MLA Documentation

The following abbreviated list of MLA style models for documenting sources is taken from a much longer resource found at:

NOTE: THIS BLOG WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO INDENT. HOWEVER, THE 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH LINES OF A CITATION MUST BE INDENTED!!!

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

If you need additional help, check the resource first, then check with your teacher.

Web site entry

Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site .

Web page on a web site

"Caret." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. 10 May 2006 .

"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. 10 May 2006 .

Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University Writing Lab. 12 May 2006 .

Article in a web magazine (as opposed to a scholarly journal)

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Online Publication. Date of Publication. Date of Access .

Article in an online scholarly journal (requires volume and issue numbers, plus paragraph numbers if they are available)

Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 33 pars. 8 May 2006 .

Article in a popular periodical (as opposed to a scholarly journal)

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages.

Article in a scholarly journal (adds volume and issue numbers and changes how the year of publication is presented)

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): pages.

Book with author

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Book with more than one author (reverse the name of the first listed author only; do not use titles such as Dr.; do include Jr., Sr., etc.)

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000.

Corporate or organizational author

American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. New York: Random, 1998.

Edited book

Hill, Charles A. and Marguerite Helmers, eds. Defining Visual Rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Work in an anthology or collection (begin with author’s name; do not reverse editor[s] names)

Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Pages.

No author provided: list and alphabetize by title of article/book.