MLA Citation

MLA Citation: Remember that the goal of citation is to guide your reader to your sources. Always give more information if you are in doubt. Just keep in mind--what would Dr. Pearson need to find this text? It's a treasure map to knowledge.

Books

SINGLE AUTHOR

Reynolds, George Fullmer. The Staging of Elizabethan Plays at the Red Bull Theater 1605-1625. New York: Modern Language Association, 1940. Print.

In-text citation would be something like (Reynolds 20)

EDITED

More, Sir Thomas. Utopia. Ed. Robert M. Adams. New York: Norton and Company, 1992. Print.

In-text citation: (More 3)

Articles

IN A JOURNAL:

Gillies, William. "An Early Modern Irish 'Harrowing of Hell.'" Celtica 13 (1980): 32-55. Print.

In-text citation: (Gillies 45)

IN A BOOK:

Butterworth, Philip. "Hellfire: Flame as Special Effect." The Iconography of Hell. 67-101. Kalamazoo: Medieval Inst. Pubs., Western Michigan Univ, 1992. Print.

In-text: (Butterworth 66)

Work in an Anthology

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Wife of Bath's Tale." Canterbury Tales. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. 8^th ed. New York: Norton, 2006. 226-234.

[LOOK AT THE "HANGING INDENT" ON THIS CITATION! THIS IS HOW YOU INDENT WORKS CITED ENTRIES!]

In-text: (Chaucer 229) OR use line numbers (Chaucer ll. 23-29).

Websites - Newest MLA doesn't require URLs,

but you are welcome to include them at the end of the citation if you desire.

WORK FROM DATABASE:

Johnson, Kirk. "The Mountain Lions of Michigan." Endangered Species Update 19.2

(2002): 27-31. Expanded Academic Index. Web. 26 Nov. 2008.

In-text: (Johnson 30) [if there are page numbers; if there are not, use paragraph numbers!] (Johnson par. 45).

WEBSITE:

"Living Old." Frontline. PBS Online, 21 Nov. 2006. Web. 19 Jan. 2009.

In-text ("Living").

ONLINE NEWSPAPER:

Rubin, Joel. "Report Faults Charter School." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan.

2005. Web. 24 Jan. 2009.

In-text: (Rubin par. 4) [use paragraph numbers]