MLA Citation Guide

1. MLA Citation Guide

2. MLA Full Citation: Print Sources, One Author Last Name of Author, First Name. (follow with ‘, ed. if the person is an editor). Title. City of Publication: Publication Company, Date of Pub. Print. Examples: Twitchell, James B. Living it Up: America’s Love Affair with Luxury. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Print. Crystal, David. Language Play. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. Print.

3. MLA Full Citation: Print Sources, Two or More Authors Always list the authors in the order they are listed on the text. If there are four or more authors, you can use the abbreviation ‘et al’ after the first author’s name. Last Name, First Name, Full Name, and Full Name. Title. City: Pub. Company, Date. Print. Examples: Cohn, Rachel, and David Levithan. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. New York: Random House, 2007. Print.

4. MLA Full Citation: Print Sources, A Work in an Anthology Anthologies include: textbooks, collections, and compilations or poetry, essays, short stories, novellas, etc. Last Name, First Name. “Title of Story.” Name of Anthology. Ed. Full Name. City: Pub. Company, Date: page no. Print. Example: Cofer, Judith Ortiz. “American History.” Literature and the Language Arts: The American Tradition. Ed. Laurie Skiba. St. Paul: EMC/Paradigm, 2002: 31-38. Print.

5. MLA Full Citation: Print Sources Republished Book (modern printing of an older text) Most “classic” novels are republished. ALWAYS look for an original print date unless the book looks like an original print. Last Name, First Name. Name of Book. Original publication date. City: Pub. Company, Date of current publication. Print. Example: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. New York: Random House, 2001. Print.

6. MLA Full Citation: Print Sources, Newspaper Article Last Name, First Name. “Article Title.” Name of Newspaper Day Month Year of Publication, edition (if applicable, as in late ed., early ed.): page. Print. Example: Tysiac, Ken. “Wolfpack Adds One to Roster.” News and Observer 14 August 2009, late ed.: C1+. Print.

7. MLA Full Citation: Print Sources, Magazine Article Last Name, First Name. “Name of Article.” Magazine Title Date of Publication: Page Number(s). Print. Example: Zakaria, Fareed. “Victory in Iraq.” Newsweek 15 June 2009: 32-35. Print.

8. MLA Full Citation: Print Sources, Article in Scholarly Journal Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Publication Vol.Iss No (Month and Year, or just Year): Page No(s). Print. Example: Quinn, Anna. “Reading between the Lines: Strategies to Discover Meaning from a Text.” English Journal 95.1 (Sept. 2005): 47-51. Print.

9. MLA Full Citation: Web Sources Articles only available on the web: Last Name of Author, First Name. Title of Work (or “Title of Work”). Title of Web site. Version or Edition Used. Publisher or sponsor of the site, (if not available, use N.p.) Date of Publication. (if not available, use n.d.) Web. Date of Access (Day Month Year). Example: Green, Joshua. “The Rove Presidency.” The Atlantic.com. Atlantic Monthly Group, Sept. 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.

10. MLA Full Citation: Web Sources Work on the Web Cited with Print Publication Data Last Name of Author, First Name. Title of Work (or “Title of Work”). City of Publication: Publication Company, Year. Title of Web site. Web. Date of Access (Day Month Year). Example: Child, L. Maria, ed. The Freedmen’s Book. Boston, 1866. Google Book Search. Web. 15 May 2008.

11. MLA Full Citation: Web Sources Online Scholarly Journal Last Name, First Name. “Name of Article.” Online Journal Vol.No. (Date): Page Nos. (or n. pag.) Web. Date of Access (Day Month Year). Example: Landauer, Michelle. “Images of Virtue: Reading, Reformation and the Visualization of Culture in Rousseau’s La nouvelle Heloise.” Romanticism on the Net 46 (2007): n. pag. Web. 8 Nov. 2007.

12. MLA Full Citation: Web Sources A Periodical Publication in an Online Database Last Name, First Name. “Article Name.” Publication Name Vol.No. (Date): Page No. (or n. pag.) Database. Web. Date of Access. Example: Chan, Evans. “Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema.” Postmodern Culture 10.3 (2000): n. pag. Project Muse. Web. 5 June 2008.

13. What to do if Your Source Doesn’t Match up Perfectly with a Model?? Don’t panic! Just use some good old common sense  • Identify a basic model to follow. • Look for models that show the additional elements in your source. • Add new elements from the other models to your basic model in the order indicated. • When in doubt, ask your teacher for help—but use your resources first!

14. Citation Practice • You have a citation practice worksheet. Read the directions and use the information to create a Works Cited Page. Use the power-point, your Easy Writer, or the OWL website to complete this activity. You should submit the Works Cited page to Edmodo.

15. Integrating Quotations: • Using quotes within quotes • Using ellipses and brackets to alter quotes • Using long quotes

16. Rule #1 of using quotations: • You may not start a sentence with a quote!! • You may see professional writers do this, but until you are a professional writer, you may not : ) • We’re going to discuss a few ways to make this seemingly daunting task easier.

17. Things to remember with integrating quotes: • You are inserting it into YOUR OWN words—You have to start the sentence, which means you have to know what you want to say. • You don’t have to use the entire quote; in fact, you shouldn’t. • When using a quote, the sentence should make sense being read aloud—in other words, it should “flow.” • You should ALWAYS cite the quote properly! • You can change a quote to help it make sense in your sentence or to shorten it!

18. You are inserting it into YOUR OWN words—Introducing the quote: • Use a signal phrase, using author or character name. Try to be more creative than “says” • Foulkes asserts, “profound aspects of personality” may be expressed in dreams (184). • Incorporate just a few essential words of the quote into your sentence. • According to Foulkes’ study, dreams may express “profound aspects of personality” (184), and uncover latent desires. • With a colon. Write a complete sentence, and the quote is used as an example of your sentence. • You can find out a lot about a person discussing their dreams: “profound aspects of personality are embedded in dreams” (Foulkes 184).

19. You don’t have to use the entire quote; in fact, you shouldn’t. • If a quote is longer than four typed lines in your text, you should place the quote in a free-standing block of text and omit (not include) quotation marks. • This is mostly used for literary analysis. For any essays you’ll be writing in this class, this is not appropriate. • When used appropriately, it should look like this: Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and dehumanizes him throughout her narration: They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their room, and I had no more sense, so, I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it would be gone on the morrow. By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and there he found it on quitting his chamber. Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house. (Bronte 78)

20. When using a quote, the sentence should make sense being read aloud—in other words, it should “flow.” What needs to be added to these to make them “flow”? **Note these are in APA format—taken from student papers • An example for stolen cars, “So you can have a roadside reader simply powered using a solar panel sitting by the side of the road just collecting data, and then it transmits it back to the central system” (Cordell, 2005, par. 5). • With RFID “this means that retailers have fewer empty shelves and suppliers can eliminate wasteful overproduction” (Wilson, 2005, para. 5).

21. You should ALWAYS cite the quote properly! • With MLA, include author name in either the signal phrase or in the parenthesis and page number. • Stallings maintains, “she couldn’t see” because of the fog (4). • Because of the fog, “she couldn’t see” (Stallings 4). • Be cognizant of punctuation! It ALWAYS goes after the parenthesis if it ends your sentence. • According to USA Today, J.K. Rawling, who is taking on writing novels for adults, “has nothing to prove” (Davis para. 2). • If it does not end the sentence, commas, semi-colons, and question marks go inside the quotation marks. • She wondered, “why does cereal cost so much these days?” (Apple 13) as she sauntered down the isle.

22. You can change a quote to help it make sense in your sentence or to shorten it! • If you add a word or words in a quotation, you should put brackets [ ] around the words to indicate that they are not part of the original text. • Jan Harold Brunvand, in an essay on urban legends, states, "some individuals [who retell urban legends] make a point of learning every rumor or tale" (78). • Barry White proclaims that “although [he has] never considered [his] voice intriguing, many other people have” (Totts 21). • Use brackets to: • Add information to clarify • Change the tense or capitalization • Change pronouns to make sense in context

23. You can change a quote to help it make sense in your sentence or to shorten it! • If you omit a word or words from a quotation, you should indicate the deleted word or words by using ellipsis marks, which are three periods ( . . . ) preceded and followed by a space. For example: • In an essay on urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand notes that "some individuals make a point of learning every recent rumor or tale . . . and in a short time a lively exchange of details occurs" (78).

24. Practice! • Go back to the worksheet from yesterday. You will use the same information to integrate/paraphrase the quotes. You should use brackets and/or ellipses in integrating the two quotes into your own words. Follow the directions for Part II. You will submit this to Edmodo.

25. Day 4 Warm-up: Web Source Citation Go to: http://search.ebscohost.com/ Log On (user name: Franklin; password: Academy) Click on Research Databases. Click on MAS Ultra--School Edition. Search for Human Rights and cite an article that appears in the list.

26. Day 4: Practicing MLA Citation • Correct the citations on the worksheet. You may use your resources: the OWL website, the Easy Writer, or the powerpoint to complete this activity.