Hall High School Library

Hall High School Library

MLA Citation Guide

Book – single author

Lee, Tanith. Black Unicorn. New York: Atheneum, 1991.

Book – edited, no author

Tompkins, Vincent, ed. American Eras: Development of the Industrial United States, 1878-1899.

Detroit: Gale, 1997.

Book – no author, no editor

Thoughts on Democracy. New York: Knopf, 2001.

Encyclopedia or reference book article – no author

“Bill Clinton.” The Reader’s Companion to the American Presidency. Ed. Alan Brinkley and

Davis Dyer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. 518-539.

Magazine article – one author

Gibbs, Nancy. “Shadow of Fear.” Time 22 Oct. 2001: 24-30.

Magazine article – no author

“Loudspeakers.” Consumer Reports Nov. 2001: 22-25.

World Wide Web page

Ohio Historical Society. Memorable Quotes from the Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes. 4 Feb. 2008 < http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/hayes/quotes.html>.

iCONN - ProQuest newspaper article

Thomas Kaplan. "As Candidates Scramble for Delegates, Connecticut Primary Gains Spotlight."New York Times [New York, N.Y.]4 Feb.2008,Late Edition (East Coast):5.New York Times.ProQuest.Hall High School Library, West Hartford, CT.4 Feb. 2008 http://www.proquest.com>.

iCONN – Gale General Onefile magazine article

Kantrowitz, Barbara,andAnne Underwood."The Teen Drinking Dilemma: Some Parents Let Their Kids Use Alcohol at Home; a Most Spirited Debate."Newsweek(June 25, 2007):36.General OneFile. Gale.Hall High School Library, West Hartford, CT. 4 Feb. 2008http://find.galegroup.com/>.

iCONN – Gale Biography Resource Center reference book article

"Zora Neale Hurston." Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol. 71. Thomson Gale, 2006.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>.

iCONN – EBSCOhost* Student Research Center reference book article

Burns, William E. "Anthropology and Race." Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution (2000): 30. Science Reference Center. EBSCO. Hall High School Library, West Hartford, CT. 4 February 2008. http://search.ebscohost.com/>.

Other resources for guidance on MLA style:

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York:

Modern Language Association of America, 2003.

Johns, Julia and Sarah Keller. Cite it Right: The SourcAid LLC Guide to Citation, Research, and Avoiding

Plagiarism. Osterville, MA : SourceAid, LLC, c2006.

http://www.noodletools.com

(Username and Password are available from Mr. Cayer)

http://www.citationmachine.net/ (Click on MLA)

http://www.sourceaid.com/ (Change to “Modern Language Association”)

* To generate the citation for any EBSCOhost database (ICONN History Reference Center, iCONN Science Reference Center, iCONN Student Research Center, or Hall’s Literary Reference Center), Click the “Print” button, change “Citation Format” to MLA, Click Print, Cancel off the print job, and copy and paste the citation into your Works Cited or Bibliography document.