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MLA CITATION STYLE
7TH EDITION
PREPARED BY: LIBRARIAN
 NUR SHAHIDAH BINTI MOHD AYOB
AHMAD KHUSAIRI AMER BIN KAMARUZAMAN
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QUOTE MATERIAL-WORD TO WORD
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REWORD OR PARAPHRASE INFORMATION
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INCLUDE STATISTICS OR FINDINGS FROM A SURVEY
OR STUDY
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NOT COMMON FACTS/KNOWLEDGE
IN THE BODY OF YOUR ESSAY, ACKNOWLEDGE
YOUR CITED MATERIAL WITH THE AUTHOR’S
NAME AND PAGE NUMBER.
E.G.: MOST NEW RESEARCH BUILDS ON PAST
WORK DONE BY OTHERS (GIBALDI 142)
TWO TYPES:
USING QUOTATIONS
 IF YOUR QUOTES LESS THAN 5 LINES:
 PLACE QUOTATION MARKS
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E.G.:HUMAN BEINGS HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED BY KENNETH
BURKE AS “SYMBOL-USING ANIMALS”(3)
E.G.:HUMAN BEINGS HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED AS “SYMBOLUSING ANIMALS”(BURKE 3)
# If paraphrase, no need to place quotation marks.
If your quote is five lines or longer make sure that it stands
out within the body. Use the following examples:
Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and dehumanizes him
throughout her narration:
They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or
even in their room, and I had no more sense, so, I put
it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it would be
gone on the morrow. By chance, or else attracted by
hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and
there he found it on quitting his chamber. Inquiries
were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to
confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and
inhumanity was sent out of the house. (Bronte 78)
Book with one Author or Editor
The general format below refers to a book with one author.
If you are dealing with one editor instead of one author, insert the editor's name in
the place where the author's name is now, followed by a comma and the word "ed."
without the quotation marks. The rest of the format remains the same.
General Format
Author Surname, First Name. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher,
Year. Medium.
Example 1 -- author
Berman, Ronald. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties. Tuscaloosa: UP
of Alabama, 2001. Print.
Example 2 -- editor
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., ed. History of U.S. Political Parties. New York:
Chelsea, 1973. Print.
Book with more than Three Authors
General Format -- option 1
Author Surname, First Name, et al. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year. Medium.
Example 1 -- option 1
Plag, Ingo, et al. Introduction to English Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton,
2007. Print.
Journal Article from an Online Database
General Format
Author Surname, First Name. “Article Title: Subtitle.” Journal Title
volume.issue (Year): page range. Database Title. Medium.
Date of Access [Day Month Year].
Example
Sielke, Sabine. "The Empathetic Imagination: An Interview with Yann
Martel." Canadian Literature 177 (2003): 12-32. ProQuest.
Web. 11 Aug. 2010.
Entire Web Site
Helpful Tips
•If there is no author, then begin citation with the title of the web
site.
•If there is no sponsoring institution or publisher, use n.p.
•If there is no date of publication, use n.d.
General Format
Personal or Corporate Author. Title of Site. Name of sponsoring
institution or publisher, Day Month Year of Publication.
Medium. Date of Access [Day Month Year].<url>.
**url is optional.
Example
Salda, Michael, ed. The Cinderella Project. U of Southern Mississippi,
Oct. 2005. Web. 15 Jan. 2011.
Web page, article, or document on web site
Helpful Tips
•Online articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference
works are also cited as web pages.
•Blog postings and wiki articles are also cited as web pages.
•If there is no author, begin the citation with the title of the
web page, article, or document.
•If there is no sponsoring institution or publisher, use N.p.
•If there is no date of publication, use n.d.
General Format
Author Surname, First Name. "Title of the Work." Title of Web Site. Name of sponsoring
institution or publisher, Day Month Year of Publication. Medium. Date of Access [Day Month
Year].
Example 1 -- with personal author
Quade, Alex. “Elite Team Rescues Troops behind Enemy Lines.” CNN.com. Cable News
Network, 19 Mar. 2007. Web. 19 June 2009.
Example 2 -- with corporate author
Committee on Scholarly Editions. "Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions."Modern
Language Association. MLA, 25 Sept. 2007. Web. 15 May 2010.
Example 3 -- with no author
“Kooning, Willem." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Encyclopaedia Britannica,
2008. Web. 15 May 2010.
Article or Chapter in an Edited Book
Helpful Tip
Only use this when citing an edited book (also known as an anthology). This is a
book that has an editor, with articles or chapters written by different authors.
Do NOT cite a chapter in a book that has been entirely written by the same
author(s) -- instead, cite the whole book.
General Format
Author Surname, First Name. "Title of Chapter." Book Title: Subtitle. Ed.
Editor First Name Surname. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.
Page Range of Chapter. Medium.
Example
Bordo, Susan. “The Moral Content of Nabokov’s Lolita.” Aesthetic Subjects.
Ed. Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P, 2003. 125-52. Print.
Magazine Article in Print
Helpful Tip
DO NOT includes Volume and Issue information in magazine article
citations.
General Format
Author Surname, First Name. “Article Title: Subtitle.” Magazine Title
Publication Date [Day Month Year]: page range. Medium.
Example
Plaskin, Robert. “Curtains for the End of Steel.” Maclean’s 27 Nov.
1978: 29-30. Print.
Newspaper Article in Print (p. 141-142)
General Format
Author Surname, First Name. “Article Title: Subtitle.” Newspaper
Title Publication Date [Day Month Year]: page range.
Medium.
Example
Shecter, Barbara. “Canadian Broadcasters Catch Break from
CRTC.” Calgary Herald 8 Nov. 2003: D3. Print.
Personal Interviews
Personal interviews refer to those interviews that you conduct
yourself.
Interviewee’s name, type of interview (personal, telephone,
etc.).date
Smith, Jane. Personal interview. 19 May 2014.