{"id":1050,"date":"2018-07-10T20:47:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1050"},"modified":"2022-08-22T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:51:32","slug":"9-5-mla-citation","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/chapter\/9-5-mla-citation\/","title":{"rendered":"12.3 MLA Citation: Works Cited Entries"},"content":{"raw":"The Modern Language Association (MLA) system of documentation governs how writers format academic papers and cite the sources that they use. This system of formatting and citation is used most by academic disciplines in the arts and humanities.\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><strong>Citations<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Citations, according to MLA, consist of two elements:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li class=\"no-indent\"><em>in-text citations (also called parenthetical citations).<\/em> These are the citations that you include within your essay, after you have referenced something from a source.<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"no-indent\"><em>a Work Cited (or Works Cited, if multiple sources are cited) list<\/em>. This is a list of all sources you cited within the essay.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><strong>Works Cited Entries<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Every source that you quote, paraphrase, or summarize in an essay must be included in your Works Cited list<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Your Works Cited list should always be on its own new page, after the end of the text of the essay<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong style=\"font-size: 14pt\">General order of content in an MLA-formatted Works Cited Entry<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Online News\/Magazine Article <\/strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li><strong>Author(s).<\/strong>\u00a0 Use the format Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. If there are multiple authors, use and before the last author's name.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>\"Title of the Article.\"<\/strong>\u00a0 Include the title of a shorter work in quotation marks and use <a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/capitalization-of-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline-style capitalization<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong><em>Title of the Newspaper or Publisher<\/em><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> Use italics for the title of a longer work like a newspaper or online publication and use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/capitalization-of-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline-style capitalization<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Publication date,<\/strong> Use the format: Date Abbreviated Month Year.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>URL.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<strong>Example<\/strong>\r\n<p class=\"hanging-indent\">Robinson, Angela. \"History Shows Why It's Time for a Black Woman to Sit on the Supreme Court .\"<em>\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>, 1 Feb. 2022,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2022\/02\/01\/history-shows-why-its-time-black-woman-sit-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2022\/02\/01\/history-shows-why-its-time-black-woman-sit-supreme-court\/<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Print Book<\/strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li><strong>Author(s).<\/strong>\u00a0 Use the format Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. If there are multiple authors, use and before the last author's name.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong><em>Title of the Book<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> Use italics for the title of a longer work like a book and use <a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/capitalization-of-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline-style capitalization<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Edition. <\/strong>If there are multiple editions, use the format 1st\/2nd\/3rd ed.,<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Publisher,<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Publication date.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<strong>Example<\/strong>\r\n<p class=\"hanging-indent\">Lee, Harper.\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>. 1st ed., J. B. Lippincott &amp; Co., 1960.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>eBook<\/strong>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li><strong>Author(s).<\/strong> Use the format Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. 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If there are multiple editors, use and before the last author's name.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Publisher,<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Publication date.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong><em>Database<\/em><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0Note: Use italics for names of databases.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>URL or permalink.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<strong>Example<\/strong>\r\n<p class=\"hanging-indent\">Hughes, Langston.\u00a0<em>Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond<\/em>, edited by Evelyn Louise Crawford and Mary Louise Patterson. University of California Press, 2016.\u00a0<em>EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.csudh.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=e000xna&amp;AN=1105577&amp;site=ehost-live&amp;scope=site&amp;ebv=EB&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/libproxy.csudh.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=e000xna&amp;AN=1105577&amp;site=ehost-live&amp;scope=site&amp;ebv=EB&amp;<\/a>.<\/p>\r\nHere is a <a href=\"https:\/\/mlahandbookplus.org\/books\/book\/5\/chapter\/56247\/Introduction-to-Formatting-Your-Research-Project\">link<\/a> to show you how to format your research paper in MLA Style.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><strong>Practice with ordering the elements of an MLA-formatted Works Cited page<\/strong><\/p>\r\n[h5p id=\"24\"]\r\n\r\n[h5p id=\"25\"]","rendered":"<p>The Modern Language Association (MLA) system of documentation governs how writers format academic papers and cite the sources that they use. This system of formatting and citation is used most by academic disciplines in the arts and humanities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><strong>Citations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Citations, according to MLA, consist of two elements:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"no-indent\"><em>in-text citations (also called parenthetical citations).<\/em> These are the citations that you include within your essay, after you have referenced something from a source.<\/li>\n<li class=\"no-indent\"><em>a Work Cited (or Works Cited, if multiple sources are cited) list<\/em>. This is a list of all sources you cited within the essay.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><strong>Works Cited Entries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every source that you quote, paraphrase, or summarize in an essay must be included in your Works Cited list<\/li>\n<li>Your Works Cited list should always be on its own new page, after the end of the text of the essay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 14pt\">General order of content in an MLA-formatted Works Cited Entry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Online News\/Magazine Article <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Author(s).<\/strong>\u00a0 Use the format Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. If there are multiple authors, use and before the last author&#8217;s name.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Title of the Article.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 Include the title of a shorter work in quotation marks and use <a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/capitalization-of-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline-style capitalization<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Title of the Newspaper or Publisher<\/em><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> Use italics for the title of a longer work like a newspaper or online publication and use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/capitalization-of-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline-style capitalization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Publication date,<\/strong> Use the format: Date Abbreviated Month Year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>URL.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"hanging-indent\">Robinson, Angela. &#8220;History Shows Why It&#8217;s Time for a Black Woman to Sit on the Supreme Court .&#8221;<em>\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>, 1 Feb. 2022,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2022\/02\/01\/history-shows-why-its-time-black-woman-sit-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2022\/02\/01\/history-shows-why-its-time-black-woman-sit-supreme-court\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Print Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Author(s).<\/strong>\u00a0 Use the format Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. If there are multiple authors, use and before the last author&#8217;s name.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Title of the Book<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> Use italics for the title of a longer work like a book and use <a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/capitalization-of-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline-style capitalization<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Edition. <\/strong>If there are multiple editions, use the format 1st\/2nd\/3rd ed.,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Publication date.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"hanging-indent\">Lee, Harper.\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>. 1st ed., J. B. Lippincott &amp; Co., 1960.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBook<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Author(s).<\/strong> Use the format Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. If there are multiple authors, use and before the last author&#8217;s name.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Title of the Book,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Use italics for the title of a longer work like a book and use <a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/capitalization-of-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline-style capitalization<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editors<\/strong>\u00a0 If there is one editor, use the format edited by Last Name, First Name. 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