Library's White MLA Sheet (primarily for non-english coursework) MLA Citation Style Guide - 7 th Edition PRINT SOURCES BOOKS Author s name(s). Title of book: including subtitle (underlined or italicized). Place: Publisher, Year. Medium of publication = Print. ONE AUTHOR English, Carol. The Cliffs Won t Do: Read the Book. Philadelphia: McGraw, 1997. Print. TWO OR THREE AUTHORS (more than 3, use: 1 st name, et. al.) Drucker, Darla, and Amy Jones. How to Survive Your Wedding. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Print. CORPORATE AUTHOR Wissahickon Home Economics Department. Cooking With Spice. New York: Scribner s, 1993. Print. EDITOR Valenza, Joyce, ed. Bagels and Books: An Anthology. Brooklyn: Random, 1991. Print. WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY (signed articles or separate authors) Smith, James. The Physics of Sushi. The Fabulous Physics Paper. Ed. Samuel Klein. Rome: Cambridge UP, 1954. 46-59. Print. BASIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
SIGNED ARTICLE Copaset, Sandra. Zen and the Art of Wearing Blue And Khaki. Encyclopedia Americana. 1996 ed. Print. UNSIGNED ARTICLE Best Beards of All Time. World Book Encyclopedia. 15 th ed. 1993. Print. SPECIALIZED ENCYCLOPEDIAS (single volume or multivolume) SINGLE VOLUME: signed article Williams, Tony. God s Little Acre (1933). Encyclopedia of Novels into Film. Eds. John C. Tibbets and James M. Welsh. New York: Facts on File, 1998. Print. UNSIGNED MULTIVOLUME Idi Amin. Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ed. Paula K. Byers. 2 nd ed. 21 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Print. JOURNALS Author s name(s). Title of article. Journal title. Volume no. (year of publication): pg. nos. Print. ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL Skater, Andrew. Rollerblading on a Secondary Level. Secondary Education 54 (1990): 113-25. Print. PERIODICALS (magazines)
ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE (weekly; biweekly) Henry, Mary Ann. Announcing Bus Changes with Flair. Time 4 July 1991: 71-76. Print. ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE (monthly; bimonthly) PERIODICAL (give month(s) and year) Ramsey, Pamela. Where s My Smiley Face? MacWorld Sept. 1997: 86-94. Print. REPRINTS ARTICLE REPRINTED IN ANOTHER SOURCE Roberts, Sheila. A Confined World: A Rereading of Pauline Smith. World Literature Written in English 24 (1984): 232-38. Rpt. In Twentieth- Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 399-402. Print. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK reprinted in another source Morley, Patricia. Margaret Laurence. New York: Twayne, 1981: 143-146. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 62. Detroit: Gale, 1991. 288-299. Print. NEWSPAPERS SIGNED ARTICLE Goldberg, Grace. The Inside Track: Alumni Life. Trojan Times 10 Oct. 1991: 17. Print. UNSIGNED ARTICLE WITH NON-CONSECUTIVE PG. NOS. Striking a Pose with Sally Miles. New York Times 15 Oct. 1997. sec. 1: 35+. Print.
ELECTRONIC SOURCES ONLINE DATABASES (subscription) First cite the original source information (from book or periodical). Complete the citation by stating the title of the database (italicized), the medium of publication (Web), and the date of access. Add the URL at the end in <angle brackets> only if your teacher requires it. Student Resource Center Niccola Machiavelli. DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center Gold. Web. 4 Aug. 2009. Hall, Jeffrey C. Mars. Gale Encyclopedia of Science. 4 th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Student Resource Center Gold. Web. 30 July 2007. Periodical: EBSCO and Proquest Schaeffer, Charles, and Art Cosing. This School Is For The Birds! Ranger Rick. Sept. 2001: 34. MasterFile Premier. Ebsco. Web. 10 Sept. 2004. Flora, Carlin. Sugar on the Brain. Psychology Today. Nov./Dec. 2004: 22. Platinum Periodicals. Proquest. Web. 9 Nov. 2008. History Resource Center US and World French, Allen. Bunker Hill, Battle of. Dictionary of American History. 3 rd ed. 10 vols. New York:
Scribner s, 2003. History Resource Center. Web. 9 Nov. 2008. Literature Resource Center Nagel, James. Ernest Hemingway. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 9: American Novelists, 1910-1945.Detroit: Gale, 1981: 100-120. Literature Resource Center. Web. 6 Aug. 2009. AP Image Marsh, George E. Dust Bowl Study. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 15 April 2004. AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive. Web. 17 Nov. 2008. INTERNET Web Pages (free) Cite the following, as available, in order: 1. Name of author (reversed for alphabetizing). 2. Title of Work (underlined if independent, in quotes if part of a larger work). 3. Title of Overall Website (italicized, if distinct from title of the work). 4. Version or Edition used (exs. Rev. ed., 7 th ed.). 5. Publisher or Sponsor of site (n.p. if none). 6. Date of Publication (n.d. if none) 7. Medium of Publication (Web) 8. Date of Access 9. URL if required by your teacher. Green, Joshua. The Rove Presidency. The Atlantic.com. Atlantic Monthly Group, Sept. 2007. Web. 15 May 2008. Lessig, Lawrence. Free Debates: More Republicans Call on RNC. Lessig 2.0. N.p., 4 May 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.
Scholarly Project Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willet. Indiana U. 24 April 2003. Web. 9 Jan. 2006. Downey, Glen. The Development of the Chess Motif in Victorian Fiction. Victorian Web. 21 March 2000. Web. 16 Feb. 2008. Professional Site Portuguese Language Page. U of Chicago P. N.d. Web. 1 May 2008. Personal Site Lancashire, Ian. Home Page. N.p. 23 Jan. 2005. Web. 5 Aug. 2009. EXAMPLE WITH URL Field, J. V. Johannes Kepler. April 1999. School of Mathematics and Statistics. University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Web. 11 Nov. 2004. <http:www.history.msc.standrews.ocuk/biographies/ Kepler.html>.