In MLA style, sources are acknowledged
by short parenthetical notations in the text instead of numbered footnotes.
The parenthetical citation includes just enough information to clearly
point the reader to the complete information about the source in the Works
Cited list. The parenthetical usually includes the author's last name (if
an anonymous work, the first one or two words from the title), and the
page number cited. If you mention the author's name in the text, cite just
the page number in the parenthetical, i.e., (28).If
the entire work is being acknowledged, or ifthere
is no page or paragraph number (as in the case of many electronic works),
incorporate the author's name into the text instead of using a parenthetical.
If more than one work by an author is included in your list of Works Cited,
the parenthetical should include part of the title, i.e., (Nielsen, Hypertext
141).For more information, see your English textbook or Online! at http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html.
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Type of Entry
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Works Cited list
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Citation in Text
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Book - single author
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Nielsen, Jakob.
Hypertext
& Hypermedia.
Boston:
Academic Press Professional,
1993. |
(Nielsen 141)
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Book - more than
one author
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Gilbert, Sandra
M., and Susan Gubar. The
Madwoman
in the Attic. New Haven:
Yale UP, 1979. |
(Gilbert and Gubar
9)
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Work in an anthology
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Hooker, Thomas.
"A True Sight of Sin." The
American
Puritans: Their Prose and
Poetry. Ed. Perry Miller. New York: Columbia UP, 1982. 153-164. |
(Hooker 154)
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Newspaper article
(unsigned)
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"Give Georgia More
HOPE." Atlanta Journal-
Constitution
18 Dec. 1994: G6.
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("Give" G6)
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Magazine article
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Cowley, Geoffrey.
"I'd Toddle a Mile for a
Camel."
Newsweek
23 Dec. 1991:
70-71. |
(Cowley 70)
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Journal article
(continuous pagination)
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Levin, Richard.
"The Poetics and Politics of
Bardicide."
PMLA
105 (1990):
491-505. |
(Levin 498)
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Journal article
(issues paged separately)
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Snodgrass, Susan.
"The Rubbish Heap of
History."
Art
in America 88.5 (2000):
156-7. |
(Snodgrass 156)
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ONLINE SOURCES
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When
citing an online source, include the publication date as the first date
and the date you visited the site as the second date. Do not use
page numbers, but use text divisions where given. Put the URL in
tags <http:www.tags.com>
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(Herrington "Introduction").
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Article from an
online database
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Voss, Paul J. "Debris
from Heaven in Paradise
Lost."
English
Language Notes 35.3
(1998): 37-41. Academic Search Elite. GALILEO. U. of Georgia Lib., Athens. 25 July 2000 <http://www.galileo. peachnet.edu>. |
Mention
in your text, i.e.,
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Newspaper article
from online database
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Fletcher, Michael
A. "Study Finds Wide Racial
Disparity
in Death Penalty." Washington
Post 5 June 1998: A24. Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe. GALILEO. Waycross College Lib., Waycross. 25 July 2000. Path:News; General News. |
Mention
author's name in your text, i.e.,
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Anonymous article
from online reference database
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"Feather." Britannica
Online. Vers. 98.1.1. May
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"Feather"
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Article from a webpage
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Blume, Harvey. "Geek
Studies." Atlantic
Unbound
13 July 2000. 25 July 2000
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/ crosscurrents/cc2000-07-13.htm>. |
Mention
in your text, i.e.,
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Webpage
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Moody, Ellen. "Calendars
for Jane Austen's
Novels."
25 July 2000 <http://mason.
gmu.edu/~emoody/emcalendars.html>. |
mention
in your text, i.e.,
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Webpage within a
larger website
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Martin, Thomas R.
"An Overview of Classical
Greek
History from Homer to
Alexander." Perseus Project. Ed. Gregory R. Crane. 1999. Tufts U. 25 July 2000 <http://perseus. tufts.edu>. |
(Martin 4.8.IV)
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Online book published
independent of larger site
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James, Henry. The
Turn of the Screw. New York:
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(James V)
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