MLA STYLE: Citing Your Source

In MLA style, you refer to the works of others in two ways: in your text (parenthetically) and in the works cited list at the end of your essay. The examples below will demonstrate the format for a number of resource types, but you should also consider using NoodleTools or EasyBib (why reinvent the wheel?!) Parenthetical Citations: The purpose of in-text citations is to point your reader to the correct documentation in the Works Cited list. Generally, it will be authors last name and page number, unless the authors name was included in the sentence. Then just use the page number: EXAMPLE: Although he acknowledges there are contradictions, Walforth states most scientists believe in global warming (83). (NOTE THE PERIOD GOES AT THE VERY END!)

Book With One Author Last name, First name. Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher, date of publication.
EX: Fleming, Thomas. Liberty! The American Revolution. New York: Viking, 1997. Print. Parenthetical Citation: (Fleming 38) If author mentioned in sentence: According to Fleming, the Cirst President did not seek nomination (84)

Book By Multiple Authors Last name, First name, First Name, Last name. Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher, date of publication. (If there are 3 authors or more, just
list the 7irst one, followed by et al.) EX: Thornhill, Roger, and June Cartwright. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999. Print. Parenthetical Citation: (Thornhill and Cartwright 89)

Multiple Works By One Author List the works alphabetically, by title. (Ignore words like the and an) Provide the authors name for the Mirst title only.
EX: Hartford, William J. Austen and New Historicism. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. Print. ---. The Movies of the Sixties: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993. Print. Parenthetical Citation: Use shortened form of title. Articles in quotation marks, titles of books in italics. (Hartford, New Historicism 38)

Article From an Online Database Author. Title of Article. Name of Journal. Vol. number. (year): page number. Name of database. Web. Date of access.
EX :Langhamer, Claire. Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England. Historical Journal 50.1 (2007): 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009. Parenthetical Citation: (Langhamer 190)

Magazine Article (Print) Author. Title of Article. Name of Magazine. Vol. number. (year): page number. Format.
EX: Cannon, Angie. "Just Saying No to Tests." U.S. News & World Report. Oct. 1999: 34. Print. Parenthetical Citation: (Cannon 34)

Online Image (including photograph, painting, sculpture, and musical score) Artist. Title. Date created. Museum. Place. Name of website. Medium of publication. Date accessed. EX: Fig. 1. Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Museo National del Prado. Web. 22 May 2006. Parenthetical Citation: (Goya)

Page From a Website:

If the author is named, cite it. Otherwise, just use the title of the page. Author. Title of page. Name of website. Date published/updated. Web. Date accessed. EX: "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. June 2005. Web. 24 Feb. 2009. Parenthetical Citation: (Vegetarian Chili)

Interview:
Subject. Personal Interview. Date. EX. Whitehurst, Daniel. Personal interview. 5 Mar. 2003. Parenthetical Citation: If not named in sentence (Whitehurst)

Email (including email interview)

Author. Subject line. Message to your name. Date. Email. EX: Depp, Johnny "Re: Your Artistic Vision." Message to Khailuuna Boldbatr. 1 Dec. 2000. E-mail.

Indirect Source (Quotation found in a book by a different author)

She argues that high schools are pressured to act as social service centers, and they dont do that well (Ravitch, qtd. in Cannon 34). Works Cited: Cannon, Angie. "Just Saying No to Tests." U.S. News & World Report. Oct. 1999:
34. Print.

Online Video
Author. "Title of clip or post or podcast." Type of source. Title of web site. Date of clip or post or podcast. Date of access < url >. EXAMPLES: Run4u. "See Spot Run." Online video clip. YouTube. 1 Feb. 2005. 27 Nov. 2008 < url >. "Gene Map of Brain Offers Hope for Alzheimer's, Autism.". Online video clip. The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. PBS. 2 Feb, 2010. 3 Mar. 2012.

Charts, Tables and Diagrams The illustration label and number should always appear in two places: the document main text (see table/chart/diagram 1) and near the illustration itself (Table 1). If you are ONLY using the chart (no other information), place the full-text citation UNDER the chart or diagram, and you do not need to have it in the works cited. From a Book First Name, Last name. Title of Chart. Chart.Publishing City: Publisher, Date. page number. Print. Tom Shachtman. Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold. Chart Boston: Houghton Mifin, 1999. 35. Print. Web (corporation) Name of agency. Title of chart, Name of website, date accessed, Web. Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics. Older Americans 2008: Key Indicators of Well-Being. Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics.Mar. 2008, Web. EXAMPLE 1: CHART 1

(Use this style if you are using other material from the text, and will list the source in your Works Cited.)

EXAMPLE 2

Source: Congressional Budget Ofce, comp. "Total Revenue and Outlays." Chart. Ezra Klein. Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2013. Web. 25 Jan. 2013. <http:// voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/the_economy_of_the_2010_electi.html>.

option 2 If you are ONLY using the chart and no other information, use the full bibliographic

Google Map (you created it)

Place. Map. Google Maps. Google, Date created. Web. Date accessed. Walla Walla, WA." Map. Google Maps. Google, 22 Apr. 2010. Web. 22 Apr. 2010.

Quoted Material from a Teacher Handout

Author of quoted source. Title of article or speech Title of Publication. (if available). "Title of Handout." Handout. Title of course. (Name of instructor.) Name of school. Date of handout. EXAMPLE: Aldiss, Brian. "Stalins Speech of August 1943. Handout. European History. (Kari Robertson.) WAB. Feb. 2013. Print.
Note: If any of the above information is not given, leave the information out.

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