citations in mla style
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MLA CITATION STYLE
Corrine Syster, MLIS
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GENERAL PAGE LAYOUT
1 Margins on all sides
Double Spaced ONLY
No Title Page Your Name
Instructors Name
Course Title
Date
Centered, Unformatted Title
Aligned Left First line of paragraphs indented by
Header
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THINGSTHATARENOTDEFAULTIN WORD
1 Margins on all sides
Double Spaced ONLY
No Title Page Your Name
Instructors Name
Course Title
Date
Centered, Unformatted Title
Aligned Left First line of paragraphs indented by
Header
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1 MARGINS
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DOUBLE SPACING ONLY
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SINCETHERESNOTITLEPAGE
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INDENT PARAGRAPHS
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HEADER PAGE NUMBER
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HEADERNAME
Just type it!
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WHERETOPUTCITATIONS
In-Text Citation
Appears within the text of the paper
Brief citation of quotes & paraphrases.
Points to specific sources in Works Cited list
Must match the works cited list
Works Cited list
Appears at the end
Lists all sources used
Full MLA citation
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IN-TEXT CITATIONS GENERAL RULES
Enclosed in parentheses ( )
Comes BEFORE the period
Generally Authors Last Name and page number
If named in signal phrase, leave out name No comma
No p. pg. pgs. or page
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IN-TEXT CITATIONS AUTHOR VARIATIONS
Two = (Crosby and Malkin 87)
Three = (Crosby, Malkin, and Fleury 87)
Four or More = (Crosby et al. 87)
Same Last Name = (S. Crosby 87) Book with No Author = (Penguins 87)
Article/Website with No Author = (Penguins 87)
Indirect Source = (qtd. in S. Crosby 87)
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IN-TEXT CITATIONS SOURCE VARIATIONS
Encyclopedia or Dictionary = (Penguins)
Multivolume Work = (Letang 1: 28)
Multiple Works = (Malkin 71; Letang 28; Crosby 87)
Anthology = (Crosby 71) Author of article, NOT the editor of the book
Legal Sources Well-known Source = (US Const., art. 1, sec. 2)
Legislative Acts = (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)
Court Cases = (Roe v. Wade)
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IN-TEXT CITATION EXAMPLES
Peck argues that video games are a better alternative to livewarfare training (12).
As it stands, the Nintendo Generation will learn to fight byplaying the Pentagon's equivalent of Halo 3 (Peck 12).
Research shows that students are more likely to suffer fromnarcolepsy during library instruction sessions (Library Facts).
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WORKS CITED CHARACTERISTICS
Starts on a New Page (Ctrl+ Enter)
Labeled as Works Cited (centered)
Complete citation
Listed Alphabetically Double Spaced
Hanging Indent
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COMMON CITATIONS WHERE & HOW
Accessed Physically in Print
Book
Newspaper Article
Magazine Article
Scholarly Journal Article
Accessed Online, Database or Web
Website
Newspaper Article
Magazine Article
Scholarly Journal Article
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BOOK TITLE PAGE
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BOOK
LastName, FirstName. Title: Subtitle. Publication City:
Publisher, Year Published. Medium of Publication.
Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses
Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control
Creativity. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. Print.
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NEWSPAPER IN PRINT
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MAGAZINE IN PRINT
20
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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE IN PRINT
LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Periodical Name Day
Month Year: Page Range. Medium.
Boyle, Anna Girl, 9, Raises Awareness at Birthday Party
Griffin Daily News 18 Dec. 2005: 1A+. Print.
Moritz, Brady Automation Infatuation. Processing Feb. 2006:
20. Print
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WEBSITES PRINT PREVIEW
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WEBSITES
LastName, FirstName. Title of Work. Name of Web Site. Day
Month Year published/updated. Publisher/Sponsor.
Medium. Day Month Year accessed.
Mayo Clinic Staff. Scoliosis MayoClinic.com.
MayoClinic.com 14 Dec. 2007. Mayo Foundation for Medical
Education and Research. Web. 16 July 2008.
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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE DATABASE
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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE DATABASE
LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Periodical Day Month
Year: Page-Range. Database Name. Medium. Date
accessed.
Hamilton, Anita and Yuki Oda. Wizard of Wii. Time 2
June 2008: 42-43.Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar.
2009.
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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE VIA WWW
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NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE VIA WWW
LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Newspaper Title Day Month Year
[Published]. Medium. Day Month Year [Accessed].
Miller, Dan. Help is Here: College Offers Tuition-Free Courses for Laid-Off
Workers Patriot-News [Harrisburg, PA] 24 March 2009. Web. 25 March
2009.
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NOTEABOUT URLS
URLs are NOT required
BUT if your professor says to do it, DO IT!!!
Search it in Google
Is it the first result?
Is it obvious? If not you might want to include the URL
If youre including the url
After Access Date
New line after / only Full URL
Its ok to use shorteners (ex. Bit.ly)
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WORKS CITED
Boyle, Anna Girl, 9, Raises Awareness at Birthday Party The Griffin Daily News. 18
Dec. 2005: 1A+. Print.
Hamilton, Anita and Yuki Oda. Wizard of Wii. Time 2 June 2008: 42-43.Academic
Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2009.
Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock
Down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. Print.
Mayo Clinic Staff. Scoliosis.MayoClinic.com 14 Dec. 2007. Mayo Foundation for
Medical Education and Research. Web. 16 July 2008.
Moritz, Brady Automation Infatuation. Processing. Feb. 2006: 20. Print.
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HOWTODOA HANGING INDENT
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FINDINGOUTHOWTOFORMATCITATIONS
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