“Citations by Format.” MLA Style Center. Accessed December 11, 2024. https://style.mla.org/works-cited/citations-by-format/
Author. Title of Source. Title of Container (usually the title of the smaller work, like an article), Contributor (if any), Version (such as volume number or edition), Number, Publisher, Publication Date, Location.
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Resource Type |
Example |
In-text Citation |
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A journal article retrieved from a database |
Goldman, Anne. “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, spring 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188.
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(Goldman 78)*
*cite using author’s last name and page number |
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An article from a website |
Deresiewicz, William. “The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur.” The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2014, theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/ the-death-of-the-artist-and-the-birth-of-thecreative-entrepreneur/383497/. |
(Deresiewicz)
*with no page number, include only the author’s name |
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A book |
Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall. Picador, 2010. |
(Mantel 106) |
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An excerpt from an anthology |
De Quincey, Thomas. Excerpt from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. English Romantic Writers, edited by David Perkins, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1967, pp. 725-30.
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(De Quincey 727) |
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Slides shared via an online classroom |
Nelson, Roberta. “Steps in Photosynthesis.” Biology 100, Park University Canvas, 12 Dec. 2024, Google Slides. |
(Nelson) |
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A podcast episode |
“Best of Not My Job Musicians.” Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! from NPR, 4 June 2016, www.npr.org/podcasts/344098539/wait-wait-don-t-tell-me.
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(“Best of Not My Job Musicians”) |
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Online video (like from YouTube) |
McGonigal, Jane. “Gaming and Productivity.” YouTube, uploaded by Big Think, 3 July 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdzy9bWW3E.
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(McGonigal) |
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Ebook with a URL |
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Masque of the Red Death.” The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison, vol. 4, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902, pp. 250-58. HathiTrust Digital Library, hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924079574368 |
(Poe 252) |
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Ebook lacking a URL |
MLA Handbook. 8th ed., e-book ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016. EPUB.
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(MLA Handbook 312) |
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