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Basic Forms for Sources in Print

The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers provides extensive examples covering a wide variety of potential sources. If your particular case is not covered here, use the basic forms to determine the correct format, consult the MLA Handbook, or call or email the Writing Lab (765-494-3723) for help.

A book

     Author(s). Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of

          Publication.

Book with one author

     Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999.

Two books by the same author

(After the first listing of the author's name, use three hyphens and a period for the author's name. List books alphabetically.)

Palmer, William J. Dickens and New Historicism.  New York:

     St. Martin's, 1997.

---. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Carbondale:

     Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

Book with more than one author

     Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide

          to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000.

N.B. If there are more than three authors, you may list only the first author followed by the phrase et al. (the abbreviation for the Latin phrase "and others") in place of the other authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page.

Book with a corporate author

American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. New York: Random, 1998.

Book or article with no author named

     Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York: Somerset, 1993.

     "Cigarette Sales Fall 30% as California Tax Rises."  New York Times 

		 14 Sept. 1999: A17.

N.B. For parenthetical citations of sources with no author named, use a shortened version of the title instead of an author's name. Use quotation marks and underlining as appropriate. For example, parenthetical citations of the two sources above would appear as follows: (Encyclopedia 235) and ("Cigarette" A17).

Anthology or collection

     Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. 
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.

A part of a book (such as an essay in a collection)

     Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's 

          Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Pages.

Essay in a collection

     Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers."

          A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. 

          Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. 24-34.

Cross-referencing: If you cite more than one essay from the same edited collection, you should cross-reference within your works cited list in order to avoid writing out the publishing information for each separate essay. To do so, include a separate entry for the entire collection listed by the editor's name. For individual essays from that collection, simply list the author's name, the title of the essay, the editor's last name, and the page numbers. For example:

     L'Eplattenier, Barbara. "Finding Ourselves in the Past: An Argument

           for Historical Work on WPAs."  Rose and Weiser 131-40.

     Peeples, Tim.  "'Seeing' the WPA With/Through Postmodern Mapping."

           Rose and Weiser 153-167.

     Rose, Shirley K., and Irwin Weiser, eds.  The Writing Program

           Administrator as Researcher.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann,

           1999.

Article from a reference book

     "Jamaica." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1999 ed.

An article in a periodical (such as a newspaper or magazine)

     Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Source Day Month Year:

          pages.

N.B. When citing the date, list day before month; use a three-letter abbreviation of the month (e.g. Jan., Mar., Aug.). If there is more than one edition available for that date (as in an early and late edition of a newspaper), identify the edition following the date (e.g. 17 May 1987, late ed.).

Magazine or newspaper article

    Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71.

    Trembacki, Paul. "Brees Hopes to Win Heisman for Team."  Purdue Exponent

          5 Dec. 2000: 20.

An article in a scholarly journal

     Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Vol (Year): pages.

N.B. "Vol" indicates the volume number of the journal. If the journal uses continuous pagination throughout a particular volume, only volume and year are needed, e.g. Modern Fiction Studies 40 (1998): 251-81. If each issue of the journal begins on page 1, however, you must also provide the issue number following the volume, e.g. Mosaic 19.3 (1986): 33-49.

Essay in a journal with continuous pagination

     Allen, Emily. "Staging Identity: Frances Burney's Allegory of Genre."  

          Eighteenth-Century Studies 31 (1998): 433-51.

Essay in a journal that pages each issue separately

     Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as 

          Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise." Arizona Quarterly 

          50.3 (1994): 127-53.

     Author(s). Name of Page. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization 


		 affiliated with the site.  Date of Access <electronic address>.

     Felluga, Dino. Undergraduate Guide to Literary Theory. 17 Dec. 1999. Purdue University.  

		 15 Nov. 2000 <http://omni.cc.purdue.edu%7Efelluga/theory2.html>.

     Author(s)."Article Title." Name of web site. Date of posting/revision. Name of  

          institution/organization affiliated with site. Date of access <electronic address>.

     Poland, Dave. "The Hot Button." Roughcut. 26 Oct. 1998.  Turner Network Television.  

          28 Oct. 1998 <http://www.roughcut.com>.

     Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume. Issue

          (Year): Pages/Paragraphs. Date of Access <electronic

          address>.

     Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological

           and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000):

           33 pars. 5 Dec. 2000 <http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no6/wheelis.htm>.

     Author. "Title of the message (if any)" E-mail to the author. Date of the message.

     Author. "Title of Posting." Online posting. Date when material was posted (for example: 14 
Mar. 1998). Name of listserv. Date of access <electronic address for retrieval>.

     "World War II." Encarta. CD-ROM. Seattle: Microsoft, 1999.

     Reed, William. "Whites and the Entertainment Industry."

          Tennessee Tribune 25 Dec. 1996: 28. Ethnic

          NewsWatch.  CD-ROM.  Data Technologies.  Feb. 1997.
 

      United States Dept. of Health and Human Services. Healthy People 2010:

          Understanding and Improving Health. Washington: GPO, 2000.

      Purdue, Pete. Personal Interview. 1 Dec. 2000.

      Lufthansa. Advertisement. Time 20 Nov. 2000: 151. 

      "The Blessing Way." The X-Files. Fox. WXIA, Atlanta. 19 Jul. 1998.

      U2. All That You Can't Leave Behind. Interscope, 2000.

      The Usual Suspects. Dir. Bryan Singer. Perf. Kevin Spacey,
    Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, and 

    Benecio del Toro.  Polygram, 1995.