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85 MLA STYLE: PAPER AND ONLINE
From the
MLA Handbook for Writers.
6th ed. New York: MLA, 2003 [REF LB2369.G53 2003]
Link to the
MLA
web site
http://www.mla.org.
For a more in depth treatment of online citing, see
MLA Works Cited: Website
and Database Sources
.
1) PAPER REFERENCES
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BOOK, ONE AUTHOR
MLA
5.6.1
Kaku, Michio. Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel
Universes, Time Warps and the Enth
Dimension.
New York: Oxford UP, 1994.
BOOK,
TWO OR THREE AUTHORS
MLA
5.6.4
Maddock, Richard C., and Richard L. Fulton. Marketing to the
Mind: Right Brain Strategies for
Advertising and Marketing.
Westport, CT: Quorum, 1996.
BOOK,
MORE THAN THREE AUTHORS
MLA
5.6.4
Gilman, Sandra, et al. Hysteria Beyond Freud.
Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
BOOK, AN EDITOR
MLA
5.6.2
Lopate, Philip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: an Anthology
from the Classical Era to the
Present.
New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994.
BOOK, CORPORATE AUTHOR
MLA
5.6.6
Public Agenda Foundation. The Health Care Crisis: Containing
Costs, Expanding Coverage. New York:
McGraw, 1992.
BOOK, AN EDITOR IN ADDITION TO AN AUTHOR
MLA 5.6.12
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F. W.
Robinson. Boston: Houghton, 1957.
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED SCHOLARLY ARTICLE REPRINTED IN A COLLECTION
OF ESSAYS
MLA
5.6.7
Frye, Northrop . "Literary and Linguistic Scholarship in a
Postliterate Age." PMLA 99 (1984):990-95.
Rpt. in Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974-88.
Ed. Robert D. Denham. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990.
18-27.
EXERPTED SOURCES FROM MULTIVOLUME CRITICAL ANTHOLOGIES
(includes Contemporary Literary Criticism,
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, etc.) MLA 5.6.7
Daches, David. "W. H. Auden: The Search for a Public". Poetry
54 (1939): 148-56. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism.
Ed. Robyn V. Young. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1991. 332-33.
BOOK
IN A SERIES
(like
Opposing Viewpoints, Taking Sides, and Contemporary
World Issues) MLA 5.6.16
Dupler, Doug. Energy: Shortage, Glut, or Enough.
Information Plus Reference Series. Detroit, Gale, 2001.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE
MLA
5.6.8
Gates, David M. "Astronomy." Encyclopedia
Americana.
1996 ed.
ARTICLE FROM A MAGAZINE
MLA 5.7.6
Simons, John. "Improbable Dreams." U. S. News and World Report
22 Mar. 1997: 4-7.
ARTICLE FROM A WEEKLY NEWS SERVICE
(such
as CQ Researcher or Issues and Controversies on File)
MLA 5.7.6
Jost, Kenneth. "Independent Counsels Re-examined." CQ
Researcher 7 May 1999: 377-84.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
MLA
5.7.5
Feder, Barnaby J. "For Job Seekers, a Toll-Free Gift of Expert
Advice." New York Times 22 Mar. 1994,
late ed.: A1+.
ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL WITH CONTINUOUS PAGINATION
MLA 5.7.1
Scotto, Peter. "Censorship, Reading, and Interpretation: A Case
Study from the Soviet Union."
PMLA
109 (1994): 61-70.
ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL THAT PAGES EACH ISSUE SEPARATELY
MLA
5.7.2
Hallin, Daniel C. "Sound Bite News: Television Coverage of
Elections, 1968-1988." Journal of
Communication
42.2 (1992): 5-24.
2) WEB SITES [MLA
5.9.1.-5.9.4]
NO AUTHOR
MLA 5.9.2
Dutch Recipes.
9 Jun. 1998. 16 Sept. 2003 <http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/verona/190/eten.htm>.
AUTHOR,
NO DATE
MLA 5.9.1
Dawe, James. The Jane Austen Page. 16 Sept. 2003 <http://jamesdawe.com/austen.html>.
ONLINE PERIODICAL
MLA 5.9.4. a-b
Majid, Anouar. "Living with Ismam." The Chronicle of Higher
Education 14 Mar. 2003. 27 Oct. 2003.
<http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v49/i27/27b01001.htm>.
ONLINE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION
MLA 5.9.3d
United States. Dept. of Justice, Natl. Inst. of Justice.
Prosecuting Gangs: A National Assessment.
By Claire Johnson, Barbara Webster, and Edward Connors.
Feb. 1995. 20 Oct. 2003
<http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/pgang.txt>.
DATABASES [MLA
5.9.7]
PROQUEST
MLA 5.9.7
If periodical is a scholarly journal such as Lancet,
instead of date, use volume no.
Lichtblau, Eric. “Administration Plans Defense of Terror Law.”
New York Times 19 Aug. 2003, late ed.
(East Coast): A-1. ProQuest. ProQuest Direct.
Kingwood Coll. Lib., Kingwood. 15 Sept. 2003
< http://www.proquest.com >.
EBSCOHOST
(includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source
Premier, Health Source)
MLA 5.9.7
"Diabetes Increases Risk for Caesarean Delivery." Nutrition
Research Newsletter Oct. 1999: 6-7.
Health Source.
Ebscohost. Kingwood Coll. Lib., Kingwood. 27 Oct. 2003
<http://www.epnet.com>.
LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER
MLA 5.9.7
Colmer, John. "E. M. Forster: Overview." Reference Guide to
English Literature. 2nd ed. Ed. D. L.
Kirkpatrick. 2nd ed. St. James P, 1991. Reproduced in
Literature Resource Center.
Gale Group. Kingwood Coll.
Lib., Kingwood. 18 Oct. 2003 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.
Grieder, Josephine. "Orthodox and Paradox: The Structure of 'Candide.'
" French Review 57.4 (1984):
485-92.
Literature Resource Center.
Gale Group. Kingwood Coll. Lib., Kingwood. 23 Oct. 2003
<http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.
NETLIBRARY
MLA 5.9.7
Burner, Eric. And Gently He Shall Lead Them. New York: NYU
P, 1994.
Kingwood Coll. Lib., Kingwood. 27 Oct. 2003
<http://www.netlibrary.com>.
ONLINE WEEKLY NEWS SERVICE
(includes CQ Researcher and Issues & Controversies on
File)
MLA 5.9.7
Bettelheim, Adriel. "Public Broadcasting: Should the Government
Subsidies Continue." CQ Researcher
29 Oct. 1999: 929-52. CQ Researcher. Congressional
Quarterly. Kingwood Coll. Lib., Kingwood.
18
Oct. 2003 <http://library.cqpress.com>.
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