This is the format to be used when submitting work unless specified otherwise by your teacher.
CITING BOOKS WITH ONE AUTHOR:
Author's name (last name first). Title of the book.
Place of publication: Publisher, date.
Example: Berlage, Gale. Women in Baseball. New York:
Macmillan, 1994.
CITING BOOKS WITH TWO AUTHORS:
Example: Kerrigan, William, and Gordon Braden. The Idea of the Renaissance.
New York: Doubleday, 1989.
CITING BOOKS WITH THREE AUTHORS:
Example: Marquart, James W., Sheldon Ekland, and John Sorensen.
No Place Else. New York: Columbia UP, 1994.
CITING BOOKS WITH MORE THAN THREE AUTHORS:
Example: Gilman, Sander, et.al. Hysteria Beyond Freud. London:
Longman, 1985.
CITING TWO OR MORE BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
Example:
Asimov, Isaac. Asimov on Numbers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.
--- , The Foundation Trilogy. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982.
--- , Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright. New York: Avon Books, 1976.
CITING BOOKS WITHIN AN ANTHOLOGY:
Author's name (last name first). "Title of the short work."
Title of the Complete Work (the anthology). Name of the editor(s).
Place of publication: Publisher, date.
Example: Franklin, Benjamin. "Emigration to America."
The Faber Book of America. Ed. Christopher Ricks and William L. Vance.
Boston: Faber, 1992.
CITING ARTICLES WITHIN AN ENCYCLOPEDIA:
Author's name (if listed; last name first). "Title of the article."
Title of the Encyclopedia. List on the edition (if stated) and the year of
publication.
Example: Elliott, Margaret. "Geometry." The Encyclopedia Americana.
15th ed. 1993.
CITING ARTICLES/ENTRIES WITHIN A REFERENCE WORK:
Author's name (if listed; last name first). "Title of article or entry."
Title of Reference Book. Name of the editor(s) if listed. Total number
of volumes in work. Place of publication: Publisher, date.
Example: Cohen, Patrick. "Normans and Normandy." Dictionary of the
Middle Ages." Ed. Susan L. Meyers. 13 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1987.
CITING ARTICLES FROM CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM SERIES (CLC'S):
Author of the original article (last name first). "Title of the original article."
Title of the original complete work. Publication information. Pages of
the original article. In Title of the Contemporary Literary Criticism Series. Volume
number. Editor's name. Publication information. Pages of the article in the
Contemporary Literary Criticism Series.
Example: Malkoff, Karl. "The Greenhouse Land." Theodore Roethke: An
Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia UP, 1966. 1-17.
In Contemporary Literary Criticism. V.101. Ed. Deborah A. Stanley.
Detroit: Gale, 1997. 263-268.
Example: Rosenthal, M.L. "Closing in on the Self." The Nation. 21 Mar. 1959: 258-
260. In Contemporary Literary Criticism. V.101.
Ed. Deborah A. Stanley. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 263-268.
CITING A CLC (CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM) FROM THE GALE LITERARY ON-LINE DATABASE:
Author. "Title of the article." Publication name. Volume number (if necessary)
Publication date: page number- page number. Database name. Service name.
Library name, City, State. Date of access. <electronic address of the database>
Example: Nelson, Michael. "One Mythology Among Many: The Spiritual Odyssey of
C.S. Lewis." Virginia Quarterly Review. 72.4 (1996): 1-12. Gale Group
Database. Maine Info Net, Fryeburg Academy Library, Fryeburg, ME.
7 May 2004. <http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases>
CITING ARTICLES FROM CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS:
"Title of article." Contemporary Authors. Volume number.
Publication information. Pages of the article.
Example: "Matthews, Anne, 1957-." Contemporary Authors. V. 141.
Detroit: Gale, 1994. 300-301.
CITING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS (Magazines):
Author's name (if listed, last name first). "Title of the article." Title of the
Periodical. Date: pages.
CITING MAGAZINE ARTICLES WITH AN AUTHOR:
Example: Frank, Michael. "The Wild, Wild West." Time. 3 Jan 1994: 64-65.
CITING MAGAZINE ARTICLES WITHOUT AN AUTHOR:
Example: "The Decade of the Spy." Newsweek. 7 Mar. 1994: 26-27.
CITING NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:
Example: Feder, Barnaby J. "For Job Seekers: Some Expert Advice." New York
Times. 30 Dec. 1993, late ed.: D1+
CITING CD-ROM SOURCES:
Author's name (if listed, last name first). "Title of the part of the work." Title of the
Product. Edition or version (if listed). Publication medium (CD-
ROM, diskette). Place of publication: Publisher, date.
Example: Holbein, Hans. "Clarinet." Encarta Encyclopedia. CD-ROM.
New York: Microsoft, 1995.
CITING A VIDEO:
Title of the Video. Name of the director, Performer(s) (if listed and important).
Date it was originally produced (if listed). Product
medium (Videocassette, DVD). Distributor of the video, most recent date
it was produced.
Example: It's a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart,
Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore. 1946. Videocassette.
PBS Video, 1988.
Example: Medicine at the Crossroads. Videocassette. National Geographic,
1993.
CITING A PERSONAL INTERVIEW:
Name of the person interviewed (last name first). Kind of interview
(Personal, Telephone). Date of interview.
Example: Smith, John. Personal interview. 22 July 2005.
Example: Jones, Roy. Telephone interview. 10 Dec. 2004.
CITING INTERNET WEB SITES:
Author's name (if listed, last name first). "Article title." Name of the Web site.
Date of posting/revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with
the site. Date of access <electronic address>
Example: Poland, Dave. "The Hot Button." Roughcut. 26 Oct. 1998. Turner
Network Television. 28 Oct. 1998 <http://www.roughcut.com>
Example: "Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format." Purdue
Online Writing Lab. 2004. Purdue University.
6 Feb. 2003 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/reseasrch/r_mla.html>
CITING AN ARTICLE IN AN ONLINE JOURNAL OR MAGAZINE:
Author(s). "Title of article." Title of Journal. Volume. Issue (Year):
Pages/Paragraphs. Date of Access <electronic address>
Example: Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious
Diseases. 6.6 (2000): 33 pars. 5 Dec. 2000
<http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no6/wheelis.htm>
Example: Chaplin, Heather. "Epidemic of Extravagance." Salon. 19 Feb 1999.
12 July 1999 <http://ww1.salonmagazine.com/money/col/chap.html>
E-MAIL (or other personal communication):
Author. "Title of the message (if any)." E-mail to person's name. Date of the
message.
ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA:
"Einstein, Albert." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 23 November 1999
<http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=108494&sctn=1>
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