MLA Bibliography Format
Purpose of the Annotation
• Describe the content of the source• Describe the usefulness of the
source• Describe the intended audience• Evaluate the credibility of the source• Discuss the writer’s background
BOOKS
1) Basic form of a book with an author
Sidel, Ruth. On Her Own: Growing Up in
the Shadows of the American
Dream. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Last name
First name
Comma Period
Title: underlined & capitalized
Period Colon Comma
PublisherYear of Publication
Place of Publication
Indent: five spaces
2) A Book with Two or More Authors
• Use the authors’ names in the order they appear in the book.
• Separate the names with commas.• Reverse the order of only the first author’s names.
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.
Second author’s name, not reversed
3) Books with FOUR OR MORE Authors
Either list all the names or use the first author’s name followed by “et al.”
Bootzin, Richard R., et al. Psychology Today: An Introduction. New York: Random, 1986.
4) Books with Editor or Editors
Use abbreviation “ed.” or “eds.” preceded by a comma, after the name(s) of the editor(s).
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. Classic Slave Narrative. New York: NAL, 1987.
WITH FOUR OR MORE EDITORS, use only the name of the first editor followed by a comma and “et al.”
5) Book with No Author
List and alphabetize by the title of the book.
The Chicago Manual of Style. 14th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.
INTERNET
Include as much of the following information as possible:
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Web Site or Home Page. Date of Access <Electronic Address>.
Kroloff, Charles A. "54 Ways You Can
Help the Homeless." Earthsystems.org
Home Page. 26 Mar. 2001
<http://www.earthsystems.org/ways>
Last name
First name
Title of the article
Title of web site
Date of Access
Electronic address
PERIODICALS
Author's Last Name, First Name (if given). "Title of Article." Title of Magazine Publication Date: Page(s).
ARTICLE WITH AUTHOR'S NAME
Charles, N. "The Will to Win." People
Weekly 28 Sept. 1998: 170-172.
Last name
Initial, standing for first name Title of the article
Title of the magazine, periodical…
Page numbersPublication Date
Colon Period
ARTICLE WITHOUT AUTHOR'S NAME
"New Human Retrovirus." Science
News. 26 Dec. 1987: 391.
Title of the articleTitle of the magazine,
periodical…
Page numbers
Publication Date
PeriodColon
Sources:
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