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Guide to MLA Citation

CITING ONLINE SOURCES

Format for magazine and newspaper articles from school sponsored databases:

Author of article (if provided). “Title of article.” Name of magazine/newspaper Date of publication (day mon. year), edition or section (if provided): pages (if provided). Name of database. Name of database provider. Fulton High School Lib., Knoxville, TN. Access date (day mon. year) .

Graphics from any database:

“Ethiopia.” Map. Rand McNally Maps. 1996. Student Edition. Gale Group Databases. Fulton High School Lib., Knoxville, TN. 29 Jan. 2003 http://www.infotrac.galegroup.com>.

Other World Wide Web Sites:

A page within a web site:

Creator or author (if provided). “Title of page.” Name of site. Date of page or site (if provided—day mon. year). Date of access (day mon. year) .

Ours, Robert M. “Introduction: A Brief History of College Football.” College Football Encyclopedia. 2003. 30 May 2003 .

“Privacy Protection in Other Countries.” Media Awareness Network. Nov. 1999. 2 Dec. 2003 .

An edu site:

Creator or author of page (if provided). “Title of page.” Name of site. Editor of site (if provided). Date of site (if provided—day mon. year). Name of educational organization. Date of access (day mon. year) .

Devitt, Terry. “Flying High.” The Why Files. 9 Dec. 1999. University of Wisconsin, Board of Regents. 4 Jan. 2000 .

An org site:

“Media Giants.” The Merchants of Cool. 2001. PBS Online. 7 Mar. 2003 .

United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Values and Functions of Wetlands. 25 May 2002. 6 June 2002 .

Gradson, James. “Life in Ancient Egypt.” 1998. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 17 May 2002 .

A personal web page:

Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 Feb. 2001 .

Tice-Deering, Beverly. English as a Second Language. 15 Sept. 2002 .

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Some General Rules:

1. Abbreviate all months except for May, June and July.
2. Each citation line, after the first, should be indented three spaces.
3. When including parenthetical references in the text, works should be cited just like printed works. For any type of source, you must include information in your text that directs readers to the correct entry in the works-cited list. Omit page numbers from your parenthetical references if your source lacks fixed page numbers. For a Web document, the page numbers of a printout should not be cited, because the pagination may vary in different printouts

CD-ROM

Program developed by producer

Kennedy, John F. Encarta 95. CD-ROM. Chicago: Microsoft, 1992-94 ed. (Note: Encarta is a general encyclopedia in a CD-ROM format.)

BOOKS

One author

Anderson, Virgil A. Training the Speaking Voice. New York: Oxford UP, 1957.

Two authors

Harvey, George F., and Jack Hems. Freshwater Tropical Aquarium Fish. London: Batchworth, l952.

Three authors

Hoffman, Frederick, Ken Donelson, and Bill Boal. Seeing and Communicating. New York: Scribner's, l962.

More than three authors

McConnell, Frances, et al. Creative Intelligence and Modern Life. Boulder: U of Colorado P, l967.

Corporate author

Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Guide to Foreign Information Sources. Washington: Foreign Commerce Dept., l970.

No author's name given

Webster's Biographical Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam, l96l.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York: Newspaper Enterprise, 1988 ed.

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Edition after the first

Giniger, Henry. World of Opera. 2nd ed. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, l959.

Translation

Duverger, Maurice. Political Parties. Trans. Robert North. New York: Wiley, l954.

Editors

Galbraith, John K., and Samuel E. Morison, eds. Oxford History of the American People. New York: Oxford UP, l965.

Novel, story, poem, play, essay in an anthology or collected work

Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Great American Plays. Eds. Barrett H. Clark and Maxim Lieber. New York: World, l925. 676-732.
(NOTE: A novel or play will be underlined.)

Sandburg, Carl. "The Windy City." Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Rev. ed. New York: Harcourt, l970. 271.
(NOTE: A short story, poem, or essay will be in quotation marks.)

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Work in two or more volumes which make up a complete set

Trent, William Peterfield, et al., eds. Cambridge History of American Literature. 3 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1917. 2: 276-78.

Cumulative work or one which continues to add new volumes (CLC, TCLC, AITN)

Riley, Carolyn, ed. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1973.

Separately titled volume in a multivolume work with a general title and editor

Lidz, Richard, and Linda Perrin, eds. Transportation. Vol. 2 of Career Information Center. 6th ed. 13 vols.New York: Macmillan, 1996.

Durant, Will. The Age of Faith. Vol. 4 of The Story of Civilization. 11 vols. New York: Simon, l950.

Work in a series

Bailey, Ronald. The Air War in Europe. Time-Life World War II Series. Ed. Hedley Donovan. Alexandria: Time, l979.

Moss, Leonard. "The Perspective of a Playwright." Arthur Miller. Modern Critical Views Series. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, l987.

Ringe, Donald A. James Fenimore Cooper. Twayne's United States Author Series 11. Ed. Sylvia Bowman. New York: Twayne, l962.

Author and editor

Prescott, William Hickling. History of the Reign of Philip the Second. Ed. John Foster Kirk. 3 vols. Philadelphia: Lippincott, l948. 1: 52-59.

Chapter by one author in a work edited by another

Tillich, Paul. "Being and Love." Moral Principles of Action. Ed. Ruth Anshen. New York: Harper, l952.

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Signed article in a specialized encyclopedia or reference work (NOT A GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIA)

Kimball, Jeffrey. "War with Mexico." Great Events from History: American Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. 3 vols. Englewood Cliffs: Salem, 1975. 2: 825-30.

Solomon, Eric. "Robert Benchley." American Humorists, 1800-1950. Ed. Stanley Trachtenberg. Vol. 11 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1982.

Introduction, preface, foreword, afterword

Smith, Henry Nash. Introduction. The Prairie: A Tale. By James Fenimore Cooper. New York: Holt, l950. iv-vii.

Book with a title within its title

Shelley, Louise. Interpretations of Willa Cather's "Paul's Case." New York: Barnes, l985.
(short story or poem title included in book title)

James, Harvey. A Study of Conrad Richter's Sea of Grass and Light in the Forest. New York: Bantam, l987.
(novel or play title included in book title)

The Bible

The Bible. Revised Standard Version.

No publishing date given

Woolf, Leonard. Beginning Again. London: Hogarth, n.d.

No publisher given

Wren, James T. American Literature. Wheaton: n.p., 1978.

No place of publication given

Haley, Virginia. Impressionism. N.p.: Rizzoli, 1982.

If you cannot find a model entry for the book you are citing, arrange the information in the following order:

1. author's name
2. title of the part of the book
3. title of the book
4. name of the editor of the book
5. edition used (after the first)
6. number of volumes
7. name of the series (followed by series editor)
8. place of publication, name of publisher, and date of publication
9. volume and page numbers used

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MAGAZINES (MONTHLY OR WEEKLY)

Signed article

Menard, Henry W. "Will Credit Medicine Be Enough?" Scientific American Aug. l963: 26-28.

Unsigned article

"Crisis in the Falklands." Newsweek 28 Apr. 1982: 15-17.

Book review

Wolfe, Alan. "Turning Economics to Dust." Rev. of Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, by Milton and Rose Friedman. Saturday Review 2 Feb. l980: 35-36.

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SCHOLARLY JOURNALS WHICH SPECIALIZE IN A PARTICULAR ACADEMIC AREA

An article in a journal with continuous pagination

Hennessy, Rosemary. "Katherine Anne Porter's Model for Heroines." Colorado Quarterly 25 (l977): 301-15.

An article in a journal that pages each issue separately

Hess, Stephen. "Big Bill Taft." American Heritage 27.6 (l966): 32-37.
(Note: 27.6 refers to volume 27 and issue 6.)

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GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS (such as World Book)

strong>Signed article

Lee, Edwin A. "Vocational Education." Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia.1975 ed.
(Note: The subtitles Macropaedia and Micropaedia are used only with Encyclopaedia Britannica.)

Unsigned article

"Jackson, Andrew." Encyclopedia Americana. 1978 ed.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Signed article

Salisbury, Harrison E. "Farm Goals Cited by Soviet Official." Knoxville News-Sentinel 24 Aug. l979: 4.

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BULLETINS, PAMPHLETS, AND REPORTS

Bulletins

Cynicism and Pessimism in Robert Frost's Poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica Library Research Service Bulletin. Chicago: EB, n.d.

United States. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook. Scottsdale: Associated Books, 1988-89 ed.

Reports

Pease, Marcus. Housing for Retired Persons. Report to the Mayor's Committee. St. Louis: Office of the Mayor, l958.

Pamphlets

West, Paul. Robert Penn Warren. University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers No. 44. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1964.

Interior Designers and Decorators. SRA Occupational Brief No. 8. Chicago: SRA, 1974.

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OTHER MEDIA SOURCES

Videocassette or audiotape

Theatercraft. Videocassette. Elements of Literature Video Series. NewYork: Holt, 1989. 20 min.

Television or radio program

The Cosby Show. NBC. WBIR, Knoxville. 6 July 1989.

Interviews

Hemingway, Ernest. Personal interview. 25 May l960.

Micropublications

Document a book or periodical photographically reproduced in miniature form as though the work were in its original form, and identify the medium (microfiche, microfilm, microcard) after the title.

Allen, Raymond. "Hemingway's Heroes." Microfiche. New York Times 21 Apr. 1962: 12.

(Note: The frame number is given in place of a page number on microfiche. The call number will be MIC followed by the notebook number and the microfiche sheet number.)
Example: MIC 3:28

Accountant. Microfiche. Information Needed for Occupational Entry Series. Knoxville: UT College of Ed., Dept. of Technological and Adult Ed., l986.

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