MLA Guidelines from the 6th Edition, 2003

Works Cited Format

 

Alphabetical order; do not number. (Books are mixed with internet sources, with author or title of web page in alaphabetical order.)           

Double space between EACH line.

Check your punctuation.                                                

Always indent after the first line

 

BOOKS:  One Author

 

Bigge, Morris. Living in China Today. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.

       Two Authors, p.154

Grieder, Calvin, and Stephen Romine. The Middle Ages. New York: Ronald Press, 1987.

        More than Three Authors, p. 155

Graff, Ted, Joseph Williams and Thomas Cline. The Muslim World. Boston: Wadsworth Publishing, 1993.

          No Author, p. 163

Webster’s Biographical Dictionary. Springfield: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976.

          Editor, p. 152

Untermeyer, Louis, ed. Modern American Poetry. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1988.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS: Author given, p. 160

                                                                       

Meyer, John.  “Japanese Beetle.” World Book Encyclopedia. 2000 ed.

         No Author

“Mandarin.” Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed.

 

MAGAZINES (PERIODICALS)  Not from the Internet  Author given, p. 187

 

Hanks, Patrick. “Do Word Meanings Exist?” Computer And the Humanities.  4 Dec. 2000: 205-15.

         No Author

“Living in Southern California.” Time Magazine.   3 December  1994: 14+.

If the article is not on consecutive pages, write the first page number and a plus sign.

 

NEWSPAPERS   Not from the Internet    Author given, p. 185

 

Harris, Nicole. “Airports in the Throes of Change.”  Wall Street Journal. 27 Mar. 2002: A1+.

The letter after the colon stands for the newspaper section letter

INTERVIEWS p. 202

 

Jackson, Jeffery.  Personal Interview. 12 September 1995.

 

ELECTRONIC AND NONPRINT MATERIALS

 

CD (Audio Compact Disc)

Beethoven, Ludwig.  Beethoven Overtures. CD. Chamber Orchestra of Europe, 1996.

CD-ROM (Compact Disc: Read Only Memory)

Encyclopedia of Islam. CD-ROM. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

 

INTERNET (WWW)  p. 216. Without author.

 

National Forum on Information Literacy. 4 February 2005. <http://www.infolit.org/>.

Warlick, David. Landmarks Citation Machine. 12 May 2005. <http://www.citationmachine.net>.

 

Use the full title of the web site and the date you visited the site.  The date is written in the above order (day month year) and no punctuation. Note that the second line is indented. This is called a hanging indent.