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NOTEBOOK ENTRY #_____
EMAIL CITATIONS - MLA Style

from http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/mlastyle.htm#documents

To see how to set up a paper and to cite sources within the document itself, go to http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

For BASIC Articles from a Website.

Author. "Article Title." Publication information for a print source. Site Name. Site Editor.

Electronic publication date. Subscription information for databases. Pages only

if numbered. Sponsoring Institution, City, ST or Country. Date site accessed <url>.

BASIC ENTRY MLA 5.9.1

Sutton, Bettye, et al. "1800-1810." 19th Century Cultural History. Ed. Peggy Whitley. 2003.

Lone Star Coll.-Kingwood Lib., Kingwood, TX. 28 July 2007

<http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/19thcentury1800.htm>.

NO AUTHOR MLA 5.9.2 Dutch Recipes. 9 Jun. 1998. 16 Sept. 2003 <http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/verona/190/eten.htm>.

AUTHOR, NO DATE MLA 5.9.1

Mazer, Cary M. Bernard Shaw: A Brief Biography. 16 Sept. 2007<http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cmazer/mis1.html>.

ONLINE PERIODICAL MLA 5.9.4. a-b

Sarnoff, Nancy. "Web's Role in House Hunt Grows." Houston Chronicle 1 Dec. 2007. 18 Feb. 2008

<http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/sarnoff/5343966.html>.

ONLINE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION MLA 5.9.3c

United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Ctr. for Disease Control and Prevention. Coordinating Ctr.

for Health Promotion. Targeting Tobacco Use. Apr. 2007. 20 Jan. 2008

<http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/pgang.txt>.

Example with appropriate spacing
Author. "Title of Article." Book or Journal Title. Editor. Edition. Volume. Series. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date. Pages.

PAPER REFERENCES

[Remember to double space and indent all but first lines]

BOOK, ONE AUTHOR MLA 5.6.1

Allison, Peter. Whatever You Do, Don't Run. Guilford, CT: Lyons, 2008.

BOOK, TWO OR THREE AUTHORS MLA 5.6.4

Brown, Nathan, and Sheryle A. Proper. The Everything Paying for College Book. Avon, MA: Adams, 2005.

BOOK, MORE THAN THREE AUTHORS. MLA 5.6.4

Gilman, Sandra, et al. Hysteria Beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.

BOOK, NO AUTHOR MLA 5.6.11 and 5.7.9

Texas Almanac: 2008-2009. Dallas, TX: Dallas Morning News, 2008.

General Rules

Pay careful attention to punctuation and type exactly as each example indicates.
Underline or italicize titles of books, magazines, and scholarly journals (consult your professor for preference.) Enclose title of articles, essays, poems, and short stories in quotation marks.
Indent 5 spaces or ½" on all but the first line of each entry.
Double-space throughout.
Use a shortened form of the publisher's name: "New York: Morrow, 2008" rather than William Morrow & Company, 2008.
For pages that are not consecutive, such as newspapers, use a plus sign: "192+." If you have only the starting page number of an article's original print publication, give the number followed by a hyphen, a space and a period: "192- ."
Make sure there is only one space after punctuation.
When listing an online source originally printed in a book, journal, or other printed format, use the general guidelines you would use to cite the printed form, followed by the online citation.
Articles from library subscription services (databases) [MLA 5.9.7] are cited just like the print version with the addition of the name of the database underlined, the name of the service, the library, the date of access, and URL if known.
Alphabetize entries by author. If no author is given, begin with the title.

Parenthetical Documentation

All sources cited in the text should be listed in the Works Cited.
Use the first part of your citation for parenthetical documentation. Usually, that will be the author or authors' last names. Follow with the page number. (Brown and Proper 17).
Use as little information as possible while making a unique identification. If there are two books by the same author, you must include part of the title. (Allison, Whatever 97).
The author's name may be included in the text and only the page numbers in parenthesis. "As Allison asserts (97), the..." Many instructors prefer this method. Be sure to check.
If you have no page numbers, it usually flows better to include the reference in the text. "According to Allison, the..."