Transcript MLA: Modern Language Association In-Text and End

Two Components for MLA Citations
• In-Text Citations
– Inside the paper
– aka parenthetical citations
• End-Text Citations
– At the end of the paper
– aka Work(s) Cited page
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Information that Doesn’t Require Citations
•
Proverb, sayings, clichés
– A friend in need…
• is a friend indeed.
– Give credit where…
• credit is due.
• Well-known quotations
– “To be or not to be. That is the question.”
• Common knowledge that’s not debatable.
– The sky is blue.
– Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.
• Your own field research.
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Reminder
WHEN IN DOUBT… CITE IT!!
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MLA Works Cited Popular Entries
Four of the most common source types:
• Books
• Magazines/Journals Articles (Print)
• Magazines/Journals Articles (Library Web
Database)
• Websites
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MLA Works Cited Entry Formulas
Book Formula:
Last name, First name. Title. City of
Publication: Publisher, Date of
Publication. Print.
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MLA Works Cited Entry Formulas
Book Example:
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Signet
Classics, 2008. Print.
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MLA Works Cited Entry Formulas
Print Magazine/Journal Article Formula:
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of
Magazine or Newspaper Day Month Year:
Page numbers. Print.
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MLA Works Cited Entry Formulas
Print Magazine/Journal Article Example:
Powell, Frances. “Lady Diana: The People’s
Princess.” Newsweek 20 Nov. 1995: 25-28.
Print.
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MLA Works Cited Entry Formulas
Web Database Magazine/Journal Article
Formula:
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of
Journal. Vol. no. Issue no. (Year): pages. Online
Database Name. Web. Day Month Year
Accessed.
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MLA Works Cited Entry Formulas
Web Database Magazine/Journal Article
Example:
Reese, Patty. “Christianity in America.” The
Christian Journal. 6.2 (2009): 1+. Expanded
Academic. Web. 8 March 2010.
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MLA Works Cited Entry Formulas
Website Formula:
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of
Larger Source or Website. Publisher or
Sponsor. Day Month Year of Publication. Web.
Day Month Year Accessed.
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MLA Works Cited Entry Formulas
Website Example:
Smith, Beth. “Something Rotten in the Big
Apple.” NewYorkNews.com. New York
News Press. 17 June 2002. Web. 24 Feb.
2010.
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MLA Works Cited Page Specs
• Continue page numbering with last name from
the body of your paper. It goes after the paper.
• Center the title “Works Cited,” one inch from the
top. No quote marks or underlining.
• Alphabetize entries by the author’s last name. If
no author, alphabetize by the title (ignore A, An,
The).
• Use a hanging indent.
• Double space.
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MLA Works Cited Page Specs
What if something is missing?
Some sources do not have a date, publisher or
pagination. MLA advises, where applicable, to
write n.d. for no date, n.p. for no publisher, and
n.pag. for no pagination given.
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MLA Works Cited Page Specs
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MLA In-Text Citations Formulas
References in your paper must clearly point to
specific sources in your list of Works Cited.
IF IT’S IN THE PAPER, IT GOES ON THE WORKS
CITED PAGE.
IF IT’S ON THE WORKS CITED PAGE IT GOES IN
THE PAPER.
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MLA In-Text Citations Formulas
Formula:
In print sources (and sources from the web and
databases), providing the author’s last name and
the page number is most preferred.
Example:
Medieval Europe was a place both of “raids,
pillages, slavery, and extortion” and of “traveling
merchants, monetary exchange, towns if not cities,
and active markets in grain” (Townsend 10).
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MLA In-Text Citations Formulas
Formula:
If no author is listed (no matter the type of source), use
the title of the article (shortened if longer than 5
words).
Example:
Medieval Europe was a place both of “raids,
pillages, slavery, and extortion” and of “traveling
merchants, monetary exchange, towns if not cities,
and active markets in grain” (“A History of the
Middle Ages” 10).
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MLA In-Text Citations Formulas
Formula:
The author’s name can be referred to within the
sentence and as a result not be mentioned in the
parenthetical citation.
Example:
According to Mike Townsend, Medieval Europe was
a place both of “raids, pillages, slavery, and
extortion” and of “traveling merchants, monetary
exchange, towns if not cities, and active markets in
grain” (10).
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MLA In-Text Citations Specs
• If using the title, remember to use correct
punctuation: italicize book titles, use quotation
marks for journal articles, short stories, book
chapters, etc.
• Periods go after the parenthesis.
• Whatever is in the first space of the works cited, endtext citation goes in the parenthetical citation. They
are a matching pair.
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MLA Body Paragraph Example
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MLA Practice
1) Write a Work Cited entry for the following source.
Author: James Debrie
Title: Days of Thunder
City: Boston
Publisher: Verizon, Inc.
Date: 2004
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MLA Practice
1) Does yours look like this?
Debrie, James. Days of Thunder. Boston:
Verizon, Inc., 2004. Print.
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MLA Practice
2) Write a Work Cited entry for the following source.
Author: Annalyse Burton
Title of Article: Mark Twain: The Satirist
Title of Larger Work: The Literati
Publication Date: July 19, 1999
Pages: 125, 127, 128, 129
Database: OneFile
Medium: Web
Access Date: April 27, 2011
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MLA Practice
2) Does yours look like this?
Burton, Annalyse. “Mark Twain: The Satirist.”
The Literati. 19 July 1999: 125, 127-29.
OneFile. Web. 27 April 2011.
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MLA Practice
3) You incorporated this quote from Paul Mariani’s
book Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman from page
273 in your research. Finish the parenthetical citation.
According to biographer Paul Mariani, “Researchers have
documented alcohol-related upheavals in John Berryman’s
life, including loss of friends, family, and a future in college”
(273).
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MLA Practice
3) Does your research look like this?
According to biographer Paul Mariani, “Researchers have
documented alcohol-related upheavals in John Berryman’s
life, including loss of friends, family, and a future in college”
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MLA Practice
4) You wrote the following sentence using information
from “Family Therapy: A Systems Approach”, which is
an article on the website WebMD. You found it on April
12, 2014, and the copyright date is 2011. No author is
available. Finish the parenthetical citation.
Some researchers trace the causes of alcohol dependence to
“flawed family structures.”
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MLA Practice
4) Does yours look like this?
Some researchers trace the causes of alcohol dependence to
“flawed family structures” (“Family Therapy: A Systems
Approach” par. 5).
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