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Citations

Citations. MLA Format . instructions. Take out your journals Either draw a line straight down the middle or fold a page in half. You will be taking Cornell Notes on this presentation. . Whole website.

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  1. Citations MLA Format

  2. instructions • Take out your journals • Either draw a line straight down the middle or fold a page in half. • You will be taking Cornell Notes on this presentation.

  3. Whole website Editor, author, or compiler name. Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site, date of resource creation. Medium of Publication. Date of access. For example: Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U., 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10 May 2006. Remember: • The name of the site is in italics • The second lines and on are indented ½” • Double spacing is used throughout

  4. A Page on a web site “How to Make Vegetarian Chili.” eHow. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009 Remember: • Write “n.d.” if no publishing date is given • Write “n.p.” if no publisher name is available

  5. Article in a web magazine Bernstein, Mark. “10 Tips on Writing the Living Web.” A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A List Apart Mag., 16 Aug. 2002 Web. 4 May 2009. Remember: • For other types of sources, visit The Owl at Purdue or Diana Hacker (type either into Google).

  6. In-text citations • Author page number: “I am a word nerd” (Dunaj 32). • Cite just the author if no page number given, such as on a website: “P.E. is so totally awesome” (Sheridan). • Facts are documented with in-text citations: Science is considered the wackiest subject amongst middle schoolers (Allexy 108). • Quotes from another source are called indirect sources: History is by far the “beezneez” (qtd. in Olberding 58). • If you name the author first, you only need to put the page number in parenthesis: According to Elizabeth Brown, art is good for the soul (237). • If a work does not have an author, cite its title: There is a crack in the universe (“The Eleventh Hour”).

  7. Works cited page • Heading is centered • List is alphabetized • First line of each entry is at left margin; extra lines indented at ½” • Double-space throughout your works cited page. • See handout

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