PRINT SOURCES
MLA7
Newspaper
Shoemaker, Will. “Pool’s Solar Plan Finally Sees the Light of Day.” Gunnison Country Times
5 Nov. 2009: A1+. Print.
Citation: (Shoemaker A1)
Magazine
Hirsh, Michael. “Wall Street’s Worry.” Newsweek 30 Nov. 2009: 12. Print.
Zimmer, Carl. “The Brain.” Discover Dec. 2009: 26-27. Print.
Citations: (Hirsh 12) (Zimmer 26)
Book
For two or three authors, list their names in the same order as given on the title page.
For more than three authors, you may list the first followed by et al. or you may list them all.
If the book is by an organization or corporation, use that as the author.
Use ed. comp. trans, for editor, compiler, or translator. For two or more use eds. comps, trans.
Dudley, William, ed. The 1960s. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2000. Print
Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston:
Little, Brown, 2002. Print.
Heaney, Seamus, trans. Beowulf. New York: Norton, 2000. Print.
Heath, Chip, and Dan Heath. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. New York:
Random, 2007. Print.
Mankiller, Wilma, et al. The Reader’s Companion to U. S. Women’s History. Boston: Houghton,
1998. Print.
The World of the American Indian. Washington: National Geographic, 1993. Print.
Citations: (Dudley 210) (Gladwell 79) (Heaney 384) (Heath and Heath 92) (Mankiller, et al. 283)
(World 410)
Reference Book (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.)
For widely know books list only article, title and edition. If the article is signed, give the author.
Biedermann, Hans. “Precious and Semiprecious Stones.” Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural
Icons and the Meanings behind Them. Trans. James Hulbert. New York: Meridan, 1992.
Print.
Gerdes, Dick. “Paz, Octavio.” World Book Encyclopedia. 2006 ed. Print.
“Inferiority Complex.” The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 43rd. ed.
2010. Print.
“Underwood, Carrie.” Current Biography. 2007 ed. Print.
Citations: (Biedermann 902) (Gerdes 356) (“Inferiority” 512) (“Underwood” 289)
Work in an Anthology (for essays, chapters, short stories, poems)
Include the pages of the selection after the date and before the medium (Print.)
Bewley, Marius. “Scott Fitzgerald’s Criticism of America.” Twentieth Century Interpretations of
The Great Gatsby: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Ernest H. Lockridge. Englewood
Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968. 37-53. Print.
O’Connor, Sandra Day. “Juveniles Should Not Be Exempt from the Death Penalty.” The Death
Penalty. Ed. Diane Andrews Henningfeld. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 133-141. Print.
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Pit and the Pendulum.” The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales.
New York: Signet, 1980. 132-146. Print.
Silverstein, Shel. “Peanut-Butter Sandwich.” Where the Sidewalk Ends. New York: Harper, 1974.
84-86. Print.
Citations: (Bewley 42) (O’Connor 136) (Poe 133) (Silverstein 85)
WEB SOURCE FOR THE ABOVE PRINT SOURCES
Publication in an Online Database (EBSCO)
Decide which of the publication types above describes your source. If page numbers are not present
use n. pag. Use the format above followed by
1. Title of the database in italics (Ebsco)
2. Medium (Web)
3. Date of access (day month year)
4. URL in carrots (<>). From Ebsco use the Persistent link to this record (Permalink) from the
bibliographic information.
WEB PUBLICATIONS
A Work Cited Only on the Web
1. Name of author, compiler, director, editor, narrator, performer, or translator
2. Title of work in quotation marks
3. Title of overall Web site italicized
4. Version or edition
5. Publisher or sponsor of the site; if not available use N. p.
6. Date of publication (day month year); if not available, use n. d.
7. Medium of publication (Web.)
8. Date of access (day month year)
9. URL inside carrots (<>)
The Associated Press. “Tiger Woods Says He Regrets 'Transgressions.'” NPR. National Public
Radio, 2 Dec. 2009. Web. 2 Dec. 2009. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.
php?storyId=121018293>.
“Best Ski Resorts: Crested Butte, Colorado.” Outside Online. Outside Magazine, Nov. 2009.
Web. 12 Dec. 2009. <http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200911/best-skiresorts-north-america-crested-butte.html>.
“J. K. Rowling.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 2 Dec. 2009.
<http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/511134/J-K-Rowling#ref=ref720715.
“Maplewood, New Jersey.” Map. Google Maps. Google, 15 May 2008. Web. 15 May 2008.
<http://maps.google.com/>.
Madonna. "Like a Prayer." YouTube.com. You Tube. 1989. Web. 5 Feb. 2008.
<http://youtube.com/watch?v=icrUKBaSefs>.
“Otto Ferdinand Leven.” Veterans History Project. Library of Congress, n.d. Web. 18 Sep. 2009.
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.49807/>.
Citations: (Associated) (“Best”) (“J. K. Rowling”) (“Maplewood”) (Madonna) (“Otto”)
A Work on the Web Cited with Print Publication Data
Follow MLA format for print publications and add numbers 3, 7, 8, and 9 above.
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Fairfield: 1st World, 2003. Google Books. Web. 15
May 2008. <http://books.google.com/books?id=JWAjm234VJcC&printsec=frontcover
&dq=subject:%22Literature%22&as_brr=3&rview=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false>.
Citation: (Dickens 42)
A Work on the Web Also Available in another Medium
If you are using a web source for a work that is also available in another medium (television,
radio, video, sound, art, cartoons, manuscripts, etc.), use the MLA format on this sheet or in the
book. Drop the original medium of publication (Print, Radio, etc.) and add
1. Title of the database or web site italicized
2. Medium of publication (Web)
3. Date of access (day month year)
4. URL in carrots (<>)
ADDITIONAL COMMON SOURCES
Television or Radio Broadcast
1. Title of episode or segment in quotation marks
2. Title of program or series in italics
3. Name of the network
4. Call letter and city of the local station
5. Broadcast date
6. Medium
“Harlem's Education Experiment Gone Right.” Narr. Ed Bradley. Sixty Minutes. CBS.
KCNC, Denver. 4 Dec. 2009. Television.
“Reading Practice Can Strengthen Brain 'Highways.'” Narr. Jon Hamilton. All Things
Considered. National Public Radio. KRCC, Colorado Springs. 12 Dec. 2009.
Radio.
Sound Recording
Beatles. Magical Mystery Tour. Apple, 1967. CD.
Film or Video Recording
Use title, director, distributor, year of release, and medium. Include original date of
release if the film has been rereleased on video or dvd.
Gandhi. Dir. Richard Attenborough. 1982. Columbia, 2001. Videocassette.
Plainsong. By Kent Haruf. 1998. Hallmark, 2004. DVD.
Interview
Murdie, Rick. Personal interview. 18 Sep. 2009.
Vandenbusche, Duane. Telephone interview. 22 Oct. 2009.
Lecture, Speech, Address, or Reading
Lanier, Carlotta Walls. “Legacy of the Little Rock Nine.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Lecture. Taylor Hall, Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado. 15 Jan. 2009.
Lecture.
Digital File (can exist independently from the Web such as pdf, mp3, jpeg)
Determine the kind of work you are citing (document, picture, sound) and use its MLA
format followed by the digital file format and the word file. (Microsoft Word file, PDF file.
JPEG file. MP3 file.)