Bibliographic Citation Formats (MLA Style)
Helen Temple Cooke Library
Dana Hall School

BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR

Last Name, First Name. Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Date.

Anderson, Angela. The Secret Life of Pocahontas. New York: Macmillan, 1995.

BOOK WITH TWO OR MORE AUTHORS

Last Name, First Name and First Name Last Name. Title.  City of Publication: Publisher, Date.

McDonald, Elizabeth and David Giovanni. A History of Independent Schools. Boston:

Little Brown, 1993.

[For more than three authors, you may use et al. instead of the names of the subsequent authors.]
 
Krech, David et al.  Elements of psychology. New York: Knopf, 1974.

BOOK: COLLECTION OF ESSAYS OR ARTICLES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS

Last Name, First Name of editor, ed. Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Date.

Chang, Louise, ed. O.J. Simpson: Reviews and Reactions. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1994.

BOOK: TRANSLATION

Last Name, First Name of author. Title. First Name Last Name of Translator. City of Publication: Publisher, Date.

Shikibu, Murasaki. The Tale of Genji. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. New York: Knopf, 1976.

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 Publication: Publisher, Date. Page #s.

 

Krull, Robert.  “Children Learning to Watch Television.”  Children’s Understanding of Television. 

Eds. Jennings Bryant and Daniel R. Anderson. New York: Academic Press, 1983.  103-124.

ARTICLE FROM A PRINT REFERENCE BOOK [add page # if articles are not alphabetized]

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Entry." Title of Encyclopedia. Ed. First Name Last Name of editor(s).

Edition. City of Publication: Publisher, Date.

 

Lopez, Julio. "Ballroom Dancing." World Book Encyclopedia. Ed. Thomas Smith. 15th edition.

  Chicago: World Book International, 1993.

ARTICLE FROM A PRINT PERIODICAL

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical.  Date: first page #-last page #.

[Use first page+ if pages are not consecutive; see example below.]

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader. "How I became a Supreme Court Justice." Time. 15 July 1994: 80-85.

[For newspapers, add edition, if known, after date]:

Gillespie, Curtis.  “Charmed by six feet of circuitry.”  New York Times 8 Aug. 2002, New England ed.:

E1+.

ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE PERIODICAL

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical. Volume, issue, or other #. (Date): 

paging or length. Access date. <URL>.

 

Adams, Rachel.  “Staying With It: Three Cases of Teen Vegetarianism.” Vegetarian Journal.

  (Sept/Oct 1998): 2 screens. 12 Aug. 2002. <http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj98sep/989teen.htm>.

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>.

 

Megee, Mary. "Students Need Media Literacy: The New Basic." Education Digest.    (Sept. 1997):   

31-35.  Academic Abstracts FullTEXT Ultra.  EBSCOhost.22 Nov. 1998. 

<http://www.epnet.com/>.

 

Suny, Ronald Grigor.  “Georgia (Country)." Encarta Online Encyclopedia. 2002. Microsoft Corp.

13 Aug. 2002. <http://encarta.msn.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].  3 Aug. 2002. <http://www.marlham.net>.

[For online projects with editor(s), list titles first]:

The Perseus Project.  Ed. Gregory R. Crane. 12 Nov. 1998 [last update].  Classics    Department,

Tufts University.  22 November 1998. <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/>.

E-MAIL

Last Name, First Name.  Subject of the message.  E-mail to Recipient.  Date of  message.

Piper, Alison.  “Congratulations, you have e-mail.”  E-mail to Ainslee Wicks. 18 Nov.1998.

INTERVIEW

Last Name, First Name. Personal (or E-mail or Telephone) Interview. Date.

Reeves, Keanu. Personal Interview. 12 Apr. 1994.

Gates, Bill.  E-mail Interview. 12 Aug. 2002.

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. Columbia Home Video, 1995.

PAINTING, SCULPTURE, OR OTHER WORK OF ART

Last Name, First Name [of artist]. Title. Date of creation. Museum (or if private collection,

include name of owners), City.

da Vinci, Leonardo. Mona Lisa. 1506.  Louvre Museum, Paris.

Hopi bowl. n.d. Jane Smith and John Alden Collection, Boston.

REPRODUCTION OF A WORK OF ART

(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)].

 

Pisanello.  Medal of Malatesta Novello.  c. 1445.  Museo Nazionale, Florence. Ed. Rene Huyghe.

  Larousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art.    New York: Prometheus Press, 1964.

 

Western Apache Bowl.  From 1890-1910. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 12 August 2002.

<http://www.mfa.org>.

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Tips:

·        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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