MLA CITATION: QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
Works Cited
Print
Book with one author:
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurry, 1999. Print.
Book with two authors:
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.
Article in a print scholarly journal:
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu."
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50. Print.
Online magazine article:
Hamblin, James. “When You Fall Out of Love, This is What Facebook Sees.” The Atlantic. The Atlantic Monthly
Group, 18 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 Feb. 2014.
Web
Page on a website:
Turner, Brooke. “How to Become Film Extras or Stand-Ins.” eHow.com. eHow.com, 30 Oct. 2010. Web. 2 Nov.
2010.
Page on a website, no author named:
“Diversity Affairs.” SUNY Canton. SUNY Canton, n.d. Web. 2 Nov. 2010.
Scholarly article in an online database:
Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth Century England.” Historical Journal 50.1 (2007): 17396. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.
E-book with an author and print source:
Livingstone, Sonia. Children and the Internet. Malden: Polity Press, 2009. Ebook Library. Web. 18 Feb. 2014.
E-book with editor:
Scherdin, Lill, ed. Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Justice System? Burlington: Ashgate, 2014.
Ebook Library. Web. 18 Feb. 2014.
MLA IN-TEXT CITATIONS (PARENTHETICAL CITATION) – General Format: (Last name #).
Examples of in-text citations for some of the references above:
(Henley 241)
Author name and page number available
(Gillespie and Turner 7)
Two authors and page number available
(Turner)
Author available, but no page number because it is a web document
(“Diversity”)
Web page with no author, so use the article title (shortened if needed) in quotes
(Langhamer 192)
Scholarly article in an online database, so original print page numbers available
NOTE: As you insert your own source info into the above templates, take care to capitalize, punctuate, italicize,
and indent appropriately.
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