Citing Print Sources: MLA Format  

  

BOOKS:

 

Author(s) (last name first).  Title of Book.  City of Publication:  Publisher, year of publication.

 

Single Author:
Kolata, Gina Bari.  Cloning.  New York:  Morrow, 2000.

 

Multiple Authors:

Paoletti, John, and Gary M. Radki.  Art in Renaissance Italy.  San Diego:  Lucent, 1998.

           

Editor:
Williams, Mary E., ed.  The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints.  San Diego:  Greenhaven, 2002.

 

No Author:

Atlas of Central America and the Caribbean.  New York:  Macmillan, 1992.

 

Authored Article in an Edited Collection or Work:

Lindahl, Carl.  “Chaucer and the Shape of Performance.”  Critical Essays on Geoffrey Chaucer.  Ed. Thomas Stillinger. 

 

            New York:  G.K. Hall, 1998.  11-29.

           

MAGAZINE ARTICLES:

 

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

Armor, Larry.  "The Learning Revolution."  Business Week  28 Feb. 1994:  80-88.

No Author:
Domestic Violence."  Psychology Today  Nov. - Dec. 1993:  48-52.

 

 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:

 

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

 

Barry, Dan.  "Where Twin Towers Stood, a Silent Goodbye."  New York Times 

 

            31 May 2002:  A1-2.                                                                                         

 

  

SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES:

 

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

Craner, Paul M.  "New Tool for an Ancient Art: The Computer and Music."
 

Computers and the Humanities  25.3 (1991):  303-13.

                                                                       

ARTICLES FROM ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND REFERENCE BOOKS:

 

Author(s) (if given).  "Title of Article."  Title of Encyclopedia or Reference Book

 

            City of Publication:  Publisher, year of publication.

Lewis, David Levering.  "Harlem Renaissance."  Encyclopedia of African-

 

            American Culture and History.  New York:  Macmillan, 1996. 

"The Tragic Downfall of Blanche DuBois."  Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named
 

            Desire.  Ed. Harold Bloom.  New York:  Chelsea House, 1988.

 

FOR ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES, REFER TO:


Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  6th ed.  New York: 
 

            MLA, 2003.   (On reserve in the library)

"MLA Formatting and Style Guide."  The Purdue Online Writing Lab.

 

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

 

INTERVIEW THAT YOU CONDUCTED:

 

Person interviewed.  Type of interview.  Date of interview.

 

            Jordan, Michael.  Personal interview.  1 Sep. 2007.

 

            Clinton, Hillary.  Telephone interview.  15 Jan. 2007.

 

PARENTHETICAL NOTATION:

(Author’s last name or “first few words” of title followed by page number)

 

            One Author:                          (Kolata 206)

            Multiple Authors:                 (Paoletti and Radki 311)

            No Author:                            (“Atlas of African” 45)

                                                                                                                                                C. Clark  9/2009