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MLA Works Cited Practice
Book
Information | Punctuation | Example |
Author(s) or editor(s) | Last Name, First Name, Middle Name (if any). | |
Title of book | Italicized. | |
Volume number of book (if any) | Vol. #. | |
Place of publication | Followed by a Colon: | |
Publisher’s name | Followed by a Comma, | |
Date of publication | Followed by a Period. | |
Medium of publication (Print or web) | Followed by a Period. |
Examples
Last name, first name. Title of Book. Vol. #. Place of Publication: Publisher’s Name, Year of publication. Medium of publication.
Okuda, Michael, and Denise Okuda. Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. New York: Pocket Books, 1993. Print.
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Loeb-Harvard UP, 1980. Print.
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Encyclopedia or a Multi-Volume Book
Information | Punctuation | Example |
Title of article | “In Quotation Marks.” | |
Title of encyclopedia volume | Italicized. | |
Edition number | # ed. | |
Date of publication | Followed by a Period. | |
Medium of publication (Print or web) | Followed by a Period. |
Examples
“Title of Article.” Title of Encyclopedia Volume. # ed. Year of publication. Medium of publication.
"Ideology." The American Heritage Dictionary. 3rd ed. 1997. Print.
“Coal Mines.” World Book Encyclopedia. 41st ed. 2006. Print.
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Website
Information | Punctuation | Example |
Author(s) or editor(s) (if available) | Last Name, First Name, Middle Name (if any). | |
Title of web page | “In Quotation Marks.” | |
Title of web site | Italicized. | |
Name of organization or publisher | Followed by a Comma, | |
Date of publication (if available) | Day Month Year. (Followed by a period) | |
Medium of publication (Print or web) | Followed by a Period. | |
Date accessed | Day Month Year. (Followed by a period) |
Examples
Newman, Richard. “William Shakespeare.” The Online Literary Archive. The Literature Network. 2006. Web. 4 Apr. 2011
"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. eHow, 3 March 2008. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.
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Article from a Database
Information | Punctuation | Example |
Author(s) or editor(s) | Last Name, First Name, Middle Name (if any). | |
Title of article | “In Quotation Marks.” | |
Title of periodical | Italicized. | |
Volume number and issue number (if any) | Period between the volume # and issue # | |
Date of publication | Followed by a colon: | |
Page numbers of publication | Followed by a period. | |
Name of database | Italicized. | |
Medium of publication (Print or web) | Followed by a Period. | |
Date accessed | Day Month Year. (Followed by a period) |
Examples
Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson. “Nature's Rotary Electromotors.” Popular Mechanics 29 Apr. 2005: 42-44. Ebscohost. Web. 5 Mar. 2009.
Ritcher, Martha. “The Legacy of McKinley’s Foreign Policy.” The Journal of American Policy May 2008: 12-24. Gale. Web. 12 Sept. 2010.
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