General Guidelines From the MLA Handbook for Writers. 5th ed. New York:  MLA, 1999  MLA web site  http://www.mla.org

• Follow punctuation, capitalization, and underlining provided in examples.
• Indent 5 spaces on all but the first line of each entry.
• Double-space within and between all entries.
• Alphabetize entries by author; if no author is given, begin with title.
• When listing an online source originally printed in a book, journal, or other printed format, use the general guidelines you would use to cite the printed form,  followed by the Internet citation.
• Web Sites [MLA 4.9.2] should have author (if given), title underlined, date of publication or update (if available) originator (if available), date of access, and URL (the electronic address).
• Databases [MLA 4.9.7] are cited just like the print version with the addition of the name of the database underlined, the name of the service, the library, the date of access, and URL if known.

PAPER REFERENCES

[Remember to double space and indent all but first lines]

BOOK, ONE AUTHOR    MLA 4.6.1

Kaku, Michio. Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Enth

     Dimension. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. 

BOOK, TWO OR THREE AUTHORS    MLA 4.6.4

Maddock, Richard C. , and Richard L. Fulton. Marketing to the Mind: Right Brain Strategies for

     Advertising and Marketing. Westport, CT: Quorum, 1996. 

BOOK, MORE THAN THREE AUTHORS    MLA 4.6.4

Gilman, Sandra, et al. Hysteria Beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.  

BOOK, AN EDITOR    MLA 4.6.2

Logate, Philip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: an Anthology from the Classical Era to the

     Present. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994. 

BOOK, CORPORATE AUTHOR    MLA 4.6.6

Public Agenda Foundation. The Health Care Crisis: Containing Costs, Expanding Coverage. New York:

     McGraw, 1992. 

BOOK, AN EDITOR IN ADDITION TO AN AUTHOR    MLA 4.6.12

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F. W. Robinson. Boston: Houghton, 1957.  

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED SCHOLARLY ARTICLE REPRINTED IN A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS    MLA 4.6.7

Frye, Northrop . "Literary and Linguistic Scholarship in a Postliterate Age." PMLA 99 (1984):990-95. 

     Rpt. in Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974-88. Ed. Robert D. Denhom. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990. 18-27. 

EXERPTED SOURCES FROM MULTIVOLUME CRITICAL ANTHOLOGIES (like CLC, TCLC, LC)    MLA 4.6.7

Daches, David. "W. H. Auden: The Search for a Public". Poetry 54 (1939): 148-56  Poetry Criticism. 

     Ed. Robyn V. Young. Vol. 1.  Detroit: Gale, 1991. 332-33.

BOOK IN A SERIES (like Opposing Viewpoints, Taking Sides, and Contemporary World Issues)    MLA 4.6.16

Dupler, Doug. Energy: Shortage, Glut, or Enough.

      Information Plus Reference Series.  Detroit, Gale, 2001.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE    MLA 4.6.8

Gates, David M. "Astronomy." Encyclopedia Americana. 1996 ed. 

Contents

ARTICLE FROM A MAGAZINE    MLA 4.7.6

Simons, John. "Improbable Dreams." U. S. News and World Report 22 Mar. 1997: 4-7. 

ARTICLE FROM A WEEKLY NEWS SERVICE    MLA 4.7.6

Jost, Kenneth. "Independent Counsels Re-examined." CQ Researcher 7 May 1999: 377-84.  

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE    MLA 4.7.5

Feder, Barnaby J. "For Job Seekers, a Toll-Free Gift of Expert Advice." New York Times 22 Mar. 1994,

     late ed.: A1+. 

ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL WITH CONTINUOUS PAGINATION    MLA 4.7.1

Scotto, Peter. "Censorship, Reading, and Interpretation: A Case Study from the Soviet Union."

     PMLA 109 (1994): 61-70.  

ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL THAT PAGES EACH ISSUE SEPARATELY    MLA 4.7.2

Hallin, Daniel C. "Sound Bite News: Television Coverage of Elections, 1968-1988." Journal of

     Communications 42.2 (1992): 5-24. 

Contents

WEB SITES

NO AUTHOR   MLA 4.9.2

Learn to Be Assertive - in a Positive Way. Counseling and Mental Health Center, U of Texas Austin.

     27 Oct. 1999 <http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/assertips.html>. 

AUTHOR   MLA 4.9.2

Dawe, James. The Jane Austen Page. 27 Oct. 1999 <http://jamesdawe.com/austen.html>.  

DATABASES

PROQUEST DIRECT   MLA 4.9.7

Faircloth, Anne, and Ed Brown. "The Best Cities for Business." Fortune 23 Nov. 1998: 142-45+. PA

     Research II. ProQuest Direct. Kingwood Coll. Lib., Kingwood. 8 May 2001

     <http://www.umi.com/proquest>.

Contents 

EBSCOHOST   MLA 4.9.7

"Diabetes Increases Risk for Caesarean Delivery." Nutrition Research Newsletter Oct. 1999: 6-7.

     Health Source. Ebscohost. Kingwood Coll. Lib., Kingwood. 8 May 2001

     <http://www.epnet.com/ehost/login.html>.

ONLINE WEEKLY NEWS SERVICE   MLA 4.9.7

Bettelheim, Adriel. "Public Broadcasting: Should the Government Subsidies Continue." CQ Researcher

     29 Oct. 1999: 929-52. CQ Researcher. Congressional Quarterly. Kingwood Coll. Lib., Kingwood. 8

     May 2001 <http://libraryip.cq.com>. 

ONLINE PERIODICAL   MLA 4.9.4a-b

Hebel, Sara. "Appeals Court Says Colleges May Consider Applicant's Race in Striving for Diversity."

     Chronicle of Higher Education 6 Dec. 2000. 7 Dec. 2000 <http://chronicle.com/daily/2000/12/2000120601n>.

ONLINE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION   MLA 4.9.3d

United States. Dept. of Justice, Natl. Inst. of Justice. Prosecuting Gangs: A National Assessment.

     By Claire Johnson, Barbara Webster, and Edward Connors. Feb. 1995. 31 Aug. 2000

     <http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/pgang.txt>. 

 

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