Research Guides: Citation Guide: MLA Style

MLA Style

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America
Call Number: REF LB2369 .G53 2016
Publication Date: The Modern Language Association of America, 2016
The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book-or perhaps listened to in an audio version. On the Web, modes of publication are regularly invented, combined, and modified. Previous editions of the MLA Handbook provided separate instructions for each format, and additional instructions were required for new formats.

Excelsior OWL
A website providing details on how to cite sources in MLA format.
MLA Documentation Guide
These webpages explain how to correctly format in–text citations and works cited list entries for some of the most common print and electronic sources.
MLA Style Center
he MLA Style Center is the only authorized Web site on MLA style. A companion to the MLA Handbook, the site provides students and educators with a host of free resources for teaching and learning the MLA’s approach to research, writing, and documentation. It offers a quick guide to citing any source according to the MLA format template, a practice template, a Q&A feature with hundreds of citation examples, a blog of writing tips, guidelines for formatting a paper and avoiding plagiarism, sample papers, lesson plans, worksheets, and other classroom resources submitted by users.
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

Author Last Name, Author First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Solheim, Jeff. Emergency Nursing: The Profession, the Pathway, the Practice. Sigma Theta Tau International, 2016.

Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages. DOI (if applicable). Date accessed.

Hu, Xiaodan, and Ortagus, Justin, C. "A National Study of the Influence of the Community College Pathway on Female Students' STEM

Baccalaureate Success." Community College Review, vol. 47, no. 3, 2019, pp. 242-273. DOI: 10.1177/0091552119850321. Accessed

17 Sept., 2019.

Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Name of Article." Title of Newspaper, Day Month Year, page numbers.

Stockman, Farah, and Mureithi, Carlos. "Cheating Goes Global as U.S. Students Outsource College Papers." New York Times, 8 Sept. 2019, A1.

Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine, Day Month Year, page numbers.

Davidson, Amy. "The Next Great Famine." New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2016, pp. 17-18.

Author First Name, Author Last Name (if known). "Title of Page or Article." Name of Site, Day Month Year (if available), URL, Date accessed.

"Climate Change: How Do We Know?" NASA, https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/, Accessed 19 Sept. 2019.