, CD-ROM, or
DVD.
Writers are no longer required to provide URLs for Web
entries. However, if
your instructor or publisher insists on them, include them in
angle brackets after the entry and end with a period. For long
URLs, break lines only at slashes.
If you're citing an article or a publication that was
originally issued in print form but that you retrieved from an
online database, you should type the online database name in
italics. You do not need to provide subscription information in
addition to the database name.
Capitalization and Punctuation
Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc,
but do not capitalize articles, short prepositions, or
conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title or
subtitle: Gone with the Wind, The Art of War, There Is
Nothing Left to Lose.
New to MLA 2009:
Use italics (instead of underlining) for titles of larger works
(books, magazines) and quotation marks for titles of shorter
works (poems, articles)
Listing Author Names
Entries are listed by author name (or, for
entire edited collections, editor names). Author names are written
last name first; middle names or middle initials follow the first
name:
Burke, Kenneth
Levy,
David M.
Wallace, David Foster
Do not list titles (Dr., Sir, Saint,
etc.) or degrees (PhD, MA, DDS, etc.) with names. A book listing an
author named "John Bigbrain, PhD" appears simply as "Bigbrain,
John"; do, however, include suffixes like "Jr." or "II." Putting it
all together, a work by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be cited
as "King, Martin Luther, Jr.," with the suffix following the first
or middle name and a comma.
Basic Format
The first-give author’s name or a book
with a single author's name appears in last name, first name format.
The basic form for a book citation is:
Last name, First name. Title of Book.
Place of Publication:
Name
of Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of
Publication.
Book with One Author
Gerick, James. Chaos: Making a New
Science. New York:
Penguin,
1987. Print.
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird
House. Denver: MacMurray,
1999.
Print.
Book with More Than One Author
The first given name appears in last name,
first name format; subsequent author names appear in first name last
name format.
Gillespie, Paula., and Neal Lerner. The
Allyn and Bacon
Guide to Peer
Tutoring. Boston: Allyn. 2000. Print.
If there are more than three authors, you
may choose to list only the first author followed by the phrase et
al. (Latin for "and others") in place of the subsequent authors'
names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their
names appear on the title page. (Note that there is a period after
"al" in "et al." Also note that there is never a period after the
"et" in "et al.").
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing
New Media: Theory and
Applications for Expanding the Teaching of
Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.
OR
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan
Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L.
Selfe, and Geoffrey
Sirc. Writing New Media: Theory and
Applications for
Expanding the teaching of Composition.
Logan, UT: Utah
UP, 2004. Print.
NOTE: UT: the state,(Utah)is identified
because the city of publication, Logan, is not an easily
identifiable city. UP, is an abbreviation for University Press.
Two or More Books by the Same Author
List works alphabetically by title.
(Remember to ignore articles like A, An, and The.) Provide the
author’s name in last name, first name format for the first entry
only. For each subsequent entry by the same author, use three
hyphens and a period.
Palmer, William J. Dickens and New
Historicism. New York:
St. Martin's, 1997. Print.
---. The Films of the Eighties: A
Social History.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP. 1993. Print.
Book by a Corporate Author or Organization
A corporate author may include a
commission, a committee, or a group that does not identify
individual members on the title page. List the names of corporate
authors in the place where an author’s name typically appears at the
beginning of the entry.
American Allergy Association. Allergies
in Children. New York: Random,
1998. Print.
Book with No Author
List by title of the book. Incorporate
these entries alphabetically just as you would with works that
include an author name. For example, the following entry might
appear between entries of works written by Dean, Shaun and Forsythe,
Jonathan.
Encyclopedia of
Indiana. New York: Somerset, 1993.
Print.
Remember that for an in-text
(parenthetical) citation of a book with no author, provide the name
of the work in the signal phrase and the page number in parentheses.
You may also use a shortened version of the title of the book
accompanied by the page number. For more information see In-text
Citations for Print Sources with No Known Author section of In-text
Citations: The Basics, which you can link to at the bottom of this
page.
A Translated Book
Cite as you would any other book. Add
"Trans."—the abbreviation for translated by—and follow with the
name(s) of the translator(s).
Foucault, Michel. Madness and
Civilization: A history of
Insanity in the Age of Reason. Trans. Richard
Howard. New York: Vintage-Random House, 1988. Print.
Republished Book
Books may be republished due to popularity
without becoming a new edition. New editions are typically revisions
of the original work. For books that originally appeared at an
earlier date and that have been republished at a later one, insert
the original publication date before the publication information.
For books that are new editions (i.e. different from the first or
other editions of the book), see An Edition of a Book below.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble. 1990.
New York: Routledge, 1999. Print.
Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine.
1984. New York:
Perennial-Harper, 1993. Print.
An Edition of a Book
There are two types of editions in book
publishing: a book that has been published more than once in
different editions and a book that is prepared by someone other than
the author (typically an editor).
A Subsequent Edition
Cite the book as you normally would, but
add the number of the edition after the title.
Crowley, Sharon. and Debra Hawhee.
Ancient Rhetorics for
Contemporary Students. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson/Longman,
2004. Print.
A Work Prepared by an Editor
Cite the book as you normally would, but
add the editor after the title.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed.
Margaret Smith.
Oxford UP, 1998. Print.
Anthology or Collection (e.g. Collection
of Essays)
To cite the entire anthology or
collection, list by editor(s) followed by a comma and "ed." or, for
multiple editors, "eds" (for edited by). This sort of entry is
somewhat rare. If you are citing a particular piece within an
anthology or collection (more common), see A Work in an Anthology,
Reference, or Collection below.
Hill, Charles A., and Marguerite Helmers,
eds. Defining Visual Rhetorics.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Print.
Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison:
Critical and Theoretical
Approaches. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Print.
A Work in an Anthology, Reference, or
Collection
Works may include an essay in an edited
collection or anthology, or a chapter of a book. The basic form is
for this sort of citation is as follows:
Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay."
Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of
Publication.
Some examples:
Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging
Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide:
Helping Writers One on One. Ed. Ben Rafoth.
Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann, 2000. 24-34. Print.
Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design
Education as a Liberal Art: Design and
Knowledge in the University and the 'Real World.'" The
Education of a Graphic Designer. Ed. Steven Heller. New York:
Allworth Press, 1998. 13-24. Print.
Note on Cross-referencing Several Items
from One Anthology: If you cite more than one essay from the same
edited collection, MLA indicates you may cross-reference
within your works cited list in order to avoid writing out the
publishing information for each separate essay. You should consider
this option if you have several references from a single text. To do
so, include a separate entry for the entire collection listed by the
editor's name as below:
Rose, Shirley K., and Irwin Weiser, eds.
The Writing Program
Administrator as Researcher. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann,
1999. Print.
Then, for each individual essay from the
collection, list the author's name in last name, first name format,
the title of the essay, the editor's last name, and the page range:
L' Eplattenier, Barbara. "Finding
Ourselves in the Past: An Argument for
Historical Work on WPAs."
Rose and Weiser 131-40. Print.
Peeples,
Tim. "'Seeing' the WPA With/Through Postmodern
Mapping." Rose and Weiser 153-67. Print.
Poem or Short Story Examples:
Burns, Robert. "Red, Red Rose." 100
Best-Loved Poems." Ed. Philip Smith.
New York: Dover, 1995. 26. Print.
Kincaid, Jamaica. "Girl." The Vintage
Book of Contemporary American
Short Stories. Ed. Tobias Wolff. New York: Vintage, 1994. 306-
07. Print.
If the specific literary work is part of
the an author's own collection (all of the works have the same
author), then there will be no editor to reference:
Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric."
Selected Poems. New York:
Dover, 1991. 12-19. Print.
Carter, Angela. "the Tiger's Bride."
Burning Your Boats: The
Collected Stories. New York: Penguin, 1995. 154-69.
Print.
Article in a Reference Book (e.g.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries)
For entries in encyclopedias,
dictionaries, and other reference works, cite the piece as you would
any other work in a collection but do not include the publisher
information. Also, if the reference book is organized
alphabetically, as most are, do not list the volume or the page
number of the article or item.
"Ideology." The American
Heritage Dictionary. 3rd ed. 1997. Print.
A Multivolume Work
When citing only one volume of a
multivolume work, include the volume number after the work's title,
or after the work's editor or translator.
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria.
Trans. H. E. Butler. Vol. 2. Cambridge:
Loeb-Harvard UP, 1980. Print.
When citing more than one volume of a
multivolume work, cite the total number of volumes in the work.
Also, be sure in your in-text citation to provide both the volume
number and page number(s). (See Citing Multivolume Works on the
In-Text Citations – The Basics page, which you can access by
following the appropriate link at the bottom of this page.)
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria.
Trans.
H.E. Butler. 4 vols.
Cambridge: Loeb-
Harvard UP, 1980. Print.
If the volume you are using has its own
title, cite the book without referring to the other volumes as if it
were an independent publication.
Churchill, Winston S. The Age of
Revolution. New York: 1957
Print.
An Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or
Afterword
When citing an introduction, a preface, a
forward, or an afterword, write the name of the author(s) of the
piece you are citing. Then give the name of the part being cited,
which should not be italicized or enclosed in quotation marks.
Farrell, Thomas B. Introduction. Norms
of Rhetorical Culture. By Farrell.
New Haven: Yale UP, 1993. 1-13. Print.
If the writer of the piece is different
from the author of the complete work , then write the full name
of the principal work's author after the word "By." For example, if
you were to cite Hugh Dalziel Duncan’s introduction of Kenneth
Burke’s book Permanence and Change, you would write the entry as
follows:
Duncan, Hugh Dalziel. Introduction.
Permanence and Change:
An Anatomy of Purpose. By Kenneth Burke. 1935. 3rd.
ed. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984. xiii-xliv.
Print.
Other Print/Book Sources
Certain book sources are handled in a
special way by MLA style.
The Bible
Give the name of the specific edition you
are using, any editor(s) associated with it, followed by the
publication information. Remember that your in-text (parenthetical
citation) should include the name of the specific edition of the
Bible, followed by an abbreviation of the book, the chapter and
verse(s). (See Citing the Bible on the In-Text Citations – The
Basics page, which you can access by following the appropriate link
at the bottom of this page.)
The New Jerusalem Bible. Ed. Susan
Jones. New York: Doubleday, 1985.
Print.
A Government Publication
Cite the author of the publication if the
author is identified. Otherwise, start with the name of the national
government, followed by the agency (including any subdivisions or
agencies) that serves as the organizational author. For
congressional documents, be sure to include the number of the
Congress and the session when the hearing was held or resolution
passed. US government documents are typically published by the
Government Printing Office, which MLA abbreviates as GPO.
United Sates. Cong. Senate. Committee on
Energy and Natural
Resources. Hearing on the Geopolitics of Oil. 110th
Cong., 1st sess. Washington: GPO, 2007. Print.
United States. Government Accountability
Office. Climate
Change: EPA and DOE Should Do More to Encourage
Progress Under Two Voluntary Programs. Washington:
GPO,
2006. Print.
A Pamphlet
Cite the title and publication information
for the pamphlet just as you would a book without an author.
Pamphlets and promotional materials commonly feature corporate
authors (commissions, committees, or other groups that does not
provide individual group member names). If the pamphlet you are
citing has no author, cite as directed below. If your pamphlet has
an author or a corporate author, put the name of the author (last
name, first name format) or corporate author in the place where the
author name typically appears at the beginning of the entry. (See
also Books by a Corporate Author or Organization above.)
Women's Health: Problems of the
Digestive System. Washington:
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2006.
Print.
Your Rights Under California Welfare
Programs. Sacramento, CA:
California Dept. of Social Services, 2007. Print.
Dissertations and Master's Theses
Dissertations and master's theses may be
used as sources whether published or not. Cite the work as you would
a book, but include the designation Diss. (or MA/MS thesis) followed
by the degree-granting school and the year the degree was awarded.
If the dissertation is published,
italicize the title and include the publication date. You may also
include the University Microfilms International (UMI) order number
if you choose:
Bishop, Karen Lynn. Documenting
Institutional Identity: Strategic Writing
in the IUPUI Comprehensive Campaign. Diss. Purdue University,
2002. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2004. Print.
Bile, Jeffrey. Ecology, Feminism, and a
Revised Critical Rhetoric: Toward
a Dialectical Partnership. Diss. Ohio University, 2005. Ann
Arbor:
UMI, 2006. AAT 3191701. Print.
If the work is not published, put the
title in quotation marks and end with the date the degree was
awarded:
Graban, Tarez Samra. "Towards a Feminine
Ironic: Understanding Irony
in the Oppositional Discourse of Women from the Early Modern
and Modern Periods." Diss. Purdue University, 2002. Print.
Stolley, Karl. "Towards a Conception of
Religion as a Discursive
Formation: Implications for Postmodern Composition Theory."
MA Thesis. Purdue University, 2002. Print.
MLA 2009 WORKS CITED: PERIODICALS
Periodicals (e.g. magazines, newspapers,
and scholarly journals) that appear in print require the same medium
of publication designator—Print—as books, but the MLA Style method
for citing these materials and the items required for these entries
are quite different from MLA book citations.
For more information on citing
periodicals, consult "Citing Periodical Print Publications" in the
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th edition
(sec. 5.4, 136-48), or the MLA Style Manual and Guide to
Scholarly Publishing, 3rd edition (sec. 6.5, 174-85).
Article in a Magazine
Cite by listing the article's author,
putting the title of the article in quotations marks, and
italicizing the periodical title. Follow with the date of
publication. Remember to abbreviate the month. The basic format is
as follows:
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title
of Periodical Day Month
Year: pages. Medium of publication.
Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close
Call." Time 20 Nov.
2000:
70-71. Print.
Buchman, Dana. "Special Education."
Good Housekeeping Mar.
2006.
143-48. Print.
Article in a Newspaper
Cite a newspaper article as you would a
magazine article, but note the different pagination in a newspaper.
If there is more than one edition available for that date (as in an
early and late edition of a newspaper), identify the edition
following the date (e.g., 17 May 1987, late ed.).
Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets
Country's Uninsured Patients."
Washington Post 24 May 2007 late ed.: A1. Print.
If the newspaper is a less well-known or
local publication, include the city name and state in brackets after
the title of the newspaper.
Behre, Robert. "Presidential Hopefuls Get
Final Crack at Core of S. C.
Democrats." Post and Courier [Charleston, SC] 29 Apr.
2007:
A11. Print.
Trembacki, Paul. "Brees Hopes to
Win Heisman for Team" Purdue
Exponent West Lafayette, IN 5 Dec. 2000: 20. Print.
A Review
To cite a review, include the title of the
review (if available), then the abbreviation "Rev. of" for Review of
and provide the title of the work (in italics for books, plays, and
films; in quotation marks for articles, poems, and short stories).
Finally, provide performance and/or publication information.
Review Author. "Title of Review (if there
is one)." Rev. of Performance Title, by Author/Director/Artist.
Title of Periodical day month year: page. Medium of
publication.
Seitz, Matt Zoller. "Life in the
Sprawling
Suburbs, If
You Can Call it Living." Rev.
of Radiant City,
dir. Gary Burns and Jim
Brown. New York
Times 30 May 2007 late ed.:
E1. Print.
Weiller, K. H. Rev. of Sport, Rhetoric,
and
Gender:
Historical Perspectives and Media
Representations, ed. Linda K. Fuller.
Choice Apr. 2007:
1377. Print.
An Editorial & Letter to the Editor
Cite as you would any article in a
periodical, but include the designators "Editorial" or "Letter" to
identify the type of work it is.
"Of Mines and Men." Editorial. Wall
Street
Journal east. ed.24 Oct. 2003: A14.
Print.
Hamer, John. Letter. American
Journalism Review
Dec.2006/Jan.
2007: 7. Print.
Anonymous Articles
Cite the article title first, and finish
the citation as you would any other for that kind of periodical.
"Business: Global Warming's Boom Town;
Tourism in
Greenland." The Economist 26 May 2007: 82.
Print.
"Aging: Women Expect to care for Aging
Parents but
Seldom Prepare." Women's Health Weekly 10 May
2007: 18. Print.
An Article in a Scholarly Journal
In previous years, MLA required that
researchers determine whether or not a scholarly journal employed
continuous pagination (page numbers began at page one in the first
issue of the years and page numbers took up where they left off in
subsequent ones) or non-continuous pagination (page numbers begin at
page one in every subsequent issue) in order to determine whether or
not to include issue numbers in bibliographic entries. The MLA
Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th edition (2009)
eliminates this step. Always provide issue numbers, when available.
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title
of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): pages. Medium of publication.
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting
Nationalisms:
The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta
Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in
Women's Literature 15.1
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting
Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's
Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1
(1996): 41-50. Print.
Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of
Images:
Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White
Noise." Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994): 127-53. Print.
MLA 2009 Works Cited: Electronic Sources
(Web Publications)
MLA lists electronic sources as Web
Publications. Thus, when including the medium of publication
for electronic sources, list the medium as Web.
It is always a good idea to maintain
personal copies of electronic information, when possible. It is good
practice to print or save Web pages or, better, using a program like
Adobe Acrobat, to keep your own copies for future reference. Most
Web browsers will include URL/electronic address information when
you print, which makes later reference easy. Also, you might use the
Bookmark function in your Web browser in order to return to
documents more easily.
Important Note on the Use of URLs in MLA
MLA no longer requires the use of URLs in
MLA citations. Because Web addresses are not static (i.e. they
change often) and because documents sometimes appear in multiple
places on the Web (e.g. on multiple databases), MLA explains that
most readers can find electronic sources via title or author
searches in Internet Search Engines.
For instructors or editors that still wish
to require the use of URLs , MLA suggests that the URL appear in
angle brackets after the date of access. Break URLs only after
slashes.
Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H.
Butcher. The Internet
Classics Archive. Web Atomic and
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov.
2008. <http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle.html>.
Abbreviations Commonly Used with
Electronic Sources
If publishing information is unavailable
for entries that require publication information such as publisher
(or sponsor) names and publishing dates, MLA requires the use of
special abbreviations to indicate that this information is not
available. Use n.p. to indicate that neither a publisher
nor a sponsor name has been provided. Use n.d. when the Web page
does not provide a publication date.
When an entry requires that you provide a
page but no pages are provided in the source (as in the case of an
online-only scholarly journal or a work that appears in an
online-only anthology), use the abbreviation n. pag.
Basic Style for Citations of Electronic
Sources (Including Online Databases)
Here are some common features you should
try and find before citing electronic sources in MLA style. Not
every Web page will provide all of the following information.
However, collect as much of the following information as possible
both for your citations and for your research notes:
- Author and/or editor names (if available)
- Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)
- Title of the Website, project, or book in italics. (Remember
that some Print publications have Web publications with slightly
different names. They may, for example, include the additional
information or otherwise modified information, like domain names
[e.g. .com or .net].)
- Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting
dates, volumes, or issue numbers.
- Publisher information, including the publisher name and
publishing date.
- Take note of any page numbers (if available).
- Date you accessed the material.
- URL (if required, or for your own personal reference).
Citing an Entire Web Site
It is necessary to list your date of
access because web postings are often updated, and information
available on one date may no longer be available later. Be sure to
include the complete address for the site.
Remember to use n.p. if no
publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date
is given.
Editor, author, or compiler name (if
available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of
institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or
publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of
publication. Date of access.
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites . The
Writing Lab and OWL at
Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23 April
2008.
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and
Critical Theory.
Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10 May 2006.
Course or Department Websites
Give the instructor name. Then list the
title of the course (or the school catalog designation for the
course) in italics. Give appropriate department and school names as
well, following the course title. Remember to use n.d. if not
publishing date is given.
Felluga, Dino. Survey of the
Literature of England. Purdue
U, Aug. 2006. Web. 31 May 2007.
English Department . Purdue U, 14 May
2009. Web. 20 Apr.
2009.
A Page on a Web Site
For an individual page on a Web site, list
the author or alias if known, followed by the information covered
above for entire Web sites. Remember to use n.p. if no
publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date
is given.
"How to Make Vegetarian Chili."
eHow.com. eHow, n.d. Web. 24
Feb. 2009.
An Image (Including a Painting, Sculpture,
or Photograph)
Provide the artist's name, the work of art
italicized, the date of creation, the institution and city where the
work is housed. Follow this initial entry with the name of the
Website in italics, the medium of publication, and the date of
access.
Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles
IV. 1800. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Museo National
del Prado. Web. 22 May 2006.
Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine.
1922. Museum of Modern Art,
New York. The Artchive. Web. 22
May 2006.
An Article in a Web Magazine
Provide the author name, article name in
quotation marks, title of the Web magazine in italics, publisher
name, publication date, medium of publication, and the date of
access. Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is
available and n.d. if not publishing date is given.
Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the
Living Web." A List
Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A
List Apart
Mag., 16 Aug. 2002. Web. 4 May 2009.
An Article in an Online Scholarly Journal
For all online scholarly journals, provide
the author(s) name(s), the name of the article in quotation marks,
the title of the publication in italics, all volume and issue
numbers, and the year of publication.
Article in an Online-only Scholarly
Journal
MLA requires a page range for articles
that appear in Scholarly Journals. If the journal you are citing
appears exclusively in an online format (i.e. there is no
corresponding print publication) that does not make use of page
numbers, use the abbreviation n. pag. to denote that there
is no pagination for the publication.
Dolby, Nadine. "Research in Youth Culture
and Policy: Current Conditions and Future Directions." Social
Work and Society: The International Online-Only Journal 6.2
(2008): n. pag. Web. 20 May 2009.
Article in an Online Scholarly Journal
That Also Appears in Print
Cite articles in online scholarly journals
that also appear in print as you would a scholarly journal in print,
including the page range of the article. Provide the medium of
publication that you used (in this case, Web) and the date
of access.
Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease
Outbreaks Under a
Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000):
595-600. Web. 8 Feb. 2009.
An Article from an Online Database (or
Other Electronic Subscription Service)
Cite articles from online databases (e.g.
LexisNexis, ProQuest, JSTOR, ScienceDirect) and other subscription
services just as you would print sources. Since these articles
usually come from periodicals, be sure to consult the appropriate
sections of the Works Cited: Periodicals page, which you can access
via its link at the bottom of this page. In addition to this
information, provide the title of the database italicized, the
medium of publication, and the date of access.
Note : Previous editions of the
MLA Style Manual required information about the subscribing
institution (name and location). This information is no longer
required by MLA.
Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson.
"Nature's Rotary Electromotors." Science 29 Apr. 2005:
642-44. Science Online. Web. 5 Mar. 2009.
Langhamer, Claire. "Love and Courtship in
Mid-Twentieth
-Century England." Historical Journal 50.1
(2007):
173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.
E-mail (including E-mail Interviews)
Give the author of the message, followed
by the subject line in quotation marks. State to whom to message was
sent, the date the message was sent, and the medium of publication.
Kunka, Andrew. "Re: Modernist Literature."
Message to the
author. 15 Nov. 2000. E-mail.
Neyhart, David. "Re: Online Tutoring."
Message to Joe
Barbato. 1 Dec. 2000. E-mail.
A Listserve, Discussion Group, or Blog
Posting
Cite Web postings as you would a standard
Web entry. Provide the author of the work, the title of the posting
in quotation marks, the Web site name in italics, the publisher, and
the posting date. Follow with the medium of publication and the date
of access. Include screen names as author names when author name is
not known. If both names are known, place the author’s name in
brackets. Remember if the publisher of the site is unknown, use the
abbreviation n.p.
Editor, screen name, author, or compiler
name (if available). "Posting Title." Name of Site. Version
number (if available). Name of institution/organization affiliated
with the site (sponsor or publisher). Medium of publication. Date of
access.
Salmar1515 [Sal Hernandez]. "Re: Best
Strategy: Fenced
Pastures vs. Max Number of Rooms?"
BoardGameGeek.
BoardGameGeek, 29 Sept. 2008. Web. 5 Apr. 2009.
MLA 2009 Works Cited: Other Common Sources
Several sources have multiple means for
citation, especially those that appear in varied formats: films,
DVDs, videocassettes; published and unpublished interviews,
interviews over email; published and unpublished conference
proceedings. The following section groups these sorts of citations
as well as others not covered in the print, periodical, and
electronic sources sections.
An Interview
Interviews typically fall into two
categories: print or broadcast published and unpublished (personal)
interviews, although interviews may also appear in other, similar
formats such as in email format or as a Web document.
Personal Interviews
Personal interviews refer to those
interviews that you conduct yourself. List the interview by the name
of the interviewee. Include the descriptor Personal interview and
the date of the interview.
Purdue, Pete. Personal interview. 1 Dec.
2000.
Published Interviews (Print or Broadcast)
List the interview by the name of the
interviewee. If the name of the interview is part of a larger work
like a book, a television program, or a film series, place the title
of the interview in quotation marks. Place the title of the larger
work in italics. If the interview appears as an independent title,
italicize it. Determine the medium of publication (e.g. print, Web,
DVD) and fill in the rest of the entry with the information required
by that medium. For books, include the author or editor name after
the book title.
Note: If the interview from which you
quote does not feature a title, add the descriptor Interview
(unformatted) after the interviewee’s name. You may also use the
descriptor Interview by to add the name of the interview to
the entry if it is relevant to your paper.
Gaitskill, Mary. Interview with Charles
Bock. Mississippi
Review 27.3 (1999): 129-50. Print.
Amis, Kingsley. "Mimic and Moralist."
Interviews with
Britain’s Angry Young Men. By Dale Salwak. San
Bernardino, CA: Borgo, 1984. Print.
Online-only Published Interviews
List the interview by the name of the
interviewee. If the interview has a title, place it in quotation
marks. Cite the remainder of the entry as you would other exclusive
Web content. Place the name of the Website in italics, give the
publisher name (or sponsor), the publication date, the medium of
publication (Web), and the date of access. Remember that if no
publisher name is give, insert the abbreviation n.p.
Note: If the interview from which you
quote does not feature a title, add the descriptor Interview
(unformatted) after the interviewee’s name. You may also use the
descriptor Interview by to add the name of the interview to the
entry if it is relevant to your paper.
Zinkievich, Craig. Interview by Gareth Von
Kallenbach.
Skewed & Reviewed. Skewed & Reviewed, 2009.
Web. 15
Mar. 2009.
Speeches, Lectures, or Other Oral
Presentations (including Conference Presentations)
Provide the speaker’s name. Then, give the
title of the speech (if any) in quotation marks. Follow with the
name of the meeting and organization, the location of the occasion,
and the date. Use the descriptor that appropriately expresses the
type of presentation (e.g. Address, Lecture, Reading, Keynote
speech, Guest Lecture). Remember to use the abbreviation n.p.
if the publisher is not known; use n.d. if the date is not
known.
Stein, Bob. Computers and Writing
Conference. Purdue
University. Union Club Hotel, West
Lafayette, IN. 23
May 2003. Keynote address.
Published Conference Proceedings
Cite published conference proceedings like
a book. If the date and location of the conference are not part of
the published title, add this information after the published
proceedings title. The medium of publication is Print.
Remember to use the abbreviation n.p. if the publisher is
not known; use n.d. if the date is not known.
LastName, FirstName, ed. Conference
Title that Includes Conference Date and Location. Place of
publication: Publisher, Date of Publication. Print.
LastName, FirstName, ed. Conference
Title that Does Not Include Conference Date and Location.
Conference Date, Conference Location. Place of publication:
Publisher, Date of Publication. Print.
To cite a presentation from a published
conference proceedings, begin with the presenter’s name. Place the
name of the presentation in quotation marks. Follow with publication
information for the conference proceedings.
LastName, FirstName. "Conference Paper
Title." Conference
Title that Includes Conference Date and
Location.
Ed. Conference Editor(s). Place of publication:
Publisher, Date of Publication. Print.
A Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph
Include the artist's name. Give the title
of the artwork in italics. Provide the date of composition. If the
date of composition is unknown, place the abbreviation n.d.
in place of the date. Finally, provide the name of the institution
that houses the artwork followed by the location of the institution.
Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles
IV. 1800. Museo del
Prado, Madrid.
For photographic reproductions of artwork
(e.g. images of artwork in a book), cite the bibliographic
information as above followed by the information for the source in
which the photograph appears, including page or reference numbers
(plate, figure, etc.).
Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles
IV. 1800. Museo del
Prado, Madrid. Gardener's Art
Through the Ages. 10th
ed. By Richard G. Tansey and Fred S.
Kleiner. Fort
Worth: Harcourt Brace. 939. Print.
For artwork in an online format, consult
"An Image (Including a Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph)" by
following the link Works Cited: Electronic Sources at the bottom of
this page.
Films or Movies
List films (in theaters or not yet on DVD
or video) by their title. Include the name of the director, the film
studio or distributor, and the release year. If relevant, list
performer names after the director’s name. Use the abbreviation perf.
to head the list. List film as the medium of publication. To cite a
DVD or other video recording, see "Recorded Films and Movies" below.
The Usual Suspects . Dir. Bryan
Singer. Perf. Kevin Spacey,
Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen
Baldwin, and
Benecio del Toro. Polygram, 1995. Film.
To emphasize specific performers (perf.)
or directors (dir.), begin the citation with the name of
the desired performer or director, followed by the appropriate
abbreviation.
Lucas, George, dir. Star Wars Episode
IV: A New Hope.
Twentieth Century Fox, 1977. Film.
Recorded Films or Movies
List films by their title. Include the
name of the director, the distributor, and the release year. If
relevant, list performer names after the director’s name. Use the
abbreviation perf. to head the list. End the entry with the
appropriate medium of publication (e.g. DVD, VHS, Laser disc).
Ed Wood . Dir. Tim Burton. Perf.
Johnny Depp, Martin Landau,
Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette.
Touchstone,
1994. DVD.
Broadcast Television or Radio Program
Begin with the title of the episode in
quotation marks. Provide the name of the series or program in
italics. Also include the network name, call letters of the station
followed by the city, and the date of broadcast. End with the
publication medium (e.g. Television, Radio). For television
episodes on Videocassette or DVD refer to the "Recorded Television
Episodes" section below.
"The Blessing Way." The X-Files.
Fox. WXIA, Atlanta. 19 Jul.
1998. Television.
Recorded Television Episodes (e.g. DVD,
Videocassette)
Cite recorded television episodes like
films (see above). Begin with the episode name in quotation marks.
Follow with the series name in italics. When the title of the
collection of recordings is different than the original series
(e.g., the show Friends is in DVD release under the title Friends:
The Complete Sixth Season), list the title that would be help
researchers locate the recording. Give the distributor name followed
by the date of distribution. End with the medium of publication
(e.g. DVD, Videocassette, Laser disc).
Note: The writer may choose to include
information about directors, writers, performers, producers between
the title and the distributor name. Use appropriate abbreviations
for these contributors (e.g. dir., writ., perf., prod.).
"The One Where Chandler Can't Cry."
Friends: The Complete
Sixth Season. Writ. Andrew Reich and Ted
Cohen. Dir.
Kevin Bright. Warner Brothers, 2004. DVD.
Sound Recordings
List sound recordings in such a way that
they can easily be found by readers. Generally, citations begin with
the artist name. They might also be listed by composers (comp.)
or performers (perf.). Otherwise, list composer and
performer information after the album title.
Use the appropriate abbreviation after the
person’s name and a comma, when needed. Put individual song titles
in quotation marks. Album names are italicized. Provide the name of
the recording manufacturer followed by the publication date (or
n.d., if date is unknown). List the appropriate medium at the
end of the entry (e.g. CD, LP, Audiocassette). For MP3 recordings,
see the "Digital Files" section below.
Note: If you know and desire to list the
recording date, include this information before the manufacturer
name. Use the abbreviation for "recorded" (Rec.) and list
the recording date (dd mm year format) before the manufacturer name.
Foo Fighters. In Your Honor. RCA,
2005. CD.
Nirvana. "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Nevermind. Geffen, 1991.
Audiocassette.
Beethoven, Ludwig van. The 9
Symphonies. Perf. NBC Symphony
Orchestra. Cond. Arturo
Toscanini. RCA, 2003. CD.
Spoken-Word Albums
Treat spoken-word albums the same as
musical albums.
Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill
Locations. Comedy Central,
2003. CD.
Digital Files (PDFs, MP3s, JPEGs)
Determine the type of work to cite (e.g.
article, image, sound recording) and cite appropriately. End the
entry with the name of the digital format (e.g. PDF, JPEG file,
Microsoft Word file, MP3). If the work does not follow
traditional parameters for citation, give the author’s name, the
name of the work, the date of creation, and the medium of
publication. Use Digital file when the medium cannot be
determined.
Beethoven, Ludwig van. Moonlight
Sonata. Crownstar, 2006.
MP3.
Smith, George. "Pax Americana: Strife in a
Time of Peace."
2005. Microsoft Word file.
Bentley, Phyllis. "Yorkshire and the
Novelist." The Kenyon
Review 30.4 (1968): 509-22. JSTOR.
PDF file.
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