Ms Turgel

James Caldwell High School

MLA 7 Citation Examples
Always speak to your teacher for the specific requirements of your assignment.
Work involving research will require in-text citations and a Works Cited page.
Your Works Cited page should be formatted in accordance with MLA guidelines.
Detailed instructions are available at the Purdue Online Writing Lab.
Examples of common citations are provided below.
All citations should be double spaced.
Do not skip lines between citations.
Indent the second and subsequent lines in each citation by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent.
List citations alphabetically by the authors last name.
BOOK (ONE AUTHOR)
Format:
Last name, First name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of
Publication.
Example:
Wein, Elizabeth. Code Name Verity. New York: Hyperion, 2013. Print.
BOOK (MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR)
Format:
Last name of first author, first name of first author, "and" first name last name of second author. Title of
Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Green, John, and David Levithan. Will Grayson, Will Grayson. New York: Dutton Books, 2010. Print

BOOK WITH MULTIPLE EDITIONS

Format:
Last name, first name. Title of book. Number of edition. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of
Publication. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 3rd ed. New York:
Pearson/Longman, 2004. Print.

ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK (I.E. ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES)

Format:

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Lastname, First name. (if available) "Title of Article." Title of Collection. Year of Publication. Medium of
Publication.

Example:
Layne, Lara Lynn. Media Psychology. The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology. 2nd ed. 2001. Print.
INTERVIEW
Format:
Last name of person interviewed, first name. Personal Interview. Date of Interview.
Example:
Gates, Bill. Personal Interview. 7 May 2009.
WEBSITE
Format:
Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number (if available). Name of
institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher). date of resource creation (if
available). Medium of publication. Date of access.
Use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.
Example:
The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. May 13, 2011.
A PAGE ON A WEBSITE
Format:
Authors last name, Authors first name. Title of page. Name of Site. Version number (if available).
Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher). date of resource
creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.
Example:
Mueller, Jennifer. "NCAA Basketball Overtime Rules." eHow. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 6 July 2015.
AN ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE DATABASE OR OTHER ELECTRONIC SUBSCRIPTION
SERVICE
Format:
Cite articles from online databases and other subscription services just as you would print sources.
Include volume and issue numbers and the year of publication.
Example:
Langhamer, Claire. "Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England." Historical Journal 50.1
(2007): 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.

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James Caldwell High School
Works Cited
The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 9, December 2015.