MLA Stylesheet for Term Paper Citations - Yuba College

MLA Stylesheet for Research Essay CitationsYuba College Learning Resources (Revision—Fall 2009)According to guidelines of the Modern Language Association, the list of sources used in a research paper is called a Works Cited list.It appears at the end of the research paper on a separate page. All entries should be double spaced. If an entry goes to a 2nd or 3rdline, those lines should be indented (hanging indent). MLA requires that you capitalize the title words in article titles and book titles.Some general changes to note in the 7 th edition of the MLA Style Manual (2009): You must always identify the Medium ofPublication—usually Print for print sources and Web for any electronic sources or internet sources. New guidelines for 2009 also notethat you should use italics (not underline) for book titles and names of periodicals.Here are some samples of entries--Print SourcesBOOKSNO AUTHOR ..............................................ONE AUTHORTWO AUTHORS .........................................MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS ................EDITOR .......................................................ESSAY OR ARTICLE IN COLLECTION.....ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE...............MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERSMAGAZINE ARTICLE SIGNED ................MAGAZINE ARTICLE UNSIGNED .........Handbook of Korea. 6th ed. Seoul, Korea: Seoul International Pub.House, 1987. Print.McDougall, Walter A. Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New AmericanHistory, 1585-1828. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Print.Hyde, Margaret O. and Elizabeth Held Forsyth. Suicide: The HiddenEpidemic. Rev. ed. New York: Watts, 1974. Print.Quirk, Randolph, et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the EnglishLanguage. London: Longman, 1985. Print.Perkins, Kathy A., ed. Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of PlaysBefore 1950. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989. Print.Klawans, Stuart. "Colorization: Rose-Tinted Spectacles." SeeingThrough Movies. Ed. Mark C. Miller. New York: Pantheon, 1990.150-185. Print.Sapir, Edward. "Communication." Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.New York: Macmillan, 1930. Print.Theroux, Paul. "China Passage by Rail." National Geographic March1988: 196-329. Print."Time for Doubt." Time 26 Nov. 1990: 30-34. Print.Note: For monthly/weekly magazines and/or newspapers, use date—do not use volume and issue number.For scholarly journals, use volume and issue number (with date).SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ..........................NEWSPAPER ARTICLE UNSIGNED .......BOOK REVIEW ..........................................Jacoby, Sanford. “Employers and the Welfare State." Journal of AmericanHistory 80 (1993): 525-556. Print."The Elected Aristocracy: 12 is Enough." Wall Street Journal 6 Nov.1990: 22A. Print.Hall, Lucia K.B. Rev. of God and the New Physics, by Paul Davies.Humanist Nov. - Dec. 1986: 39. Print.(Rev November 2009)

Electronic or Online SourcesNote these changes in the 2009 MLA Style Manual (7 th ed.): Since URLs (web addresses) change often and since sources are oftenavailable in more than one location on the internet, you are no longer required to include the URL in your entry (unless your teacherrequires it or unless you think that readers would have a difficult time finding your source through a search engine). If you do includea URL, place it in angle brackets < >. When you cite articles from subscription databases (the databases that the Yuba CollegeLibrary subscribes to, such as Proquest and Wilson Web), you are no longer required to give the library name or city. Simply give thename of the subscription database, in italics. Always give the Medium of Publication (Web), followed by the date that you accessedthe information. For web pages, always give the sponsor of the website after you list the title of the web page and identify the website.See samples below--SCHOLARLY JOURNALS ONLINE WHEN ALSOAVAILABLE IN PRINT .............................Note: For scholarly journals, use volume and issue number (with date).Alcoser, Pat W. "Bone Marrow Transplantation.” American Journal ofNursing 99.6 (1999): 26-32. Proquest. Web. 21 Oct. 2008.For monthly/weekly magazines and/or newspapers, use date—do not use volume and issue number.MAGAZINES OR NEWSPAPERS ONLINE WHEN ALSOAVAILABLE IN PRINT...................................... Steinberg, James. "UCSD Students Have Party for Youngsters in City." SanDiego Union-Tribune 17 Apr. 2005: B3. Newsbank. Web. 20 Apr. 2008.INTERNET SITES, WEB PAGE ………………. “Estuaries.” Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. SmithsonianOther SourcesInstitute. Web. 24 Nov. 2008.No matter what the source, remember always to give the Medium of Publication: CD-ROM, DVD, CD, Radio, Television, Speech(etc.).SPEECH ..............................................................INTERVIEWSAllen, Steve. “Remarks for the Opening General Session.” CLA Convention.Hilton Hotel, San Diego, CA. 3 Nov. 2008. Address.INTERVIEW IN PERSON .......................... Basso, Lillian. Personal interview. 4 March 2008.INTERVIEW IN PRINT ..............................TV or RADIO PROGRAMSEllison, Ralph. "Invisible Man: Interview with James Allen McPherson.”Atlantic Dec 1970: 45-60. Print.PERIODICAL SOURCES PUBLISHED ON CD-ROM OR DISKETTE WHEN ALSO"If God Ever Listened: A Portrait of Alice Walker." Horizons. Prod. JaneRosenthal. Natl. Public Radio. WBST, Muncie IN. 3 March 1984. Radio.AVAILABLE IN PRINT ................................. Lacayo, Richard. "This Land Is Whose Land?" Time 23 Oct. 1995: 68-71.NONPERIODICAL SOURCESPUBLISHED ON CD-ROM OR DISKETTE .ELECTRONIC MAIL .....................................Academic ASAP. New York: Infotrac, Dec. 1995. CD-ROM."Grand Canyon National Park." The Random House Encyclopedia. 1990 ed.Pittsford, NY: Mycrolitics, 1991. CD-ROM.Buss, Pauline. "Choosing a New Computer for Your Office." E-mail to JosephSternberg. 18 Jan. 1996. E-mail.For more information: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: MLA, 2009.Another source for help: Purdue University Online Writing Lab. “MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide.”(Rev November 2009)