MLA Style Guide

Below are the most used sources in Middle and Upper School. This is a quick guide and does not include every citation for all print and electronic resources. If you do not see the source you are using in this guide consult the librarian or the MLA style guide.

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Books

• Single author/ editor
  

  (Format) Author's Last name, First Name. Title of book. Place of publication: Name of publisher, Copyright Date.

  Eliot, Alexander. The Horizon Concise History of Greece. New York: American Heritage, 1972.

• Two or three authors/ editors
  

  (Format) 1^st authors last name, first name and 2^nd and/or 3^rd authors first name and last names. Title of book. Place of publication: Name of publisher, Copyright Date.

  Grant, Michael and Rachel Kitzinger. Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner's, 1988.

• More than three authors/ editors
  

  (Format) 1^st authors last name, first name, et al. Title of book. Place of publication: Name of publisher, Copyright date.

  Andrew, William, et al. The Oxford companion to African American literature. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.

• Unknown author
  

  (Format) Title of book.

  Atlas of the World.

• Work in an Anthology
  

  (Format) Name of Author that you have selected-Last name, first name. "Title of selection." Title of anthology. Name of the editor of the anthology. Name of publisher, copyright date. Page(s) of the selection.

  Ginsberg, Allen. "America." The portable Beat Reader. Ed. Ann Charters. Viking Penguin: Penguin Books, 1992. 74-77.

• Multivolume Set

  (Format) Editor/ authors Last name, first name. Title of set. Volume that was used. Place of publication: Publisher, copyright date. Number of volumes in set.

  Robinson, Richard, ed. Genetics. Vol. 3 New York: Thompson Gale, 2003. 4 vols.

• Encyclopedia entry

  (Format) Editor/ authors(if given) Last name, first name. "Title of selection." Title of encyclopedia. Edition used. Copyright date.

  "Groundhog Day" The Encyclopedia Americana. International ed. 2000.

Articles in periodicals

• Single author/ weekly magazine

  (Format) Author last name, first name. "Title of article." Title of magazine and date: page number. (Abbreviate months).

  Hendrickson, Matt. "On the road." Rolling Stone 16 Oct. 1997: 28.

• Single author/ paginated by issue

  (Format) Author last name, first name. "Title of article." Title of magazine and issue number, (year) and page numbers.

  Kohn, Alfie. "Unconditional teaching." Educational Leadership 63.1 (2005): 20-24.

• Single author/ daily newspaper

  (Format) Author last name, first name. "Title of article." Title of newspaper and date, year: section.

  Pope, Justin. "Princeton tops U.S. News rankings, again." U.S. News 17 Aug. 2007: A2

Electronic Sources

• Web site

  (Format) Authors last name, first name (if known) OR Name of organization. Title of site. Date of publication or last update. Name of sponsoring organization (if given). Date of access and the URL.

  Public Broadcasting Station. 1951, The Catcher in the Rye. March 2007. Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 28 June. 2007 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/thecatcherintherye.html

• Databases (i.e.-Gale, Sirs, ProQuest, ext.)

  (Format) Authors last name, first name (if known). "Title of article." Title of publication and publication information. The name of the database. Name of publisher. The name of the school date you accessed the information and URL.

  Hess, John L. "Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War." The Nation. v256. n17 (May 3, 1993): p605(2). Student Resource Center - Bronze. Thomson Gale. Lancaster Country Day School. 17 Aug. 2007 http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=SRC-3&docId=A13804983&source=gale&userGroupName=lanc45329&version=1.0 .