MLA Citation:

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MLA Citation

• Getting
• it
• Right!

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BOOKS

• One Author
• Bode, J. Death is Hard to Live With Teenagers
  and How They Cope With Loss. New York Delacorte
  Press, 1999.
• Two or More Authors
• Monroe, J. G., Williamson, R. A. First Houses
  Native American Homes and Sacred Structures.
  Boston Houghton, 1993.
• Anonymous Book
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological
  Association (4th ed.).Washington, DC American
  Psychological Association, 1998.
• A Translation
• Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich. Fathers and Sons.
  Trans. Michael R. Katz. New York Norton, 1994.

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More Books

• Single Work from an Anthology
• Perkins, D. N. Why the Human Perceiver is a Bad
  Machine. Human and Machine Vision (pp.
  341-364). New York Academic Press. 2002.
• Article in a Reference Book
• Lynch, A. C. Russia. Colliers Encyclopedia
  (pp. 279-280). New York P. F. Collier, 1996.
• Government Publication
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  Human Spaceflight Student Activities (NASA
  Report No. 89-10639). Washington, DC U.S.
  Government Printing Office, 1997.

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

• Using MLA citation style (from Bedford/ St.
  Martins http//www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cit
  ex.html)1. World Wide Web site 2. Email
  message 3. Web discussion forum posting
  4. Listserv message 5. Newsgroup message
  6. Real-time communication 7. Telnet, FTP, and
  gopher sites

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PARENTHETICAL REFERENCES

• One Author
• Consumerism has become a national obsession
  (Jones, 1998, p. 12).
• Multiple Authors
• Teenagers who feel maladjusted in some aspect of
  their lives are likely to think of themselves as
  unpopular (Reinherz et al., 1994).
• Anonymous
• World population still expands, but more slowly
  now (New Hope, 2000).
• Indirect (or Secondary) Source
• This process has been illuminated by Hannover
  (as cited in Montrose, 1998).
• Personal Communications (letters, emails, phone
  conversations, etc.)
• The management team expects to finish hiring
  this spring (R. Fouser, personal communication,
  Dec. 17, 1999).

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PERIODICALS

• Signed Article in a Magazine
• Fishman, K. D. Problem Adoptions. The
  Atlantic, 270 Mar. 1998 37-69.
• Unsigned Article in a Magazine
• Saving the Elephant, Natures Great
  Masterpiece Banning the Ivory Trade is the
  Wrong Way to Save Africas Vanishing Elephants.
  Economist 1 Jul. 198915- 17.
• Signed Newspaper Article
• Trost, C. Born to Lose Babies of Crack Users
  Crowd Hospitals, Break Everybodys Heart. The
  Wall Street Journal, 18 Jul. 1998 1.
• Unsigned Newspaper Article
• Angry Pilot Quits Airliner on Field as
  Passenger Suggests He is Drunk. The New York
  Times, 22 Apr. 1990 20.

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OTHER SOURCES

• Interview by the Author (yourself)
• OConnell, Amanda. Telephone Interview. 7 Jan.
  2004.
• CD-ROM
• Sepoy Rebellion. Microsoft Encarta 98
  Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1998 ed. Redmond
  Microsoft, 1998.
• Film, Video, DVD, etc.
• Going Back A Return to Vietnam. DVD. Virginia
  Productions, 1982.
• Map or Chart
• Wisconsin Territory. Map. Madison Wisconsin
  Trails, 1998.

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Works Cited (example page)
Erickson, Jon. Historical Geology Understanding
Our Planets Past. New York, NY Facts on
File, Inc., 2003. Topinka, Lyn. Mt. Pinatubo.
Description Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines. 2 Aug.
2005. U.S. Geological Survey. 4
Dec.2006lthttp//vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Phi
lip pines/Pinatubo/description_pinatubo.htmlgt. V
olcanoes Earthquakes. Ed. Dr. Eldridge M.
Moores. Time Life Books. 1995.
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Websites

• Chart, image, graphic, or map
• Trypanosomiasis, African. Chart. Laboratory
  Identification of Parasites of Public Health
  Concern. 2 Aug. 2004. Center for Disease Control
  and Prevention. 12 Dec. 2006 lthttp//www.dpd.cde.g
  ov/dpdx/HTML/TrypanosomiasisAfrican.htmgt.
• Website article
• Toxoplasmosis. Parasitic Disease Information.
  23 Sept. 2004. Centers for Disease Control and
  Prevention. 12 Dec. 2006 lthttp//www.cdc.gov/ncidp
  d/parasites/toxoplasmosis/factsht_toxoplasmosis.ht
  mgt.