MLA STYLE How to Cite a Book with One Author

How to Cite a Book with One Author 1. Author s last name, author s first name. 2. Title of book. 3. City of publication: (No state) 4. Publisher, 5. Latest copyright date. 6. Print. Example : Whitney, Stephen. Western Forests. New York: Knopf, 2001. Print.,. author s last name author s first name. : title of book city of publication,. Print. publisher copyright year

How to Cite a Book with Two or More Authors 1. First author s last name, first author s first name, and second author s first name second author s last name. (if applicable: third author s first and last name. ) 2. Title of book. 3. City of publication: 4. Publisher, 5. Latest copyright date. 6. Print. Haslam, Andrew, and Clare Doran and Joe Smith. Japan. Princeton, NJ: Two-Can, 2001. Print.,, and 1 st author s last name 1 st author s first name 2 nd author s first name and 2 nd author s last name 3 rd author s first name.. 3 rd author s last name title of book :,. city of publication publisher year Print.

How to Cite a Book with an Editor (no author) 1. Editor s last name, editor s first name, ed. 2. Title of book. 3. City of publication : 4. Publisher, 5. Latest copyright year. 6. Print. Example : Weiss, Jerry M., ed. From One Experience to Another. New York: Prentice- Hall, 2002. Print.,, ed. editor s last name editor s first name. : title of book (in italics) city of publication,. Print. publisher copyright year

MLA Style How to Cite Print Magazine Articles 1. Author s last name, author s first name. 2. Title of the article. 3. Title of magazine. 4. Publication date: (month and year or day, month abbreviated, year) 5. Page number(s). 6. Print. Baker, Peter. Where the Body Meets Memory. Atlantic Monthly Feb.1997: 45. Print.,. author s last name author s first name. title of article title of magazine :. Print. publication date page number(s)

How to Cite an Online Magazine or Newspaper If you are citing a periodical published online and you did NOT access it through a database, use this format. 1. Author s last name, author s first name. (if given) 2. Title of article. 3. Title of magazine or newspaper. 4. Publisher or group responsible for the site, ( n.p. - if publisher is not given) 5. Date published. (day, month abbreviated, year) 6. Web. 7. Date you accessed the article. (day, month abbreviated, year) Brooks, Kate. Martyrdom. Newsweek. n.p., 24 Aug. 2007. Web. 7 Sept. 2007.,. author s last name author s first name.. title of article title of magazine or newspaper,. Web.. Publisher or n.p. date published date accessed

How to Cite a Print Encyclopedia Article 1. Author s last name, author s first name. (if given) 2. Title of article. 3. Title of Encyclopedia. 4. Edition (year or number followed by ed.) 5. Latest copyright year. 6. Print. Owens, H.P. Infinity in Theology and Metaphysics. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Reprint ed. 1972. Print.,. author s last name author s first name. title of article title of encyclopedia. ed.. Print. edition latest copyright year

How to Cite an Online Encyclopedia 1. Author s last name, author s first name. (or editor, if given) 2. Title of article. 3. Title of Encyclopedia. 4. Publisher/Sponsor, 5. Year of Edition. 6. Web. 7. Date you accessed the article. (day, month, year) Cracraft, James. "Peter I, the Great." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2012. Web. 1 Oct. 2012.,.. author s last name author s first name title of article., encyclopeida title publisher/sponsor. Web.. year date accessed

How to Cite the Encyclopedia of Literary Criticism Remember we have FOUR DIFFERENT SETS of this encyclopedia. Use the appropriate title: Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC) Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) If you are using the BIOGRAPHY section about your author as a source, cite this way: Ernest (Miller) Hemingway. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 41. Detroit: Gale, 1987. 196-197. Print. If you are using an article of CRITICISM on your author as a source, cite this way: Butterfield, Herbie. Ernest Hemingway. Contemporary Literacy Criticism. Vol. 41. Detroit: Gale, 1987. 197-199. Print. Within your document, mention the CRITIC S NAME in the sentence of your essay this way: Herbie Wilson states that the characters in Hemingway s short stories evoke social, political, and ethical themes ( Ernest 197).

How to Cite an Essay from a Book of Collected Works 1. Author s last name, author s first name. (if given) 2. Title of essay. 3. Title of book. 4. Name of editor or translator, first name, last name. (preceded by Ed. Or Trans.) 5. City of publication: 6. Publisher, 7. Date of publication. 8. Page numbers of essay. 9. Print. Dye, Sandra. Golf. The Faber Book of America. Ed. Christopher Feldman. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002. 21-22. Print.,. author s last name author s first name title of essay.. title of book Ed.. : editor s name city of publication,.. Print. publisher year page numbers

How to Cite Databases 1. Author s last name, author s first name. (if given) 2. Title of article. 3. Title of publication. 4. Volume, issue or version numbers. (if given, with no period between publication title and volume, issue or version numbers) 5. (Date of publication): (if given) 6. Page number(s). (if none, use n. pag. ) 7. Title of Database. 8. Web. 9. Date you accessed the information. (day, month abbreviated, year) Hagerty, Bernard. "Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941." The Historian 74.3 (2012): 594+. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 17 Oct. 2012. Your citation here:,.. author s last name author s first name title of article ( ):. title of publication vol # date page # s. Web.. title of database date accessed

MLA Style How to Cite JSTOR articles (Scholarly Journal in a Database) 1. Author s last name, author s first name. (if given) 2. Title of article. 3. Title of journal. 4. Volume number 5. (Year of Publication) : 6. Page number(s). 7. JSTOR 8. Web. 9. Date you accessed the article. Tolson, Nancy. Fantasy and Ray Bradbury. Modern Literary Studies 32 (1998): 9-16. JSTOR. Web. 1 Oct. 2009.,. Author s last name Author s first name. title of article title of journal ( ) :. JSTOR. Web.. vol. year pages date accessed

MLA Style How to Cite a Page on a Website 1. Author s (or editor s) last name, author s first name. (if given) 2. Title of article or page. 3. Title of the overall web site. (if different from #2) 4. Sponsoring organization or group responsible for site, 5. Date of publication or update. (day, month abbreviated, year) if none, use n.d. 6. Web. 7. Date you accessed the information. (day, month abbreviated, year) Example with an author: Walter, Andrew W. Brain Tumors. KidsHealth. The Nemours Foundation. Sept. 2012. Web. 28 Sept. 2012. Example with an editor: Green, Joshua, ed. The Rove Presidency. The Atlantic.com. Atlantic Monthly Group, Sept, 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.,.. author s last name author s first name title of article.. title of the website sponsoring organization. Web.. date of publication date accessed

How to Cite an Online Magazine or Newspaper From a Database 1. Author s last name, author s first name. (if given) 2. Title of article. 3. Title of magazine or newspaper. 4. Date published: (day, month abbreviated, year) 5. Page number(s). ( n.pag. if no page numbers are listed) 6. Title of Database. 7. Web. 8. Date you accessed the article. (day, month abbreviated, year) *Entries for newspapers & magazines do not require volume or issue # s. Song, Sora. Teens and Depression. Time. 30 Aug. 2004: 67. MAS Ultra-School Edition. Web. 16 Oct. 2012.,. author s last name author s first name title of article.. title of magazine or newspaper :. Web. date published page number title of database. date accessed

MLA Style How to Cite Dictionaries and Interviews Dictionary: Word. Name of Dictionary. Copyright year. Print. When citing a specific definition among several~ Noon. Def. 4b. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2 nd ed. 1989. Print. Personal Interview: Last name of person interviewed, first name of person interviewed. Personal interview. Date. (day, month abbr., year) Obama, Barack. Personal interview. 12 Dec. 2009. Online Interview: Last name of interviewee, first name of interviewee. Interview by first name last name. Title of Interview. (if given) Title of the website. Publisher or Sponsor of website, publication date. Web. Date of access (day, month abbr. yr). Zinkievich, Craig. Interview by Gareth Von Kallenbach. Skewed & Reviewed. Skewed & Reviewed, 2009. Web. 15 Mar. 2009.

How to Cite an Introduction/Preface/Foreword/Afterword 1. Author s last name, author s first name. 2. Name of the section (Introduction, Preface, Foreword, etc) 3. Title of book. 4. Author of the book. (Full name in normal order preceded with By ) 5. City where book was published: (No state) 6. Publisher, 7. Latest copyright date. 8. Print. Example : Flestiner, John. Preface. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. By Paul Celan. New York: Norton, 2001. Print. A Translation 1. Author s last name, author s first name. 2. Title of book. 3. Trans. -Followed by their full name in normal order. 4. City where book was published: (No state) 5. Publisher, 6. Latest copyright date. 7. Print. Giroud, Francoise. Marie Curie: A Life. Trans. Lydia Davis. New York: Holmes, 1986 Print.

How to Cite a Primary Source (Image, Photograph or Visual Art) From a print source: 1. Artist s last name, artist s first name. (if given) 2. Title of work. (If caption and/or not actual title, put title in quotation marks.) 3. Date of creation. (if unavailable, use N.d. ) 4. Name of institution that houses the work, (e.g. a museum) or use Collection of (If the collector is unidentified, use Private collection without a city name.) 5. City of housing institution. 6. Title of book. 7. Author or editor of book. (If editor, precede name with Ed. ) 8. City of Publication: 9. Publisher, 10. Year of publication. 11. Page, figure or slide number 12. Print. Eakins, Thomas. Spinning. 1881. Private collection. Thomas Eakins. Ed. Darrel Sewell. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in assn. with Yale UP, 2001. Plate 91. Print. From an online source: 1. Artist s last name, artist s first name. (if given) 2. Title of work. (If caption and/or not actual title, put title in quotation marks.) 3. Date of creation. (if unavailable, use N.d. ) 4. Name of institution that houses the work, (e.g. a museum) or use Collection of (If the collector is unidentified, use Private collection without a city name. 5. Title of the database or website. 6. Web. (medium of publication) 7. Date of access. (day, month, year) Lange, Dorothea. The Migrant Mother. 1936. Library of Congress. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 2 Oct. 2012.