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MLA Style

THE GENERAL FORMAT

1” margins

Double spaced throughout (even for block quotes)

12 point font, usually Times New Roman

Works Cited page

Running head with your last name and page number

PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS

Indicate where your information came from

Use them whenever you summarize, para-

phrase, or quote a source

Place them at the end of a sentence but

before the period

Format: (Citation #).

Example: (Jones 18).

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1 Author. Whoever is listed as the creator. Last name, first name.

2 Title of Source. Italics for books or websites; “quotation marks” for periodicals (such as newspapers) or songs

3 Title of container, The larger collection something is in, such as a collection, TV series, or website

4 other contributors, Editors, producers, illustrators, translators, etc., if applicable

5 version, List the edition or version of a work, if applicable

6 number, List the number in a sequence, if applicable

7 publisher, The group that produced or distributed the source to the public

8 publication date, Use the date most relevant to your use of the source

9 location. Page numbers, URL, DOI, etc.

MLA Quick Citation Guide

Sample Works Cited List Citations

Book by a single author King, Stephen. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. Grant, 1982.

Book by two or more authors Pratchett, Terry and Neil Gaiman. Good Omens. Gollancz/Workman, 1990.

Book by a corporate author American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. Random House, 1998.

Edited book or anthology Larson, Gary. “Runaways.” Wiener Dog Art: A Far Side Collection, edited by Jake Morrisey, Andrews McMeel Publish- ing, 1990, p. 60.

Article or chapter in edited book or anthology Vásquez, Manuel. A. "Grappling with the Legacy of Modernity: Implications for the Sociology o Religion." Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion, edited by Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge, Peggy Leveitt, and David Smilde, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 23-42

Chapter in a volume in a series Fairclough, Norman, and Ruth Wodak. “Critical Discourse Analysis.” Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduc- tion, edited by Teun van Dijk, vol. 2, Sage, 1997, pp. 258-284.

Article in a reference book Tolchinsky, Liliana. "Childhood Conceptions of Literacy." Handbook of Children's Literacy, edited by Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant, 2004, pp. 11-29.

Magazine article Verini, James. "The Tunnels of Gaza." National Geographic Dec. 2012, pp. 673-674.

Newspaper article Hennigan, W. J. "FAA Grounds Entire Fleet of Boeing 787s." Los Angeles Times 17 Jan. 2013, p. A1.

Website “Contributing Factors and Prevention." National Eating Disorders Association, Accessed 17 Jan. 2013.

Blog post Kelly, Tamara. “Hookin on Hump Day #137: Link Party for the Yarny Arts.” Moogly, 17 Mar 2017, http:// www.mooglyblog.com/hohd-137/. Accessed 30 Mar. 2017.

Podcast “Lunar Interlude V: Reunion Tour – Part 2.” The Adventure Zone, episode 59, from Maximum Fun, 23 Mar 2017, http:// www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone.

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