The Works Cited page is arranged alphabetically by the author’s last name (or title, if no author)
MLA guidelines require double spacing.
Ency.
Books
Sample Citation Formats
Adams, Don. “Agents in Korea.” The Associated Press 5 Feb. 1955. The Eisenhower Years, 1952-1960.
Danbury: Grolier, 1995. 32-34. Print.
20th Century
America
Baker, Ray Stannard. “Ignorance is the Real Enemy.” Ordinary Americans. Ed. Linda R. Monk.
Alexandria: Close Up, 1994. 150-1. Print.
work in an
anthology -editor
Cash, Jay. “Sports Centered.” The Prose Reader. Comp. Kim Flachmann and Michael Flachmann. 7 th ed.
Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 2005. 241-247. Print.
work in an
anthologycompiler
The College Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam, 1976. Print.
no author
Dawes, Tim, Jr. Tech Time. Flemington: Central, 1997. Print.
one author
Deed, Patricia, and Marc Southern. Software Basics. New York: Post, 2002. Print.
two authors
Dew, John, et al. Myths Revisited. New York: Viking, 1992. Print.
three or more
authors
“Donuts.” Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 2006. Grolier. Web. 17 Nov. 2006.
online
Dundes, Alan. “Myth: Myths of the Beginning and of the End.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. 15th ed. 1970.
Print.
print
Golombok, Susan, and Robyn Fivush. "Gender is Determined Biologically and Socially." Opposing
Viewpoints: Human Sexuality. Ed. Brenda Stalcup. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1995. Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center. Web. 10 Dec. 2006.
Opposing
Viewpoints
(for sources from
book series)
Contemporary
Literary Criticism
Print
Periodicals
Electronic Databases including Periodicals
Grant, William E. "Nathaniel Hawthorne." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale. Web. 10 Nov. 2006.
Helms, John. “Acid Rain.” Weather Encyclopedia. New York: Facts On File, 2002. Science Online. Facts on
File. Web. 16 Nov. 2006.
Facts on File
"Ivy Tunnel Opens to Public." Facts On File World News Digest 14 May 1994. World News Digest. Web. 22
Nov. 2006.
"Japan." CountryWatch. CountryWatch, 2006. Web. 16 Nov. 2006.
Facts on File
"Japanese Internment Camps." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2006. Web. 13 Nov. 2006.
ABC-CLIO
Jones, Tom. "Romance." American Essays. Ed. Bob Smith. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. New York: Random House,
1998. Literary Reference Center. Web. 12 Nov. 2006.
Kean, John. "Natural Spring Water." New York Times 16 May 1999, late ed. Historical Newspapers. Web. 16
Nov. 2006.
Kotten, Howard. “West Africa: Fair Employment.” Harvard Business Review May/June 1989: 145+.
MasterFILE Premier. Web. 12 Nov. 2006. (Note: The database title is found in the article’s citation
record)
Literary Reference
Center
Historical NY
Times
Kraus, Glen. "Teen-age Gambling." Seventeen June 1981: 136-40. SIRS. Web. 10 Nov. 2006.
ProQuest, SIRS
Kwick, Alice. “Reading Essentials: Proven Strategies.” Journal of Reading 13 (2001): 19-29. JSTOR.
Web. 5 Oct. 2006.
JSTOR
Larson, S. “Summit at the U.N.” New York Times 16 Nov. 2006, late edition: A1+. Print.
newspaper
Massaro, Thomas. “A Welfare Primer.” American Heritage June 1996: 16-19. Print.
magazine
World News Digest
CountryWatch
on-line/full-text
EBSCO
Websites
Shakespeare’s Life. Folger Shakespeare Library. 2007. Web. 16 July 2008.
website with
sponsoring agency
Sherman, Amy. "All about Chutney." Cooking with Amy: A Food Blog. 30 Mar. 2005. Web. 12 Nov. 2006.
website/weblog
(author)
online periodical
online book
Swanson, Sue. “Fabulous Flemington.” Star Ledger 1 Nov. 2007. Web. 15 Dec. 2008.
Other
Ebooks
Tanner, Robert. History of Doors. New York: Harper, 1999. Rutgers Books Online. 2003. Web. 13 Nov. 2006.
Notes:
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Topper, Jon. "Literature." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Ed. Jeffrey Lehman. 2nd ed. Vol. 2.
Detroit: Gale, 2000. 107-09. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 17 Nov. 2006.
Trevino, Marcella B. "Duran Duran." The Eighties in America. 1st ed. Salem. Salem History. Web. 15 June
2009.
Tyler, Cecilia. “Roots of Psychology.” Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Flemington. 18 May 2008.
Lecture.
Gale Virtual
Reference Library
Salem History
Underwood, Carrie. “Last Name.” Carnival Ride. Arista, 2007. CD.
sound recording
United States. Dept. of Labor. Child Labor Laws. Washington: GPO, 1997. Print.
government pub.
Van Gogh, Vincent. Irises. 1890. Oil on Canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Web. 4 Aug.
2008.
images
Versailles Garden. N. d. Evasion. Web. 14 Jun. 2009. http://wwwevasion.imag.fr/Membres/Laks.Raghupathi/digi/paris_small/19.html. (Note: Include URL when there
may not be enough information to find a picture on the web)
Victor, Scott. “HC Devils.” Hunterdon Central Chronicles. WCVH, Flemington. 5 May 2008. Web. 20
June 2008.
Picture from web
“Wall-E.” Pixar. 18 Dec. 2007. YouTube. Web. 22 July 2008.
YouTube
Washington, DC. Chicago: Tour Guides, 2008. Print.
pamphlet
Wasserman, Eric. Personal interview. 18 Nov. 2006.
interview
West, Adam. “Bats at Night.” Message to Burt Ward. 18 Nov. 2006. E-mail.
personal e-mail
Woods, Jim. “Dream Questionnaire.” Hunterdon Central Regional High School: Flemington, 1997. Survey.
survey
West Side Story. Dir. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. 1961. MGM, 2003. DVD.
video recording
lecture
podcasts
For citations with multiple authors, follow the formats used for books.
If a source is missing an author, copyright date, etc., skip that portion and move on to the next item in the citation.
The date at the end of the on-line citations indicates when the resource was accessed.
Missing a format? Try http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s2.html or
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html.
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All citations must be double-spaced. Here is the “break down” of some of the citation formats:
~ Book – One Author ~
Author, last
name, first
name
Place of
Publication
Title
Publisher
Copyright
Date
Dawes, Tim. Tech Time. Flemington: Central, 1997. Print.
Publication Medium
~ Facts on File ~
Author of
Article, if any
Title of
Entry/Section
Original
Publication Place
Title of
Original
Source
Original
Publisher
Database
Name
Publication Medium
Helms, John. “Acid Rain.” Weather Encyclopedia. New York: Facts on File, 2002. Science Online, Facts on File. Web. 16 Nov. 2006.
Database
Company
Original
Copyright Date
Date of Posting
Date of Access
~ Video from a Website ~
“Wall-E.” Pixar. 18 Dec. 2007. YouTube. Web. 22 July 2008.
Title
Distributor
If a director or creator is given,
place that information between
the TITLE and DISTRIBUTOR.
Date of Access
Name of
Website
Publication
Medium
~ Periodical – in Print ~
Title of
Article
Author or
authors
Publication
Date
Title of
Magazine
Massaro, Thomas. “A Welfare Primer.” American Heritage 14 June 1996: 16-19. Print.
Page
numbers
Publication
Medium
~ Periodical – Subscription Database ~
Author of
Article, if any
Title of
Original Source
Title of
Article
Original
Publication
Date
Original
Page #s
Kotten, Howard. “West Africa: Fair Employment.” Harvard Business Review May/June 1989: 145+. MasterFILE Premier.
Web. 12 Nov. 2006.
Publication
Medium
Database
name
Date of
Access
~ Website ~
Author of
Article/Section
Title of
Article/Section
Title of
Website
Last updated
/ Copyright
Date of Access
Sherman, Amy. "All about Chutney." Cooking with Amy: A Food Blog. 30 Mar. 2005. Web. 12 Nov. 2006.
Publication Medium
MLA Parenthetical Citation Formats
The following are a few examples of parenthetical citation formats. For more detailed information, consult the MLA Handbook (6th
edition) located on our bookshelves at 808.02 GIB. Please note: When using online resources, page numbers are omitted from the
parenthetical citation.
*When you omit the author’s name in your sentence:
One research has found that dreams move backward in time as the night progresses (Dement 71).
*When you mention the author’s name in your sentence:
Freud states that “a dream is the fulfillment of a wish” (154).
When you use a website and mention the author’s name, OMIT the page number:
Smith states that “we are all individuals, similar but different.”
*When you cite more than one work by the same author:
One current theory emphasizes the principle that dreams express “profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes, “Sleep” 184). But
investigation shows that young children’s dreams are “rather simple and unemotional” (Foulkes, “Dreams” 78).
*When the work has two or three authors:
Psychologists hold that no two children are alike (Gesell and Smith 68).
*When the work has more than three authors:
(Rosenberg et al. 14)
*When the work has no author, begin with the word by which the title is alphabetized in the Works Cited:
Random testing for use of steroids by athletes is facing strong opposition by owners of several of these teams (“Steroids” 22).
When you quote or paraphrase a quotation from a book or article that appeared somewhere else:
Bacon observed that “it is hardly possible at once to admire an author and to go beyond him” (qtd. in Guibroy 113).
When you cite a personal interview:
“Drinking milk made me a better person,” stated the artist (Vanilli).
(Note: If you mention the name of your interview subject in your text, no parenthetical citation is necessary.)
When you are citing several sources for a single passage:
There are negative implications to computerizing commercial art (Parker 2; “Art Nonsense” 43).
When you cite a character in a literary work:
Chai explains, “I reached out and smoothed out the frown lines on his forehead” (Pan 105).
When you cite a long quotation (five lines or more) that is set off from the text (Note that the quote is indented, double spaced,
and without quotation marks):
No one is really certain about the origins of the term “Dust Bowl”:
H.L. Mencken in a footnote to the first supplement (1945) to his monumental The American
Language traces the term...to an Associated Press dispatch sent by staff writer Robert Geiger on
April 15, 1935. (French 3)
When you paraphrase a whole passage or several passages, begin your citation with the author’s or article’s name and end it
with the page number:
According to Brown, everytime you read an essay, you are preparing to write one. Therefore, you should pay careful attention to content
and form (9).
When quoting from a website, use author (same format as print citation) or, if no author, title. Include page number, if given.
To identify the source of a quotation, paraphrase, or summary, place the author's last name in parentheses after the cited material (Harnack
and Kleppinger).
*These examples have been borrowed (with permission) from Chico High School Library (CA) and the Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab.