MLA Citation: Works Cited and In-Text

MLA Citation: Works Cited and In-Text

NOTE: In the MLA style, the list of references contains every source cited in the text, is titled Works Cited, and begins on a separate page. The list should be double spaced within and between entries, and each line after the first should be indented one-half inch. The in-text reference is to go at the end of the sentence in which the work is cited.

Book, Single Author:

Reardon, Kathlen Kelley. They Don’t Get It, Do They?: Communication in the

Workplace-Closing the Gap Between Women and Men. Boston: Little, 1995.

In-text reference: (Reardon 3-4)

Book, Two or Three Authors:

Aronson, Linda, Roger Katz, and Candide Moustafa. Toxic Waste Disposal

Methods. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.

In-Text reference: (Aronson, Katz, and Moustafa 121-23)

Book, Four or More Authors:

Santos, Ruth J., et al. Environmental Crises in Developing Countries. New York:

Harper, 1995.

In-text reference: (Santos et al. 9)

Book, Anonymous Arthur(s):

Structured Programming. Boston: Meredith, 1995.

In-text reference: (Structured 67)

Multiple Books, Same Authors(s):

*When citing more than one work by the same author, do not repeat author’s

name; type three hyphens followed by a period. Alphabetize by title.

Chang, John W. Biophysics. Boston: Little, 1997.

--. Diagnostic Techniques. New York: Random, 1994.

In-text reference: (Chang, Biophysics 123) (Chang, Diagnostic 87)

Book, One or More Editors:

*If using four or more editors, remember to list only the first, followed by “et al.”

Morris, A. J., and Louise B. Pardin-Walker, Eds. Handbook of New Information

Technology. New York: Harper, 1996.

In-text reference: (Morris and Pardin-Walker 34)

Book, Indirect Source:

*This is when the original source has quoted or cited another source, and that material is to be used. For in-text reference, use the name of the original author or source in the text of your paper, then begin the in-text reference with “qtd. in” Example: According to Kline, … (qtd. in Stubbs 35). Cite the source as you would according to what it is, for instance a book or magazine article.

Stubbs, John. White Collar Productivity. Miami: Harris, 1996.

Anthology Selection or Book Chapter:

Bowman, Joel P. “Electronic Conferencing.” Communication and Technology:

Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Al Williams. Denton, TX; Assn. For Business

Communication, 1994. 142.

In-text reference; (bowman 129)

Article, Magazine:

DesMarteau, Kathlenn. “Study Links Sewing Machine Use to Alzheimer’s

Disease.” Bobbin. Oct. 1994: 36-38

In-text reference: (Desmarteau 36)

Article, Magazine, No Author:

“Video Fames for the Next Decade/” Power Technology Magazine. 18 Oct. 1996:

121.

In-text reference: (“Video Games” 18)

Article, Newspaper:

Baranski, Vida H. “Errors in Medical Diagnosis.” Boston Times. 15 Jan. 1997.

Sec. B: 3.

In-text reference: (Baranski 3)

Personal Interview:

Nasson, Gamela. Chief of Campus Police. Austin, TX. 2 April 1997.

In-text reference: (Nasson)

Lecture:

*If the tile of the lecture is not known, write Lecture without quotation marks.

Dumont, R. A. “Androgyny and the Rhetorical Tradition.” University of

Massachusetts at Darmouth, 15 Jan. 1996.

In-text reference: (Dumont)

CD-ROM:

Canalte, Henry a. “Violent-Crime Statistics: Good News and Bad News.” Law

Enforcement. Feb. 1995: 8. ABI/INFORM. CD-ROM. Proquest. Sept. 1995.

In-text reference: (Wallin)

Web Source:

*Since the information given is not always consistent, it follows this format:

Author (if known). Title. Date of creation if given. <http> (Access date).

Dumont, R. A. “An On-line Course in Composition.” 10 Dec. 1995.

http://www.umassd.edu/englishdepartment (6 Jan. 1996).

In-text reference will include author or part of title and page if given: (Dumont)

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