MLA CITATION GUIDE for print and multimedia sources
Please check the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed., 2009, R808 M685)
for more complete information. (Numbers in boxes refer to MLA Handbook sections.Notes
quote Handbook at the pages in brackets.)
BOOK;
Single author
5.5.2
BOOK:
Two or more
Author/editors
5.5.4
Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History. New York: Walker, 2002. Print.
Broer, Lawrence R., and Gloria Holland. Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and
the Female Voice. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2002. Print.
Rabkin, Eric S., Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. No Place Else:
Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois UP, 1983. Print.
Note: If there are more than three authors, you may name only the first and add et al. (“and others”), or you
may give all names in full in the order in which they appear on the title page. [p155]
BOOK:
Anonymous
Author
5.5.9
BOOK:
Corporate
Author
5.5.5
New York Public Library American History Desk Reference. New York: Macmillan,
1997. Print.
National Research Council. Science, Medicine, and Animals: A Circle of Discovery.
Washington: Natl. Acad., 2004. Print.
Note: Use standard abreviations whenever possible [for publishers’ name].[p248]
BOOK:
Government
Publication
5.5.20
United Nations. Conference on Trade and Development. The Least Developed
BOOK:
Anthology
5.5.3
Burns, Kate, ed. Rap Music and Culture. Detroit: Greenhaven-Gale, 2008. Print.
Countries: Report 2006. Geneva: United Nations, 2006. Print.
Note: If an imprint appears on a title page along with the publisher’s name, state the imprint and follow it by a
hyphen and the name of the publisher (“Anchor-Doubleday,” “Collier-Macmillan,” “Vintage-Random.” [p173]
ARTICLE:
In anthology
5.5.6
Piatak, Tom. “Outsourcing Threatens American Workers.” Globalization. Ed. Louise I.
Gerdes. Detroit: Greenhaven-Thomson Gale, 2006. 186-90. Print.
Sternfeld, F.W. and C. R. Wilson. “Music in Shakespeare’s Work.” William
Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence. Ed. John F. Andrews. Vol 2.
New York: Scribners, 1985. 417-424. Print.
ARTICLE:
In reference book
Signed/Unsigned
5.5.7 and 5.5.14
Allen Anita L. “Privacy in Health Care.” Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Stephen G.
Post. 3rd ed. Vol. 4. New York: Macmillan-Thomson, 2004. Print.
Mohanty, Jitendra M. “Indian Philosophy.” The New Encyclopaedia Britannica:
Macropaedia. 15th ed. 1987. Print.
“Boas, Franz.” Who Was Who in America. Vol. 2. 1950. Print.
“Amero-Australian Treefrogs.” Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. Ed. Neil
Schlager. 2nd ed. Vol. 6. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2003. Print.
Notes: When citing widely used reference books, especially those that frequently appear in new editions, do
not give full publication information. For such works, list only the edition (if stated), the year of publication, and
the medium of publication consulted. [p160]
When citing specialized reference works...give full publication information, omitting inclusive page numbers
for the article if the dictionary or encyclopedia is arranged alphabetically. [p160]
If you are using only one volume of a multivolume work, state the number of the volume in the bibliographic
entry (“Vol. 2”) and give publication information for that volume alone; then you need give only page numbers
when you refer to that work in the text. [p169]
ARTICLE:
Newspaper
5.4.5
McKay, Peter A. “Stocks Feel the Dollar’s Weight.” Wall Street Journal 4 Dec. 2006:
C1+. Print.
Calvan, Bobby Caina. “Sacramento Scientists Join Race to Decode New Swine Flu
Strain.” Sacramento Bee 29 Apr. 2009: A13. Print.
ARTICLE:
Magazine
5.4.6
Kates, Robert W. “Population and Consumption: What We Know, What We Need to
Know.” Environment Apr. 2000: 10-19. Print.
Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Atlantic Jul/Aug 2008: 56+. Print.
Note: To cite a magazine published every month or every two months, give the month or months and year. If
the article is not printed on consecutive pages, write only the first page number and a plus sign, leaving no
intervening space. Do not give the volume and issue numbers even if they are listed.[p143]
ARTICLE:
Scholarly
Journal
5.4.6
Joplin, David D. “Searching for God or Medusa through Allusion in Abbey’s Desert
Solitaire.” Western American Literature 43.2 (2008): 103-27. Print.
Jinek, Martin and Jennifer A. Doudna. “A Three-dimensional View of the Molecular
Machinery of RNA Interference.” Nature 457.7228 (2009): 405-412. Print.
Heng, Henry H. Q. “The Conflict Between Complex Systems and Reductionism.”
JAMA 300:13 (2008): 1580-81. Print.
Note: In general, after the title of the article, give the journal title (italicized), the volume number, a period, the
issue number, the year of publication (in parantheses), a colon, the inclusive page numbers, a period, the
medium of publication consulted, and a period. [p138]
VIDEORECORDING
5.7.3
Rashomon. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. Perf. Toshiro Mifune. 1950. Public Media Home
Vision, 1993. Videocassette.
Tim Wise: On White Priviledge; Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality.
Media Education Foundation, 2008. DVD.
Notes: An entry for a film usually begins with the title, italicized, and includes the director, the distributor, the
year of release, and the medium consulted. You may include other data that seem pertinent—such as the
names of the screenwriter, performers, and producer—between the title and the distributor.
Cite a DVD (digital videodisc), videocassette, laser disc, slide program, or filmstrip as you would a film.
Include the original release date when it is relevant. .[p197]
PLAY
(PERFORMANCE)
5.7.4
John Muir: Among the Animals. Perf. Lee Stetson. Sierra College Dietrich Theatre,
TV SHOW
(TV OR RADIO
BROADCAST)
5.7.1
“The Phantom of Corleone.” Narr. Steve Kroft. Sixty Minutes. CBS. CBS13,
Rocklin. 24 Apr. 2009. Performance.
Sacramento, 10 Dec. 2006. Television.
MLA CITATIONS for Gale Literary Criticism Series
REPRINT of a
journal article
reprinted in CLC
5.5.6
Waxman, Barbara. “Postexistenialism in the Neo-Gothic Mode: Anne Rice’s Interview
With a Vampire.” Mosaic 25.3 (1992): 79-97. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary
Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 128. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 286-94. Print.
Note: To cite a previously published scholarly article in a collection, give the complete data for the earlier
publication and then add Rpt. in (“Reprinted in”), the title of the collection, and the new publication facts.[p159]
REPRINT of a
magazine article
reprinted in CLC
5.5.6
Tyler, Anne. “Maniac Monologue.” New Republic 17 Apr. 1989: 44-46. Rpt. in
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 58. Detroit: Gale,
1990. 325. Print.
EXCERPT of a
book reprinted
in SSC
5.5.6
Katsell, Jerome H. “Mortality: Theme and Structure in Chekhov’s Later Prose.”
Chekhov’s Art of Writing: A Collection of Critical Essays. Eds. Paul
Debreczeny and Thomas Eckman. 1977: 54-67. Rpt. in Short
Story Criticism. Ed. Sheila Fitzgerald. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1989. 146-49. Print.
Note: If you wish to inform your reader of the date when a previously published piece other than a scholarly
article first appeared, you may follow the title of the piece with the year of original publication and a period.
You do not need to record the medium of previous publication. [p158]
Glen, Heather. “Blake’s Criticism of Moral Thinking in Songs of Innocence and
EXCERPT of a
book reprinted
in PC
5.5.6
5
Experience.” Interpreting Blake. Ed. Michael Phillips. 1978. 32-69. Excerpted
in Poetry Criticism. Ed. Michelle Lee. Vol. 63. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 34-51.
Print.
Note: Some anthologies reprint excerpts from previously published material. If the work you are citing is an
excerpt, use Excerpt from instead of Rpt. of. [p159]
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