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Library - MLA Style Sheet

 

                                              

      

           Citation Machine      

 Son of Citation Machine (includes how to site an online encyclopedia article)

 

CITING SOURCES FROM PRINT

Book, One Author

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.,1953.

Book, Two Authors

Naisbitt, John, and Patricia Aburdene. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the

     1990's. New York: William Morrow , 1990.

Book with Three Authors

Rabkin, Eric S., Martin Greenberg, and Joseph Olander, eds. No Place Else:

     Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Carbondale: Southern

     Illinois UP, 1963.

Book with More than Three Authors

Juravich, Tom, et al. Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts

      Workers and Their Unions. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1996.

Two or More Books by the Same Author

Durant, Will, and Areil Durant. The Age of Voltaire. New York: Simon, 1965.

     ---. A Dual Autobiography.New York: Simon, 1977.

An Edited Book

Paxton, John R. and William N. Eschmeyer. eds. Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego:

      Academic Press, Inc., 1995.

The Bible

The New American Bible. Saint Joseph Edition. New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 

     1970.

Dictionary

"Logistics." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 1993.

Corporate Author

Catholic Church. Catechism of the Catholic Church. New York: William Sadlier, Inc.,

     1994.

Signed Encyclopedia Article

Breslin, Thomas A. S. J. "Day, Dorothy." Encyclopedia Americana. International

      Edition.1985.

Unsigned Encyclopedia Article

"Day, Dorothy." Academic American Encyclopedia. Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier,

     1989.

A Previously Printed Essay in a Book  of Essays

Wolfe, Peter.  "The Impact of Knowles's A Separate Peace." The University Review. 36,

     no. 3 (March 1970). Rpt. in John Knowles's A Separate Peace. Ed. Harold Bloom.

     Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000: 59-70.

A Previously Printed Article Reprinted in a Multi-volume Series

Roberts, Shelia.  "A Confined World: A Rereading of Pauline Smith."  World Literature in

     English 24 (1984): 232-38. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary  Criticism. Ed. Dennis

     Poupard. Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 399-402.

An Original Essay in a Book of Essays

Schmidt, Christopher W. " A Close Examination of the Great Migrations

    Reveals a Complex and Diverse Story of Men and Women Making

    Decisions Based on Personal Consideration." History in Dispute: American Social

    and Political Movements, 1900-1945. Ed. Robert J. Allison .Vol. 3. Detroit:

     St. James Press, 2000: 74-77.

A Signed Periodical Article

Barry, William A. "Does God Communicate With Me?." America. 3 December 2001: 8-11.

An Unsigned Periodical Article

"Structure of Medical Education Faces Development." Beijing Review. 22 November,

     2001: 32.

Interviews – Personal

Kennedy, Robert. Personal Interview. 11 January 1971.

 

CITING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES:

CD-ROMS

"What Should a Woman Do About the Possibility of Being Raped?" Welcome to the

     Catholic Church. CD-ROM. Version 2.0.  Gervais, OR: Harmony Media, 1997.

Videos

It's a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel

     Barrymore, and Thomas Mitchell. 1946 Videocassette. Republic. 1988.

A Journal Article from Infotrac

Budd, Louis J. "Mark Twain's 'Encounter with an Interviewer:' The Height (or Depth) of

     Nonsence." Nineteenth Century Literature. September 2000: 226+.  Infotrac:

     Expanded Academic ASAP. O'Rourke Library, Bishop Fenwick High School,

    Peabody, 4 June 2001. <http://web7.infotrac.galegroup.com>.

A Journal Article from EBSCO Web

Hull, Richard. "Sent Meaning vs. Attached Meaning: Two Interpretations of

    Interpretations in The Scarlet Letter." ATQ. June 2000: 143+.  EBSCOHOST:

     MasterFILE Premier.O'Rourke Library., Bishop Fenwick High School,

     Peabody, MA. 4 June 2001.

     <http://web16.epnet.com/select>.

A University Web Site

Landow, George P. The Victorian Web. 1994. 4 June, 2001.

     <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html>

A Signed Internet Article

Wherlock, Abby. "Biographical Information about Edith Wharton." The Edith Wharton

     Society. 31 December, 2001. 15 January 2002.

     <http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/wharton/>.

An Unsigned Internet Site

"Grey Wolf." bcadventure.com. 2002. 15 January, 2002.

     http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/wilderness/animals/greywolf.htm

 

Source:

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of research Papers. 6th Edition.

     New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003.