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(Modern Language Association, Seventh Edition) 1. Book with one author Print Format Author’s last name, Author’s first name. Title. City of publication: Publisher, year of publication. Baldwin, James.
Another Country. New York: Dial Press, 1962. Electronic Format Author’s last name, Author’s first name.
Title. City of publication: Publisher, year of publication. Name of website or database. Date of Access. David, Rosalie. Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt, Revised Edition.
New York: Facts On File, 2003. Infobase eBooks. Web. Magazine article (Print format) Author’s last name, author’s first name. “Title of Article.” Name of Magazine day Mon.
Powell, Bill. “Life Spans.” Newsweek 27 Apr. Note: for scholarly journals, add volume number and issue number after the journal name before the date of publication, which is usually the year only without a month/day notation.
Newspaper article (Print format) Author’s last name, author’s first name. “Title of the Article.” Title of Newspaper day Mon.
Year, edition: Sec.page. King, Sharon. “Staying in Vogue.” The New York Times 4 Nov. 1998, late ed.: C1+. A work in an anthology or an essay in a book of literary criticism (Print) Author’s last name, author’s first name. “Title of excerpt, poem or essay.” Title of book. City of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
More, Hannah. “the Black Slave Trade: A Poem.” British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Electronic Sources (Library databases, Internet websites) When citing an electronic source, you must give two dates: the date of publication and the date you accessed it.
Some publishing information is not available online; include what you can find. WARNING: the citation examples given on websites are not always accurate or in the format your teacher requires. When in doubt, ask your teacher or the library media specialist.
Online magazine or newspaper article (Not from a Library database) Author’s last name, Author’s first name. “Title of Article.” Name of Site. Date published. Date of access.
Levy, Steven. “Great Minds, Great Ideas.” Newsweek. Newsweek, 27 May 2008. Web.17 Apr 2012. Internet site: Author’s last name, Author’s first name.
“Title of Article.” Name of Site. Publisher, Date published.
Date of access. Odelberg, Wilhelm.
“Elie Wiesel.” Nobelprize.org. Nobel Foundation, 1987. Library databases: (American History, World History, Encyclopedias, Biography in Context, Science Online) Author’s last name, Author’s first name.
“Title of article.” Name of database. Publisher, date of publication. Date of access. “Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.” Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Scholastic Library Publishing, 2005. American History.
ABC-CLIO, 2010. Casper, Julie Kerr. 'Global warming's impacts on polar ecosystems.' Science Online. Facts On File, Inc.
Database article originally published in print (Includes most SH Library databases not mentioned in previous category) When online information has first been published in print format, you must first give the print format information, followed by the electronic information, as in the examples below. Give as much of the original publication information as you can find. Author’s last name, Author’s first name. “Title of article.” Original source. Place: Publisher, date of original source.
Database name. Date of access. 'Sinking of the Titanic - off Newfoundland: 1912.'
When Technology Fails. Neil Schlager. Gale Research, 2008.
Gale Student Resources In Context. 'Nuclear Power.' Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance. New York: Ferguson Publishing, 2007. Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.
Howard, Ronald W. “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Masterplots II: Short Story Series. Salem Press, 2004. 4 April 2012. 'The Prolonged Birth Pangs of the Nation.' Leaves of Grass: America's Lyric-Epic of Self and Democracy. James Edwin Miller.
New York: Twayne, 1992. Twayne's Masterwork Studies 92. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Lowell, James Russell.
Literary Essays. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Rpt in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Laurie Lanzen Harris and Sheila Fitzgerald. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984.
Literature Resource Center. Schwartz, Barry and Schuman, Howard. “History, Commemoration, and Belief: Abraham Lincoln in American Memory, 1945-2001.” American Sociological Review. Miscellaneous works To cite other formats such as an interview, a map, a song, a music video, a television program, a painting, a speech, etc see your teacher, a library media specialist or a citation handbook available at your library. HOW TO CITE IMAGES YOU MUST CITE AN IMAGE YOU COPY FROM THE INTERNET! ASSUME ALL IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHTED.
IT IS ILLEGAL TO USE AN IMAGE WITHOUT GIVING CREDIT TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCE. If you do not know the name of the artist who created the image, start with the title. If there is no title, make up an appropriate title. Format: Last name, first name. Title of image. Date of image.
Name of website. Date accessed. Examples: Ndebele women. 12 April 2006. Abbott, Berenice. Blossom Restaurant.
If the image was first published somewhere else before you found it on the Internet, you must give information for the original source. This is often true with famous paintings or photographs.
See your librarian for help.