MLA Citation Guide

SOURCES IN PRINT, MLA style

Book    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead, 2003.

Essay from an anthology    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

O'Neill, Eugene. "All God's Chillun Got Wings." An anthology of interracial literature : Black-white contacts in the Old World and the New. Ed. Werner Sollors. New York: New York UP, 2004. 504-29.

Article from a print journal    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

Almond, Steve. "What the Bird Says." The Southern Review 40.4 (2004): 703-715.

Article from a magazine    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

Sedaris, David. "It's Catching." The New Yorker 1 August 2005: 38-41.

Article from a newspaper    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

Stanley, Alessandra. "Betting a Network on Youths Who Think." New York Times 22 August 2005: B1.

Article from an encyclopedia    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

Kessler, Kelly. "Friends: U.S. Situation Comedy." Encyclopedia of Television. 2nd ed. 2004.


ONLINE SOURCES, MLA style

Entire website    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

Caskey, Micky M., and Paul Gregorio. The Civil War Through a Child's Eye. 1999. 1 Sept. 2005 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/civilwar/> .

Article from an online database - General citation format    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

Author. "Title of the Article." Title of the Journal Volume.Issue (Year):PageRange. Name of Database. Database Provider. Bluffton University Lib., Bluffton, Oh. Date you found the article. <Basic web address for the Database>.

Article from Academic Search Complete database    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

Algoo-Baksh, Stella. "Ghosts of the Past." Canadian Literature Issue 184 (2005): 143-144. Academic Search Complete. EBSCOhost. Bluffton University Lib., Bluffton, OH. 1 Sept. 2005. <http://search.epnet.com/>.

Literature Resource Center database, Contemporary Authors profile    (see also Bedford Handbook example)

"Andrew M(oran) Greeley." Contemporary Authors/Literature Resource Center. 04/20/2002. Gale. Bluffton University Lib., Bluffton, OH. 1 Sept. 2005. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/menu>.


For help in writing annotated bibliographies, please visit Cornell University's tutorial at http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm


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