Oldmans Township School Media Center
Work Cited Help
Citation Machine - Helps with creating bibliographies for class
Easy Bib - Free automated bibliography and citation generator. Save time by creating a Works Cited page instantly.
World Book Citation Builder - Must use our school's username name and password. Please see Mrs. Takacs if you don't know it.
MLA 7 Reference Guide From EasyBib
http://easybib.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/quickguide-mla2.pdf
Book
MLA: Last, First M. Book. City: Publisher, Year Published. Medium.
Ex:
Carley, Michael J. 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Chicago: Dee, 1999. Print.
Chapter/Anthology
MLA:
Last, First M. “Section Title.” Book/Anthology. Ed. First M. Last. Edition. City: Publisher, Year Published. Page(s). Medium.
Ex: Melville, Herman. Hawthorne and His Mosses. The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Ed. Nina Baym. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1989. 5-25. Print.
*Essays, shorts stories, and poems are put in quotes. Works originally published independently such as plays and novels generally are italicized.
Magazine
MLA: Last, First M. “Article Title.” Magazine Title Date Month Year Published: Page(s). Medium.
Ex: Pressman, Aaron. "Bottom Fishing in Rough Waters." BusinessWeek 29 Sept. 2008: 27. Print.
Newspaper
MLA: Last, First M. “Article Title.” Newspaper Title Date Month Year Published: Page(s). Medium.
Ex: Campoy, Ana. "Gasoline Surges in Southeast After Ike." The Wall Street Journal 23 Sept. 2008: A14. Print.
Journal
Journal
MLA: (two authors)
Last, First M., and First M. Last. “Article Title.” Journal Title Volume.Issue (Year): Page(s). Medium.
Ex: Bharadwaj, Parag, and Katerine T. Ward. "Ethical Considerations of Patients with Pacemakers." American Family Physician 78 (2008): 398-99. Print.
Website
MLA:
Last, First M. “Article Title.” Website Title. Publisher, Date Month Year. Web. Date Month Year. .
Ex: Satalkar, Bhakti. “Water Aerobics." Buzzle.com. Buzzle.com, 15 July 2010. Web. 16 July 2010.
Online Database (Journal)
MLA:
Last, First M. “Article Title.” Journal Title Volume.Issue (Year): Page(s). Database Name.
Web. Day Month Year. .
Ahn, Hyunchul, and Kyoung-jae Kim. "Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Nearest Neighbors
for Data Mining." Annals of Operations Research 263.1 (2008): 5-18. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 Sept. 2008.
*Note that months in MLA are abbreviated. For example, “February” is “Feb.”
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