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WRT103: 5. MLA Citations

Comp II: Writing and Research

MLA: ONLINE RESOURCES

ARTICLE FROM LIBRARY DATABASE

***NEW*** The name and place of the library is no longer required.

Jenson, Jill D. "It's the Information Age, so Where's the Information?" College
     Teaching
52.3 (2004): 107-12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Feb. 2005.

ENTIRE WEBSITE WITH AUTHOR

Peterson, Susan. The Life of Martin Luther. Susan Peterson, 2002. Web.
     24 Jan. 2006.

ENTIRE WEBSITE, WITH AUTHOR, URL REQUIRED

***NEW*** The new MLA guidelines no longer require a URL.  If your instructor requires a URL, however, include it at the end of the entry.  If a URL must be divided at the end of a line, break it after the slash and do not insert a hyphen.

Peterson, Susan. The Life of Martin Luther. Susan Peterson, 2002. Web.
     24 Jan. 2006. <http://www.susanpeterson.com/index_files/luther.htm>.

ENTIRE WEBSITE, CORPORATE AUTHOR

United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Drinking Water Standards. EPA,
     28 Nov. 2006. Web. 24 Jan. 2007

ENTIRE WEBSITE, UNKNOWN AUTHOR

Margaret Sanger Papers Project. History Dept., New York U, 18 Oct. 2000. Web.
     6 Jan. 2007.

ENTIRE WEBSITE, NO TITLE

Yoon, Mina. Home page. Oak Ridge Natl. Laboratory, 28 Dec. 2006. Web.
     12 Jan. 2007.

PART OF A WEBSITE

***NEW*** If the date of publication is not available, use n.d.

Shiva, Vandana. "Bioethics:  A Third World Issue." Native Web. Native Web,
     n.d. Web. 22 Jan 2007

ARTICLE FROM ONLINE SCHOLARLY JOURNAL (NO PAGE NUMBERS)

***NEW*** If page numbers are not available, use n. pag.

Belau, Linda. “Trauma and the Material Signifier.” Postmodern Culture 11: 2 (2001):
     n. pag. Web. 20 Feb. 2006.

ARTICLE FROM ONLINE MAGAZINE

Paulson, Steve. "Buddha on the Brain." Salon.com. Salon Media Group, 27 Nov.
     2006. Web. 18 Jan.2007.

ARTICLE FROM ONLINE NEWSPAPER

Rubin Joel. "Report Faults Charter School." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times,
     22 Jan. 2005. Web. 24 Jan. 2005.

MLA: OTHER PRINT PERIODICAL RESOURCES

MAGAZINE ARTICLE, NO AUTHOR

"Heart benefits of a hearty laugh." Consumer Reports on Health 21.2 (Feb. 2009): 6-6.
     Print.

EDITORIAL, NO AUTHOR

"Which humour for doctors?." Lancet 03 Jan. 1998: 1. Print.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

ONSTAD, KATRINA. "Almost Famous, for Better or Worse." New York Times (28 Sep.
     2008): 11. Print.

 

MLA: PRINT JOURNAL ARTICLES

ONE AUTHOR

Crook, David. "A Sixteenth-Century Catalog of Prohibited Music."
     Journal of the American Musicological Society 62.1 (Spring2009 2009): 1-78.
     Print.

TWO AUTHORS, JOURNAL PAGINATED BY ISSUE

Archakis, Argiris, and Villy Tsakona.. "Analyzing conversational data in GTVH Terms:
     A new approach to the issue of identity construction via humor." Humor: International
     Journal of Humor Research
18.1 (Jan. 2005): 41-68. Print.

THREE TO SIX AUTHORS

Eckstein, Daniel, Enda Junkins, and Robert McBrien. "Ha, Ha, Ha: Improving Couple
     and Family Healthy Humor (Healthy Humor Quotient)." Family Journal 11.3
     (July 2003): 301-305. Print.

MORE THAN SIX AUTHORS

Platow, Michael J., et al. "“It’s not funny if they’re laughing”: Self-categorization,
     social influence, and responses to canned laughter." Journal of Experimental
     Social Psychology
41.5 (Sep. 2005): 542-550. Print.

 

MLA: BOOKS

ONE AUTHOR

Harbord, Janet.  The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies.  Cambridge:
     Polity, 2007.  Print.

MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of
     Research
. 2nd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Print.

EDITOR

Shell, Marc, ed. American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki
     to Zuni.
  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. Print.

NO AUTHOR

New York Public Library American History Desk Reference. New York: Macmillan,
     1997. Print.

CORPORATE AUTHOR; GOVERNMENT DEPT OR ORGANIZATION

National Research Council. Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's
     Population
. Washington: Natl. Acad., 2000. Print.