MLA Review Sheet
MLA Format
What is MLA?
The Modern Language Association (MLA) is a format style for
citation and has been used mostly within the liberal arts and
humanities, especially in writing on language and literature.
Books:
It is more concise and user-friendly than other styles due to its use
of brief parenthetical citations within the text; these citations then
associate to an alphabetical list within a Works Cited list at the end
of a paper/work.
Online Newspaper and Magazine Articles:
TRIO Quest activities encourages the use of the MLA format for
citation as it makes it easy to find sources for verification.
For more information on MLA, go to:
Author(s). Title of Book. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of
Publication. Print.
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Source. Publisher Day Month Year.
Print. Access Day Month Year.
Scholarly Journal Articles:
Example Print article
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal. Volume.Issue (Month Year):
pages. Print.
Example Online article
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal. Volume.Issue (Month Year):
n.pag. Web. Access Day Month Year.
http://www.mla.org/style - Modern Language Association
Web Sites:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ - Purdue’s MLA
Formatting and Style Guide
Author(s). Name of Web Page. Date of posting/revision. Name of
institution/corporation affiliated with the site. Web. Access Day Month
Year. <electronic address if needed for easy access>.
NOTE: MLA modified its Work Cited format style to take effect in April
2009. You can find these changes in MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers (7th edition).
Here are a few of the changes.

Titles are no longer underlined; italicize all titles

URL’s are no longer necessary for website citation UNLESS it
makes it easier to find the source
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EVERY ENTRY needs the medium of the publication listed; e.g.,
Print for hardcopy and Web for online information. Other
possibilities are DVD, TV, Performance, etc.
New Abbreviations for web source entries; e.g., N.p. for no
publisher, n.d. for no date, n.pag. for no pagination
Please check Purdue’s MLA site (listed above) for more information on
2009 changes.
Online Articles:
Author(s). "Article Title." Title of Resource. Date of publication/update/posting.
Web. Access Day Month Year <Electronic address if needed for easy
access>.
Television or Radio:
"Episode Title." Title of Program. Title of series. Name of network. Station call
letters, City. Broadcast Day Month Year.
Interviews:
Name of person interviewed. Type of interview. Print. Day Month Year.
Lecture or Speech:
Lecturer name. “Title of Lecture/Speech”. Organization/Department. Place of
lecture, City, State. Print. Day Month Year.
Photograph of Artwork:
Creator(s). Title of piece. Museum where original displayed, City. Title of book. By
book author if different. Publisher city: Publisher name. Date. Page.
Print.
Photo sharing:
Owner User Name. “Title of Photo”. Title of Source. Name of Source. Web. Day
Month Year accessed. <Elec address if needed for easy access>.
MLA Review Sheet
MLA In-Text Citation Guide http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
Author's name mentioned in text
Dover has expressed this concern (118-21).
Author's name not mentioned in text
This concern has been expressed (Dover 118-21).
Multiple authors of a work
This hypothesis (Bradley and Rogers 7) suggested
this theory (Sumner, Reichl, and Waugh 23).
Two locations
Williams alludes to this premise (136-39, 145).
Two works (articles) cited
(Burns 54; Thomas 327)
Two or three authors
More than three authors use all the authors' last names or just use the first
and "et al"
(AuthorA, AuthorB, and AuthorC 323)
(Bia, Pedreno, Small, Finch, Patterson 161)
(Bia et al. 161)
Corporate authors
(United Nations, Economic Commission for
Africa 51-63)
Works with no author
When a work has no author, use the work's title or a shortened version of the
title when citing it in text. (If abbreviating a title, omit initial articles and
begin with the word by which it is alphabetized in the Works Cited list.):
as stated by the presidential commission (Report
4).
Online source with numbered paragraphs
(Fox, pars. 4-5)