EXAMPLES OF BASIC MLA FORMATS:

BOOK

1.           Author’s full name (last name first)

2,           Full title of the book

3.           Editor’s name (followed by “et al.” for multiple editors)

4.          Edition (if the book is a second or later numbered edition or a revised edition)

5.           Number of the volume and the total number of volumes (if the book is a multivolume              work)

6.          City of publication

7.           Shortened form of the publisher’s name

8.          Year of publication

 

Example:

 

O’Brien, Tim.  The Things They Carried.  Boston:  Houghton, 1990.

 

A PART OF A BOOK (ANTHOLOGY, COLLECTED ESSAYS, ETC.)

 

1.           Author’s full name (last name first)

2.           Full title of the anthologized work or essay

3.           Full title of the book

4.          Editor’s name (followed by “et al.” for multiple editors)

5.           Edition (if the book is a second or later numbered edition or a revised edition)

6.          Number of the volume and the total number of volumes (if the book is a multivolume              work)

7.           City of publication

8.          Shortened form of the publisher’s name

9.           Year of publication

10.         Inclusive pages numbers

 

Examples:

 

O’Brien, Tim.  “How to Tell a True War Story.”  The Things They Carried.  Boston: 

Houghton, 1990.  67-85.

Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian.  A Raisin in the Sun.  The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  

Ed. Paul Lauter et al.  2^nd ed.  Vol. 2.  Lexington, MA:  Heath, 1994.  2397-2456.

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RTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL

1.           Author’s name

2.           Title of article

3.           Title of the journal

4.          Volume number

5.           Month/quarter and year of publication (in parentheses)

6.          Inclusive page numbers of the article

 

Example:

 

Lock, Helen.  “The Paradox of Slave Mutiny in Herman Melville, Charles Johnson, and

Frederick Douglass.”  College Literature 30.4 (Fall 2003):  54-70.

 

NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE ARTICLE

1.           Author’s name

2.           Title of article

3.           Title of the periodical

4. Date of publication

5.           Inclusive page numbers of the article

 

Example:

 

Hoover, Eric.  “New Attacks on Early Decision.”  Chronicle of Higher Education 11 Jan. 2002: 

A45-46.

 

INTERNET SOURCE

1.           Author’s name

2.           Title of the document

3.           Full information about any previous or simultaneous publication in print form

4.          Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or personal site

5.           Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database

6.          Date of electronic publication or last update

7.           Name of the institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the site

8.          Date when you accessed the source

9.           Network address, or URL

 

Example:

 

Mistral, Gabriela.  “Silueta de Sor Juana Inés.”  Abside 15 (1951):  501-06.  The Sor Juana Inés

de la Cruz Project.  Ed. Luis M. Villar.  Feb. 1998.  Dartmouth Coll.  23 Jan. 2002 <http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/Commentaries/Mistral/Mistral.html>.