1.Print periodical article
from a popular magazine
Form:
AuthorLastName,
AuthorFirstName. "Title of the Article." Title of the Magazine
FullDate: PageNumbers.
Example:
Kaminer,
Wendy. "The Last Taboo." New Republic 14 Oct. 1996: 24-5.
2. Print periodical
article from a scholarly journal
Form:
AuthorLastName,
AuthorFirstName. "Title of the Article."
Title of the Journal volume number.issue number (year or date):
page numbers.
Example:
Barthelme,
Frederick. "Architecture of Renown."
Kansas Quarterly 13.4 (1981): 77-80.
3. Periodical article from
a scholarly journal available in full text in a database
Form:
AuthorLastName,
AuthorFirstName. "Title of the Article." Title of the Periodical
volume number. issue number (date of issue): page numbers. FullNameof
the Database. Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN [or where
you accessed it]. DateYouAccessedIt. <URL of database>
Example:
"For the Food
and Nutrition Professional: A Chocolate Update." Journal of the
American Dietetic Association 100.2 (February 2000): 269. InfoTrac
OneFile, Gale Group. Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. 29
January 2001. <http://www.galegroup.com>
4. Chapter from a printed
book
Form:
AuthorLastName,
AuthorFirstName. "Title of the Chapter." Title of the Book. Ed.
EditorFirstName EditorLastName. CityofPublication: PublisherName, Year.
page numbers.
Example:
Mitchell,
Susan. "Spending." Generation X: The Young Adult Market. Ithaca,
NY: New Strategist Publications, 1997. 183-237.
5. Book chapter available
in full-text in a database
Form:
AuthorLastName,
AuthorFirstName. "Title of the Chapter."
Title of the Book. Ed. EditorFirstName EditorLastName.
CityOfPublication: PublisherName, Year. page numbers. FullNameofDatabase.
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN [where you accessed it].
DateYouAccessedIt. <URL of database>
Example:
Rampersad,
Arnold. "Langston Hughes and Approaches to Modernism in the Harlem
Renaissance." The Harlem Renaissance: Reevaluations. Ed. Amritjt
Singh. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989. 49-72. Contemporary Literary
Criticism. Gale Group InfoTrac. Austin Peay State University,
Clarksville, TN. 25 October 2000. <http://www.galegroup.com>
6. Printed book
Form:
Author#1LastName, Author#1FirstName, and Author#2FirstName
Author#2LastName. Title of the Book. CityOfPublication:
Publisher, year.
Example:
Eggins,
Suzanne, and Diane Slade. Analysing Casual Conversation. London:
Cassell, 1997.
7. Electronic book
Form:
AuthorLastName,
AuthorFirstName. Title of the Book. Ed. EditorFirstName
EditorLastName. [if any] YearOfOnlinePublication [if any].
SponsoringOrganization [if any]. DateYouAccessedIt. <http://URL of the
book>.
Examples:
Davis,
Amanda. Extraterrestials: Is There Life in Outer Space? New
York, 1997. 13 March 2001. <http://netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=19641>
Emerson, Ralph
Waldo. Shakespeare; or the Poet. Boston, 1904.
Bartleby.com Great Books Online. 31 January 2001. <http://www.bartleby.com/90/0405.html>
8. Web site
Form:
AuthorLastName,
AuthorFirstName. "Name of Page." NameOfProjectORGroup.
DateOfCreationOfPage. NameOfSponsoringGroup. DateYouAccessedIt
<http://URL for the page>.
Examples:
"This Day in
History: January 29." The History Channel Online. 2000. 29
January 2001 <http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.html>.
Burt, Sharon.
"Maya Angelou." Voices from the Gap, Women Writers of Color.
University of Minnesota. 31 January 2001. < http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/MayaAngelou.html>.
9. CLC Biographical Sketch
Form:
"First Name
LastName." DateOfThePage. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Group
InfoTrac. Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.
DateYouAccessedIt. <http://www.galegroup.com>
Example:
"Ralph
Ellison." 2001. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Group InfoTrac.
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. 14 February 2001. http://www.galegroup.com>
10.Dictionary of Literary
Biography (DLB) essay
Form:
LastNameOfEssayAuthor, FirstNameOfEssayAuthor. "Name of the Person
Who is the Subject of the Essay." TitleOfVolume.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. VolNo. Ed.
FirstNameOfEditor LastNameOfEditor. Detroit: Gale Group,
YearOfPublication. Page#-Page#.
Example:
Lawrence,
Keith, and John Dye. "David Henry Hwang."
Twentieth-Century American Western Writers, 2nd Series.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 212. Ed. Richard H.
Cracroft. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 133-142.
For additional
information, see:
· MLA Handbook for
Writers of Research Papers. RefDesk LB 2369 .G53 (Ask at the
Information Desk)
"Frequently Asked
Questions about MLA Style" section of the MLA's Web site -
http://www.mla.org/style_faq
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