Citation Machine and Easybib
Citation Machine and Easybib are free, online citation generators. By
simply filling in the information, such as author, title, copyright date,
publisher, and city of publication, they will create properly formatted
citations for you. Citation Machine is available at
http://citationmachine.net/ and Easybib is available at
http://www.easybib.com/ . Be sure to click on “MLA 7” style and then
follow the directions.
The following examples will help guide you in creating your
own citations.
Print Sources: Books, Magazines, Journals
Book, single author
Hellman, Hal. Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes
Ever. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001. Print.
Book, two or three authors
McNab, David, and James Younger. The Planets. London: Yale
University Press, 1999. Print.
Book, four or more authors
Hine, Darlene Clark, et al. Black Women in America: An Historical
Encyclopedia. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Print.
Book by corporate author or group
American Medical Association. American Medical Association Handbook
of First Aid and Emergency Care. New York: Random House,
2005. Print
Encyclopedia article, no author
Place quotation marks around the article title and underline the
encyclopedia title. When citing a very familiar encyclopedia, like World
Book, do not give the full publication information. You only need to
include the year published and the edition number, if provided.
“Dinosaur.” World Book Encyclopedia. 7th . 2007. Print
Encyclopedia article with author
Peterson, Barbara Bennett. “Rita Hayworth.” The Scribner
Encyclopedia of American Lives. 3rd. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1999. Print
Magazines and Newspapers (in print)
General Rules
1. Give the author’s name just as you do for books.
2. The title of the article is placed in quotation marks with a period
at the end of the title.
3. The magazine title is underlined followed by the date.
4. Provide the complete date beginning with the day and
abbreviating the month, followed by a colon and the page
numbers of the article.
Magazine Article:
Beschloss, Michael. “The Ford Effect.” Newsweek 8 Jan 2007: 30-33.
Print
Newspaper Article:
Farmer, Paul. “A Family Affair.” Daily Republic 19 Dec 2006: D1. Print
Online Resources: Subscription Databases and
Websites
Online Databases (EBSCO, etc.)
General Rules
1. These citations work very much like print citations. Most of the
articles you will find in EBSCO are simply reproduced from print
resources and placed online.
2. You must include the article title in quotes, the title of the database
underlined, the date the article was published (if available), and the
date you accessed the information The web address (url), is
optional.
Examples
From InfoTrac Biography Resource:
“A. A. Milne.” Contemporary Authors Online. 2007. Reproduced in
Biography Resource Center. Web. 5 Jan 2007
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>.
From World Book Online:
Hartman, John. "Argentina." World Book Online Reference Center.
2007. Web. 12 Feb 2007
<http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar595380>.
From EBSCO:
“Anorexia, Bullimia Prove Gene Related.” USA Today Magazine Oct
2006. EBSCOHost Student Research Center. 26 Jan 2006 Web.
http://search.ebscohost.com/
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