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Modern Languages Association (MLA) Citation

Modern Languages Association (MLA) Citation. Sourcing Your Essay ENGLISH Source: Concordia University Writing Center. Setting It Up. When creating your Works Cited Page, remember to: Begin the Works Cited on a new page, but number consecutively Alphabetize each entry by first letter

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Modern Languages Association (MLA) Citation

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  1. Modern Languages Association (MLA) Citation Sourcing Your Essay ENGLISH Source: Concordia University Writing Center

  2. Setting It Up When creating your Works Cited Page, remember to: • Begin the Works Cited on a new page, but number consecutively • Alphabetize each entry by first letter • Italicize all titles of books, magazines, films, etc. • Put quotation marks around the titles of poems, short stories, and articles • Indent the 2nd line, the 3rd line, and all subsequent lines of each citation • Double-space all entries

  3. Books with One Author Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. New York: Warner Books, 1960. Print.

  4. Books with Two or Three Authors Francis, R. Douglas, Richard Jones, and Donald B. Smith. Destinies: Canadian History since Confederation. Toronto: Harcourt, 2000. Print.

  5. A Page on a Website "Joyce Wieland." Celebrating Women's Achievements: Women Artists in Canada. National Library of Canada, 2000. Web. 29 Mar. 2004. Cassidy, Penny. "You Can't Read That." NBC New York. NBC Universal, 18 Apr. 2009. Web. 29 Apr. 2009.

  6. Film, videorecording or DVD • The Shining. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Perf. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall. Warner Bros., 1980. Videocassette. • Macbeth. Dir. Roman Polanski. Perf. Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, and Nicholas Selby. 1971. Columbia, 2002. DVD. For in text reference, provide the time of the scene’s beginning. Failing that, provide the chapter.

  7. Article in Reference Book or Encyclopeadia Guignon, Charles B. "Existentialism." Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. 10 vols. London: Routledge, 1998. Print.

  8. Article in Newspaper or Magazine Semenek, Susan. "Feeling Right at Home: Government Residence Eschews Traditional Rules." Montreal Gazette 28 Dec. 1995, Final Ed.: A4. Print. Driedger, Sharon Doyle. "After Divorce." Maclean's 20 Apr. 1998: 38-43. Print.

  9. Inserting Quotes Into Text • Short Quotations (fewer than four typed lines of prose or three typed of verse): Enclose in double quotations, provide author and page reference, and punctuation after source: • According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though others disagree. • According to Foulkes's study, dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (184).

  10. Long Quotations (More than four lines of typed verse or prose): place quotations in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented one inch from the left margin; maintain double-spacing. Citation should come after quotation. 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) As a result of this treatment, the reader understands the bias of Nelly Dean towards Heathcliff.

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