BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR
Anderson, Angela. The Secret Life of Pocahontas.
BOOK WITH TWO OR MORE AUTHORS
McDonald, Elizabeth and David
Giovanni. A History of Independent Schools.
Little
Brown, 1993.
Krech, David et al. Elements
of psychology.
BOOK: COLLECTION OF ESSAYS OR ARTICLES BY
VARIOUS AUTHORS
Chang, Louise, ed. O.J. Simpson: Reviews and
Reactions.
BOOK: TRANSLATION
Last Name, First Name of author. Title.
First Name Last Name of Translator. City of
Shikibu, Murasaki. The Tale of Genji.
Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker.
WORK IN A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS
OR ARTICLES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
Last Name, First Name. “Title of
Work.” Title of Collection. Ed. First Name Last Name of editor(s).
City of
Eds.
Last Name, First Name. "Title
of Entry." Title of Encyclopedia. Ed. First Name Last Name of
editor(s).
Edition.
City of
[Use first page+ if pages are not consecutive; see example below.]
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader. "How I became a Supreme
Court Justice." Time.
[For newspapers, add edition, if known, after
date]:
Gillespie, Curtis.
“Charmed by six feet of circuitry.”
New York Times
E1+.
Last Name, First Name. "Title
of Article." Title of Periodical. Volume, issue, or other #. (Date):
paging or
length. Access date. <URL>.
(Sept/Oct 1998): 2 screens.
ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE DATABASE [accessed directly or through a
subscription service]
Last Name, First Name. "Title
of Article." Title of Periodical.
Volume, issue, or other #. (Date):
paging or length. Name of Database. Name of Service. Access date.
<URL
of service’s home page>.
31-35. Academic Abstracts FullTEXT Ultra. EBSCOhost.22 Nov.
1998.
<http://www.epnet.com/>.
WEB SITE
Last Name, First Name. Title
(or Home page, if no title.) Date [last update or copyright date].
Any
institution or organization associated with the site. Access date.
<URL>.
Marlham, Geff. Home page. 1999 [copyright date].
[For online projects with editor(s), list
titles first]:
The Perseus Project. Ed. Gregory R.
Crane.
Piper, Alison.
“Congratulations, you have e-mail.” E-mail to Ainslee Wicks. 18
Nov.1998.
INTERVIEW
Reeves, Keanu. Personal Interview.
Gates, Bill.
E-mail Interview.
VIDEO
Title. Dir.
Name of Director. Perf. Name(s) of Performers. Medium. Distributor, Date.
Little Women. Dir. Gillian Armstrong. Perf. Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne,
and Trini Alvarado.
Videocassette.
Last Name, First Name [of artist].
Title. Date of creation. Museum (or if private collection,
include name
of owners), City.
Hopi bowl. n.d.
Jane Smith and John Alden Collection,
(Use this format for images found online – see second example. Just the URL is not enough!)
Last Name, First Name of artist. Title. Date of Creation. Museum or collection, City. Ed. [if an editor]
First Name Last name of author or editor. Title of Source. [Complete by following the
format for the particular type of resource (e.g., book, article, web site)].
Larousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art. New York: Prometheus Press, 1964.
<http://www.mfa.org>
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·
Omit
any missing elements (e.g., start with title if author is unknown; use n.d. for
no date, if unknown).
·
Abbreviate all months except May, June,
and July.
Note: All
formats and examples follow MLA style, as described in:
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: The Modern Language
Association of America, 1999.
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