Transcript MLA and APA Formatting - Coastal Carolina University

MLA STYLE—PART III
Works Cited page citations
GENERAL GUIDELINES
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Broadly speaking, entries follow this order:
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Author’s name
Title
Publication information (date, volume, city of publication,
etc.)
Mode of access (print or web)
Each form is slightly different. There are forms for
books, journal and magazine articles, newspaper
articles, web sites, video recordings, and other types
of entries.
Look up the right format for each source.
Do not trust an automated online citation service or
citation-generating software to format your entries
correctly. The responsibility is yours.
BOOKS
Franke, Damon. Modernist Heresies: British Literary
History, 1883-1924. Columbus: Ohio State UP,
2008. Print.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Piper, Andrew. “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and
the Book of Everything.” PMLA 121.1 (2006): 124138. Print.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Piper, Andrew. “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and
the Book of Everything.” PMLA 121.1 (2006): 124138. Print.
(For a journal that uses volume numbers.)
Kafka, Ben. “The Demon of Writing: Paperwork, Public
Safety, and the Reign of Terror.” Representations 98
(2007): 1-24. Print.
(For a journal that uses only issue numbers.)
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
McEvoy, Dermot. “Little Books, Big Success.”
Publishers Weekly 30 Oct. 2006: 26-28. Print.
(For a weekly or bi-weekly magazine.)
Kates, Robert. W. “Population and Consumption:
What We Know, What We Need to Know.”
Environment Apr. 2000: 10-19. Print.
(For a monthly or bi-monthly
magazine.)
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Jeromack, Paul. “This Once, a David of the Art World
Does Goliath a Favor.” New York Times 13 July
2002, late ed.: B7+. Print.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Jayson, Sharon. “Avoiding Lies Can Improve Health.”
USA Today 6 August 2012: A1+. Print.
WEB SOURCES
For each web source, cite as much of the following as
possible:
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Author, compiler, editor, etc.
Title of the work (the page)
Title of the overall Web site (in italics).
Version or edition
Publisher or sponsor. (Use “N.p.” if not available.)
Date of publication
Medium of publication (Web)
Date of access (day/month/year)
WEB SOURCE—WITH AN AUTHOR
Bush, Dana. “Reid Puts GOP in a Bind over Romney’s
Taxes.” CNN.com. Turner Broadcasting System,
7 August 2012. Web. 20 August 2012.
(Click to see online source.)
WEB SOURCE—CORPORATE AUTHOR
American Heart Association. “Healthy Diet Goals.”
Heart.org. AHA, 2012. Web. 20 August 2012.
(Click to see online source.)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
MLA Handbook, 7th edition for some of the example
entries.
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