BOOKS:

 

Author's name (last name first).  Title of the Book.  City of publication: 

Publisher,  year of publication.

 

            Single Author:

Kolata, Gina Bari.  Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead.  New York:

         Morrow,  1998.
 

            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.

 

            Translation:

            Homer.  The Odyssey.  Trans. Robert Fagles.  New York:  Viking, 1996.

 

            No Author:

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

 

 

MAGAZINE ARTICLES:

 

Author's name (last name first).  "Title of Article."  Title of Magazine  Date:  page

numbers. 

 

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 name (last name first).  "Title of Article."  Title of Newspaper  Date: page

            numbers.

 

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

                    31 May, 2002:  A1-2.

 

                                                                                                              

SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES:

 

Author's name (last name first).  "Title of the Article."  Title of Journal  Volume

number (year of publication): page numbers.

 

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

         Computers and the Humanities  25 (1991):  303-13.

 

                                                                                               

ARTICLES FROM ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND REFERENCE BOOKS:

 

Author's name (if given).  "Title of article."  Title of Encyclopedia or Reference

            Book.  City of Publication:  Publisher, date 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.

 

 

INTERVIEW THAT YOU CONDUCTED:

 

            Person interviewed (last name first).  Type of interview.  Date of interview.

 

            Jordan, Michael.  Personal interview.  1 Dec. 2000.

 

            Morrison, Toni.  Telephone interview.  15 Jan. 2002.

 

 

FOR ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES, REFER TO:

 

Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  5^th ed.  New York: 

         MLA, 1999.  (On reserve in the library)

 

"Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format."  Purdue University Online

         Writing Lab.  <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html>

 

 

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)