Pennfield IMC
Citation Guidelines
General Information and Instructions:
1. Your document should use the font and pitch your instructor requires usually, Times New
Roman or Arial (12pt.) and Double-spaced.
2. The bold typing in the following guidelines indicates the punctuation you should use when
completing your citations.
3. Information that is not in bold typing must be added by you.
4. When using information reprinted on a database determine the original source material then
add the database information.
5. Any information that is not provided in your source should be skipped.
6. Use the complete web address on the source cards only do not include in your works cited.
7. You may need to check several additional pages to locate all of the information for a website.
8. Use Italics when typing, but you may underline if handwriting your source cards
Basic MLA 7th edition Citations; these citations are provided as a general order of the citation. For
specific types of print or internet sources see the attached examples.
MLA 7th edition Handbook is available in the Pennfield IMC for overnight checkouts.
Worksheets are also attached and additional copies available for student use, please see the
Librarian if you need any assistance.
Print
Author’s Last Name, First Name Middle initial. “Title of article”. Title of Book/Magazine/ Journal.
Publication Information, Copyright(: or .) Page #’s. Print.
Online / Internet
Database:
Author’s Last Name, First Name Middle initial. “Title of article”. Title of Book/Magazine/ Journal.
Publication Information, Copyright(: or .) Page #’s. Name of Database. Web. Date you
viewed it day month year.
Website:
Author’s Last Name, First Name Middle initial. “Title of webpage”. Title of Website. Publisher,
Date of Publication day month year. Web. Date you viewed it day month year.
Revised 6/20/2016
Parts of a Website
To locate all of the information for your citation you may need to look on the home page for the site
Author
Website Title
Webpage Title
Revised 6/20/2016
Usually the Website
date is located at
the bottom, if it is
not available skip it
The URL for this Website is:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031009041802/www.eden.rutgers.edu/~sirak/uscwcc/recipes.html
The MLA Citation would be:
Sirak, Jennifer. “Civil War Recipes”. U.S. Civil War Curriculum Connection of New Jersey. Web. 14
Dec. 2009.
Revised 6/20/2016