Endnote and Footnote Formats
Helen Temple Cooke Library
Dana Hall School

BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR

^# First Name Last Name, Title (City of Publication: Publisher, Date) page #.

¹ Angela Anderson, The Secret Life of Pocahontas (New York: Macmillan, 1995) 44-5.

BOOK WITH TWO OR MORE AUTHORS

^# First Name Last Name and First Name Last Name, Title (City of Publication: Publisher, Date) page #.

¹ Elizabeth McDonald and David Giovanni, A History of Independent Schools (Boston: Little Brown, 1993) 22.

[For more than three authors, you may use et al. instead of the names of the subsequent authors.]

¹ David Krech, et al. Elements of Psychology (New York: Knopf, 1974) 99-101.

BOOK: COLLECTION OF ESSAYS OR ARTICLES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS [entire work is cited]

^# First Name Last Name of editor, ed. Title (City of Publication: Publisher,

Date).

¹ Louise Chang, ed., O.J. Simpson: Reviews and Reactions (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1994).

WORK IN A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS OR ARTICLES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS

^# First Name Last Name of author, “Title of Work,” Title of Collection, ed. First Name Last Name of editor (City of Publication: Publisher, Date) Page #s.

¹ Robert Krull, “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

^# First Name Last Name. "Title of Entry," Title of Encyclopedia, ed. First Name Last Name of editor, edition (City of publication: Publisher, Date).

¹ Julio Lopez, "Ballroom Dancing," World Book Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas Smith, 15^th ed. (Chicago: World Book International, 1993).

ARTICLE FROM A PRINT PERIODICAL

^# First Name Last Name. "Title of Article," Title of Periodical Date: page #s.

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

¹ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "How I became a Supreme Court Justice," Time 15 July 1994: 80-85.

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

² Curtis Gillespie, “Charmed by Six Feet of Circuitry,” New York Times 8 Aug. 2002, New England ed.: E1+.

ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE PERIODICAL

^# First Name Last Name. "Title of Article," Title of Magazine Volume, issue, or other # (Date): paging or length, Access date <URL>.

¹ Rachel Adams, “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 A CD-ROM

^# First Name Last Name, "Title of Topic or Entry," Title of Publication. Edition/version, CD-ROM, (City of Publication: Publisher, date).

¹“Georgia (Country)," World Book, Version 1.0., CD-ROM (Chicago: World Book, Inc., 1998).

ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE SERVICE [accessed directly or through a subscription service]

^# First Name Last Name. "Title of Article," Title of Publication Volume, issue, or other # (Date): paging or length, Name of Database, Name of Service, Access date <URL of service’s home page>.

¹ Mary Megee, "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/>.

²Ronald Grigor Suny, “Georgia (country)," Encarta Online Encyclopedia, 2002, Microsoft Corporation, 13 Aug. 2002 <http://encarta.msn.com>.

WEB SITE

^# First Name Last 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>.

¹ Geff Marlham, Home page, 1999 [copyright date], 3 Aug. 2002 <http://www.marlham.net>.

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

²The Perseus Project, ed. Gregory R. Crane, 12 Nov. 1998 [last update], Classics Department, Tufts University, 22 Nov. 1998 <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/>.

E-MAIL

^# First Name Last Name. Subject of the message, e-mail to Recipient, Date of message.

¹Alison Piper, “Congratulations, you have e-mail,” e-mail to Ainslee Wicks, 18 Nov. 1998.

INTERVIEW

^# First Name Last Name, personal (or e-mail or telephone) interview, Date.

¹Keanu Reeves, personal interview, 12 Apr. 1994.

²Bill Gates, e-mail interview, 12 Aug. 2002.

VIDEO

^# Title, dir. Name of Director, perf. Name of Performers, Medium, Distributor, Date.

¹Little Women, dir. Gillian Armstrong, perf. Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, and Trini Alvarado, videocassette, Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1995.

PAINTING, SCULPTURE, OR OTHER WORK OF ART

^# First Name Last Name [of artist], Title, Date of creation, Museum (or if private collection, include name of owners), City.

¹da Vinci, Leonardo, Mona Lisa, 1506, Louvre Museum, Paris.

²Hopi bowl, n.d., Jane Smith and John Alden Collection, Boston.

REPRODUCTION OF A WORK OF ART

^# 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)].

¹Pisanello, Medal of Malatesta Novello, c. 1445, Museo Nazionale, Florence, Ed. Rene Huyghe, Larousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art, New York: Prometheus Press, 1964.

¹Western Apache Bowl, From 1890-1910, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 12 August 2002 <http://www.mfa.org>.

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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.