Citation Short Cuts
Hollidaysburg Area Junior High School
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s words or ideas as your own. You must use a citation for the source of every quote, every paraphrased
passage, and every summarized idea in your research paper or report if that idea belongs to someone else. A bibliography is a list of all the sources
you’ve used in your research paper, project, speech, etc. It gives credit to your sources. There are several styles for writing bibliographies. The style
we prefer is the MLA (Modern Language Association) style; it is used in our senior high as well as in college humanities and arts classes.
1. A book with one author:
Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History. New York: Walker, 2002. Print.
2. A book with two authors (Note regular order of second author’s name):
3. A book with three or more authors (et al. means “and others.”):
4. A magazine article:
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Plag, Ingo, et al. Introduction to English Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton: 2007. Print.
Weintraub, Arlene, and Laura Cohen. “A Thousand-Year Plan for Nuclear Waste.” Business Week 6 May 2002: 94-96. Print.
5. A special issue of a magazine:
6. A newspaper article:
Eggins, Suzanne, and Diana Slade. Analyzing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997. Print.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. Identities. Spec. Issue of Critical Inquiry 18.4 (1992): 625-884. Print.
McKay, Peter A. “Stocks Feel the Dollar’s Weight.” Wall Street Journal 4 Dec. 2006: C1+. Print.
A work in more than one volume (if using two or more volumes):
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Oxford Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Owen Dudley Edwards. 9 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Print.
If you’re using only one volume of the series:
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Oxford Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Owen Dudley Edwards. Vol. 8. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. 9 vols. Print.
Another example:
Magill, Frank N., ed. The Swiss Family Robinson. Masterplots. Vol. 11. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1976. 6363-6365. Print.
A book with only an editor listed:
Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, eds. “Robert Frost.” Twentieth Century Authors. New York: Wilson, 1942. 503-504. Print.
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8. A pamphlet:
Modern Language Association. Modern Language Association Announces New and Improved MLA Language Map. New York: MLA, 18 April 2006. Print.
9. An article in a reference book (if citing one specific definition among several):
10. An interview that you see on television:
11. An interview conducted by you:
“Noon.” Def. 4b. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. Print.
Wiesel, Elie. Interview by Ted Koppel. Nightline. ABC. WABC, New York. 18 Apr. 2002. Television.
Pei, I.M. Personal interview. 22 July 1993.
12. A periodical in an online database:
Langley, Michelle. “The Salem Witchcraft Trials.” Junior Scholastic 15 Sept. 2003: 14. Wilson Web. Web. 18 Sept. 2009. (The last date is the access date.)
13. A web site: Most entries usually contain the following elements (in order): name of author, editor, etc.; title of the work; title of the overall Web site; publisher or sponsor
of the site; date of posting to the Web; the word “Web” to show where information was found; date of access; the URL address. Each item is followed by a period except the
publisher or sponsor, which is followed by a comma. Find and cite as much information as you can.
Green, Joshua. “The Rove Presidency.” The Atlantic.com. Atlantic Monthly Group, Sept. 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.
“Hourly News Summary.” National Public Radio. Natl. Public Radio, 20 July 2007. Web. 20 July 2007.
Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. Lib. of Congress, 28 Sept. 2007. Web. 20 Nov. 2007. <http://www.blakearchive.org/Blake/>.
Committee on Scholarly Editions. “Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions.” Modern Language Association. MLA, 25 Sept. 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.
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Rules for the “Works Cited” page:
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Double-space each individual entry as well as between entries.
Align the first line of the entry with the left margin; all other lines for that entry are indented five spaces from the left margin.
Type the author’s last name first, with the last and first names separated by a comma (unless there are two or more authors). Omit titles such as “Dr.,” but if the writer
is a junior, do this: Rust, Arthur George, Jr.
Type titles’ full names and begin each important word with a capital letter.
Use underlines for the titles of book and periodicals (italics may be used if the teacher gives permission.)
Use quotation marks around article titles.
Type publication information after the titles. Cite the latest copyright if more than one is given; cite the first city listed if more than one is given.
Follow periods in an entry with two spaces.
Label the page Works Cited (upper and lower case, no underlining) at the top when you’re done.
Alphabetize the entries by the first item listed (author’s last name, if one is included, or the first important word in a title, for example—ignore “A,” “An,” or “The” in
alphabetizing titles.
Type date in day/month/year style: 12 May 2010 (with no commas).