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Citation Guide

MLA Citation Examples

Book with One Author

Template:

Author Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. Title of Work: Capital Letter Also for Subtitle. Publisher Name, Date of publication. 

 

Example:

Stoneman, Richard. Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend. Yale UP, 2008.  

 

Book Chapter

Template:

Author Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. "Title of Chapter."  Title of Book: Capital Letter also for Subtitle, edited by Editor's Name(s), Publisher, Date of publication, Page range of entry. 

 

Example:

Armstrong, Dorsey. "Malory and Character." A New Companion to Malory, edited by Megan G. Leitch and Cory J. Rushton, D. S. Brewster, 2019, pp. 144-63.  

Journal Article from a Database with One Author

Template:

Author Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, vol. number, issue number, Date of Publication, Page(s), Database, DOI or URLAccess Date (if requested by instructor).

Example:

Bolger, Ashlee. "Normal Childhood Development Curriculum in a Pediatric Rehabilitation Training Program: An Interactive, Novel Approach." Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, vol. 13, no. 1, 2020, pp. 57-62. Academic Search Complete, DOI: 10.3233/PRM-190645. Accessed 8 Sept. 2019.  

 

Journal Article from a Database with Two Authors

The first author should be listed as last name, first name and then middle name or initial. Separate the author names with a comma and then the word and; the second author name should be listed as first name middle name or initial and the last name. 

Example:

Soto, Christopher J., and Oliver P. John. "The Next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and Assessing a Hierarchical Model with 15 Facets to Enhance Bandwidth, Fidelity, and Predictive Power." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 113, no. 1, Jul. 2017, pp. 117- 43. Academic Search Complete, DOI:10.1037/pspp0000096. Accessed 14 Mar. 2021. 

 

Journal Article from a Database with Three or More Authors

List only the first author, followed by a comma and then et al.

Example:

Nguyen, Tina, et al. "Metamotivational Knowledge of the Role of High-Level and Low-Level Construal in Goal-Relevant Task Performance." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 117, no. 5, Nov. 2019, pp. 879-99. Academic Search Complete, DOI:10.1037/pspa0000166. Accessed 5 Jan. 2021. 

 

Newspaper Article

Template:

Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. "Title of Article." Title of Publication, Date of Publication, URL (if online source). Access Date (if requested by instructor).

 

Example:

Kornfield, Meryl. "First Known Patient Reinfected with South Africa Coronavirus Variant is in Critical Condition." Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/13/reinfection-south-africa-variant/. Accessed 9 Mar. 2021

 

Magazine Article

Template:

Author Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, vol. number, issue number, Date of Publication, pages.

 

Example:

Peterzell, Jay. "Better Late Than Never." Time, vol. 135, no. 17, 23 Apr. 1990, p. 25.

Webpage

Template:

Author Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. "Title of Work." Title of Container, Publisher, Date of Publication, URL. Access Date (if requested by instructor).

 

Example:

Price, Devon. "Laziness Does Not Exist." Human Parts, Medium, 23 Mar. 2018, https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01. Accessed 22 Dec. 2020.

 

YouTube Video

Template:

"Title of Video." Web Host, Uploader, Date of Publication, URL.

 

Example:

"Soft robotic gripper for jellyfish." YouTube, uploaded by Harvard University, 28 Aug. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guRoWTYfxMs.

 

Blog

Template:

Author or Compiler Name. "Posting Title." Name of Site, Date of Publication, URL. Access Date (if requested by instructor).

 

Example:

Axelrod, Josh. "A Century Later: The Treaty of Versailles and Its Rejection of Racial Equality." NPR, 11 Aug. 2019, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/08/11/742293305/a-century-later-the-treaty-of-versailles-and-its-rejection-of-racial-equality. Accessed 1 May 2021.

 

Tweet

Template:

Handle. "Title of Work." Twitter, Date of Publication, URL.

 

Example:

@NatGeo. "Scientists knew African grays are clever, but now they've been documented assisting other members of their species-even strangers." Twitter, 12 Jan. 2020, https://twitter.com/NatGeo/status/1216346352063537154.

Please check with your professor before using content produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI). Visit this webpage for more information. See the MLA Style Guide for additional examples.

Artificial Intelligence

Template:

"Description of chat" prompt. Name of AI tool, version of AI tool, Company, Date of chat, URL.

 

Example:

"Examples of harm reduction initiatives" prompt. ChatGPT, 23 Mar. version, OpenAI, 4 Mar. 2023, chat.openai.com/chat.