MLA Citation Guide

Follow these color codes:

Author Title of Book Title of Article Title of

Periodical Volume

Place of Publication

Publisher Date Medium of

Publication Pages

BookOkuda, Michael, and Denise Okuda. Star Trek Chronology:

The History of the Future. New York: Pocket, 1993. Print

Compiled by: Catherine and Pierre B. D .L.

This guide is based on the MLA Handbook (7th ed.) that was published in 2009

and The OWL at Purdue

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(Okuda 31)

MLA

Basic In-Text Citation Rules

Basic In-Text Citation Rules

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation

What’s required? The author’s name (or title if no author is given).

Page number(s) in parentheses at the end of the sentence.  

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Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

Parenthetical reference – citation information (page number and/or author’s name) provided in parentheses at the end of the sentence.

Signal phrase – when you put the author’s name first to introduce the information.

Works Cited: Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print

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Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

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Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263 )

Paraphrasing

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Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Long Quotations

If a quotation is more than four lines when typed into your paper, begin the quotation double-spaced on a new line that is indented by 2.5cm (1 inch). The quotation should be double-spaced. Do not use quotation marks. Also note that the period is placed before the parenthetical citation For example:

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I ran, twisting, and turning through the trees

like a Cooper's hawk, and occasionally

riding a free fifty feet downhill on an aspen

sapling. Dad gave me a resounding slap, and

Mother hugged me until she cried. I led them

proudly up the mountain. (George 175)

Book – no author or Editor A Book of Boy’s Stories. London: Blackie, 1937. Print.

Book – Multiple Authors (More than three)Unsworth, Len, et al. Children’s Literature and Computer-Based Teaching. Maidenhead: Open UP, 2005. Print.

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(Unsworth et al. 105)

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(A Book of Boy’s Stories 20)

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(Messenger and Bruyn 30)

Encyclopedia Article   Horn, Maurice. "Flash Gordon." The World Encyclopedia of Comics.      Ed. Maurice Horn. 2 vols. New York: Chelsea, 1976. Print. or

Bergmann, Peter G.. “Relativity." The New Encyclopedia Britannica : Macropaedia. 15th ed. 29 vols. Chicago: Britannica, 1976. Print.

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(Horn 105) (Bergmann 403)

Book Article or ChapterJames, Nancy E. "Two Sides of Paradise: The Eden Myth According to      Kirk and Spock." Spectrum of the Fantastic. Ed. Donald Palumbo.      Westport: Greenwood, 1988. 219-223. Print.

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(James 220-221)

Journal Article

Wilcox, Rhonda V. "Shifting Roles and Synthetic Women in Star     Trek: The Next Generation." Studies in Popular Culture 13.2 (1991):53-65. Print

Newspaper or Magazine Article

Di Rado, Alicia. "Trekking through College: Classes Explore Modern     Society Using the World of Star Trek." Los Angeles Times 15 Mar.     1995: A3. Print.

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(Di Rado A3)

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(Wilcox 51)

Website

Lynch, Tim. "DSN Trials and Tribble-ations Review." Psi Phi: Bradley‘s Science Fiction Club. Bradley University. Web. 8 Oct. 1997.

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(Lynch)

Newspaper or Magazine Article on the Internet

Andreadis, Athena. "The Enterprise Finds Twin Earths Everywhere It Goes, But Future Colonizers of Distant Planets Won't Be So Lucky."Astronomy Jan. 1999:64- . Web 7 Feb. 1999

Online Film or Film Clip (e.g. YouTube)

“Hurricane Katrina: The Drive: New Orleans Lower 9th Ward" YouTube. New Orleans Video Access Center, 16 June 2006. Web. 13 Nov. 2009.           

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(Andreadis 105)

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It is confirmed by the film “Hurricane Katrina: The Drive.”

Online Resources

Kunka, Jennifer L, and Joe Barbato. “MLA

Formatting and Style Guide.” The OWL at Purdue .

Purdue University. 2007. Web. 14 Nov. 2007

Works Cited