http://absentprof.missouristate.edu/assets/WritingCenter/MLA_7th_Edition_Cheat_Sheet.pdf
Examples of Citations
Book with one author:
Steele, Timothy. The
Color Wheel: Poems. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. Print.
Book with two or three authors:
Broer,
Lawrence R., and Gloria Holland. Hemingway
and Women: Female Critics and the Female
Voice. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2002. Print.
Book with four or more authors:
Jones, Terry, et al. Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery. New
York: Thomas Dunne Books,
2004.
Print.
Chapter in a book:
Naremore,
James. "Hitchcock at the Margins of Noir." Alfred Hitchcock:
Centenary Essays.
Ed. Richard Allen and S. Ishii-Gonzales. London:
BFI, 1999. 263-77. Print.
Translation:
Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji . Trans.
Royall Tyler. New York: Viking, 2001. Print.
Print
journal article:
Levine, June Perry. “Passage to
the Odeon: Too Lean.” Literature Film
Quarterly
14.3 (1986): 139-50. Print.
Journal
article acquired
using a library database:
Letemendia,
V. C. “Revolution on Animal Farm: Orwell's Neglected Commentary.” Journal of Modern Literature 18.1
(1992): 127-37. JSTOR . Web. 6 July
2009.
Website:
Bio. A&E Television Networks,
2009. Web. 7 July 2009.
Newspaper
article:
Daker,
Susan. “No Happy Holiday for Refiners.” Wall Street Journal 3 July 2009: C10. Print.
Film:
Chocolat. Dir. Lasse Hallstrom. Perf.
Alfred Molina and Juliette Binoche. 2000. Miramax, 2003. DVD.
Parenthetical
Citations
•
References in your paper must clearly point to
specific sources in your list of Works Cited.
•
In most cases, providing the author’s last name
and the page number is sufficient:
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).
•
If you have several works by the same author,
also include the title (abbreviated if long):
(Frye, Double Vision 85).
•
If no author is listed, use the title (shortened
if long):
Voice of the Shuttle has many
electronic sources.
•
If using the title, remember to use correct
punctuation: italicize book titles, use quotation marks for journal articles,
short stories, book chapters, etc.
•
The author’s name can be referred to within the
sentence:
Tannen
has argued this point (178-85).
…or the author’s name can be referred to
within the parenthetical reference:
This
point has already been argued (Tannen 178-85).
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