MLA WORKS CITED GUIDE
I. Books, Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
Author, One
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash. Boston:
Houghton, 1961.
Author, Two
Shulman, Robert, and Mary Bennett. The Life of Emily
Dickinson. Lynchburg, VA: Dominion, 1901.
Authors, Editors, More Than Three
Gowan, Lucian, et al. Integrated Systems. New York:
McCougal, 1998.
(et al. means "and others.")
Two or More Works by the Same Author
List the works alphabetically by title.
Dickinson, Emily. Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily
Dickinson. Eds. Mabel Loomis Todd, and Millicent Todd
Bingham. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945.
---. "A Coffin is a small domain." Todd and Bingham 204.
---. "How happy is the little stone." Selected Poems of
Emily Dickinson. New York: Random House, 1924. 86.
---. "I felt my life with both my hands." Todd and Bingham
145-46.
Chapter or Part of the Book
Hurston, Zora Neale. "Drenched in Light." The Portable
Harlem Renaissance Reader. Ed. David Levering Lewis.
New York: Viking, 1994. 691 - 198.
Young, Philip. "A Defense." Hemingway: A Collection of
Critical Essays. Ed. Robert P. Weeks. Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice,1962. 172-174.
Several Selections or Criticisms from One Anthology
or Collection
To cite several selections from the same anthology, first list the anthology itself as a separate entry. Then list each essay from the anthology ---- the essay author and title, the name of the editor, the page numbers of the essay.
Weeks, Robert P., ed. Hemingway, A Collection of Critical
Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice, 1962.
Baker, Carlos. "The Two African Stories." Weeks 139-151.
Young, Robert. "A Defense." Weeks 172-174.
Multivolume Work
"Willa Cather." American Writers. Ed. Leonard Unger.
Vol.1.New York: Scribner"s, 1974. 312-333.
Wescott, Glenway. "Marianne Moore." Poetry Criticism. Ed.
Robyn V. Young. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1992.
229-230.
Editor
Magill, Frank, ed. Great Women Writers. New York: Holt,
Encyclopedia
Kennedy, Floyd D. , Jr. . "Helicopter."
The World Book Encyclopedia. 1995 ed.
Scholarly Journal
Rowe, J.D. "Popular English." Journal of American English.
16 (1986): 336-45.
Magazine, Monthly
Stewart, Doug. "This Joint Is Jumping." Smithsonian March
1999: 60-74.
Magazine, Weekly
McCallum, Jack. "College Basketball." Sports Illustrated 1
March 1999: 48-51.
Newspaper with Lettered Sections
Oliver, Ed. "The Virginia Governor"s Race." The Virginian
Pilot 14 July 1993: B1-B3.
II. Computer: CD-ROM,Subscription Databases , Internet
CD-ROM
Masterplots
"The Scarlet Letter (Character Profiles)." Masterplots
Complete 2000. CD-ROM. Salem, 2000. Jan. 2001.
"The Scarlet Letter (Masterplots Classics)." Masterplots
Complete 2000. CD-ROM. Salem, 2000. Jan. 2001.
*Note: Use this form if you are citing the plot summary
of the work.
Buckner, Sally. "The Scarlet Letter (Masterplots Classics -
Critical Evaluation). Masterplots Complete 2000.
CD-ROM. Salem, 2000. Jan. 2001.
*Note: Use this form if you are citing the critical
evaluation of the work.
(The last date is the date you accessed the information.)
Subscription Databases
ABC-CLIO World History: Ancient & Medieval
"Tomb of Tutankhamen." World History:Ancient and
Medieval.2006.ABC-CLIO.6 Jan. 2006
<http://www.ancienthistory.abc-clio.com>.
Biography Resource Center
"Shirley Horn." Almanac of Famous People, 8th ed. Gale
Group, 2003. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.
Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>.
Summers, Nick. " Transition: The Jazz Singer." Newsweek
Oct 31, 2005 p10.Reproduced in Biography Resource
Center.Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>.
Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select Online
Shaw, Peter, "Love and Death in The Catcher in the Rye," in
New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye, Cambridge
University Press, 1991, 97-114. Reproduced in
Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select Online. 2 May
2001. http://galenet.com.
Health and Wellness Center
"FDA Oncology Tools on Internet. (From the Food and Drug
Administration)." JAMA, The Journal of the American
Medical Association. Sept. 13, 2000. Online. Health &
Wellness Resource Center. Gale Group. 26 Mar. 2001.
<http://www.galenet.com/servlet/HWRC>.
(Note: The last date given is the month and year of your visit to this site.)
History Resource Center: Modern World
"Viet Cong Tet Offensive, January 31, 1968-March 31, 1968."
DISCovering World History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003.
Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington
Hills, MI: Gale Group. 6 January 2006.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/>.
Issues and Controversies
"Lead In Bones Causes Aggression." Today's Science, May
1996. FACTS.com. Facts On File News Services. 4 May
2005. <http://www.2facts.com>.
"Update: Death Penalty." Issues and Controversies, 1 Apr.
2004. FACTS.com. Facts On File News Services. 4 May
2005. <http://www.2facts.com>.
(The last date given is the date of your visit to this site.)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
"Introduction to Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints." Iraq. William
Dudley, Ed. Opposing Viewpoints�� Series. Greenhaven
Press, 2004.Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. 06 January 2006.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/OVRC>.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
"Electric Street Cars." New York Times (1857-current file),
1 April 1883: p.5. Proquest Historical Newspapers The
New York Times (1851-2001). 10 May 2005.
<http://hn.bigchalk.com/hnweb/hn/do/>.
(Note: The last date given is the month and year of your visit to this site.)
Proquest Platinum
DePalma, Anthony. "Mexicans Renew Their Pact." New York
Times 25 Sept. 1994: A4. ProQuest. UMI-ProQuest. 10
May 2000. <http://proquest.umi.com/>.
(Note: The last date given is the month and year of your visit to this site.)
Science Online
"Abalone." Facts On File, Inc. Science Online.
<www.fofweb.com>.
Bell, Suzanne. "Accidental pattern (fingerprints)." The Facts
On File Dictionary of Forensic Science. New York: Facts
On File, Inc., 2004. Facts On File, Inc. Science Online.
<www.fofweb.com>.
Image from Science Online
"DNA Fingerprinting: Producing a DNA Fingerprint." Human
Physiology On File, New Edition. Copyright Diagram
Visual Information Ltd., 2003. Facts On File, Inc.
Science Online. <www.factsonfile.com>.
Scribner Writers Series
Larsen, Erling. "James Agee." American Writers. Vol.1.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. 25-47.
Republished in The Scribner Writers Series Online.
2000.GaleNet. 12 Feb. 2001. <http://galenet.com>.
Student Resource Center
"Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815." DISCovering World
History. Online Edition. Gale,2003. Student Resource
Center. Thomson Gale. 05 January 2006.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC>.
"Criticism: 'The Bells' by Edgar Allan Poe." EXPLORING
Poetry. Online Edition. Gale, 2003. Student Resource
Center. Thomson Gale. 05 January 2006.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC>.
"The Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770." DISCovering World
History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003. Student Resource
Center. Thomson Gale. 05 January 2006.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC> .
The Twayne Author Series
Rowe, William W. "Leo Tolstoy." Twayne's World Authors
Series Online. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1999.
Previously published in print in 1986 by Twayne
Publishers. Republished in Twayne's World Author
Series Online. 2000. GaleNet. 4 Dec. 2000.
<http://galenet.com>.
World Book Online Reference Center
Le Gall, Michel. "Iraq." World Book Online Reference
Center. 2005. World Book, Inc. 4 May 2005.
<http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/>.
(Note: The last date given is the date of your download or visit to this site.)
World Wide Web
DiStefano, Vince. "Guidelines for Better Writing." 1993. 5
Dec. 1994. <http:www.usa.net/~vinced/home/better-
writing.html/>.
(Note: The first date, 1993, is the date on the web site. The last date, 5 Dec. 1994 is the date of your download or visit to that site.)
An Online Image or Series of Images
Smith, Greg. "Rhesus Monkeys in the Zoo." No date.
Online image. Monkey Picture Gallery. 3 May 2003.
<http://monkeys.online.oeg/rhesus.jpg>.
(Artist if available. "Description or title of image." Date of image. Online image. Title of larger site. Date of download. <electronic address>.
III. Videos
Video Recording
Amadeus. Dir. Milos Forman. Videocassette. HBO Video,
1984.
(title, director, type of medium [videocassette, filmstrip, slide program, videodisc], distributor, year)
IV. Interview, Unpublished
Lowry, Lois. Telephone interview. 30 June 1997.
Note:
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