MLA - In-Text Citations: Wherever you incorporate another's words, facts, or ideas, cite the author's last name and a page reference.
MLA - Works Cited: This section of your essay lists all works used in the text of your paper. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name or, if the author's name is unknown, by the title of the work. In the "Works Cited" list, second and subsequent lines in citations should be indented one-half inch, or five spaces; see Section 4.4 of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
| Type of Entry | In-Text Citation Form | Works Cited Form | Section |
| Book. Single Author | (Keyser 75). | Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox. Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1993. | 4.6.1 |
| Book. Two or Three Authors | (Blocker, Plummer, and Richardson 52-57). | Blocker, Clyde E., Robert H. Plummer, and Richard C. Richardson, Jr. The Two-Year College: A Social Synthesis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1965. NOTE: If there are more than three authors, name only the first and add et al. or name each author. |
4.6.4 |
| No Author Given | (A Handbook of Korea 241-47). | A Handbook of Korea. 4th ed. Seoul: Korean Overseas Information Service, Ministry of Culture and Information, 1982. | 4.6.11 |
| Author's Work in an Anthology | (Auerbach 10). | Auerbach, Nina. "Jane Austen and Romantic Imprisonment." Jane Austen in a Social Context. Ed. David Monaghan. Totowa, NJ: Barnes, 1981. 9-27. | 4.6.7 |
| A Multivolume Work | (Daiches 2: 538-39). | Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York: Ronald, 1970. | 4.6.15 |
| Edition Other Than the First | (Chaucer 545). | Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F.N. Rob- inson. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1957. | 4.6.14 |
| A Republished Book | (Doctorow 209-12). | Doctorow, E.L. Welcome to Hard Times. 1960. New York: Bantam, 1976. | 4.6.17 |
| A Book in a Series | (Reiman 113). | Reiman, Donald H. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Updated ed. Twayne's English Authors Series. 81. Boston: Twayne, 1989. | 4.6.16 |
| An Article in a "Familiar" Reference Book | ("Wasatch Range"). | "Wasatch Range." Encyclopedia Americana. 1993 ed. | 4.6.8 |
| Article in a Journal | (Spear 94). | Spear, Karen. "Building Cognitive Skills in Basic Writers." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 9 (1983): 91-98. | 4.7.1 |
| Article from a Weekly or Biweekly Magazine | (Gleick 33). | Gleick, Elizabeth. "Sex, Betrayal and Murder." Time 17 July 1995: 32-33+. | 4.7.6 |
| Article from a Monthly or Bimonthly Magazine | (Snyder 68). | Snyder, Mark. "Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes." Psychology Today July 1982: 60-68. | 4.7.6 |
| Article from a Newspaper | (Jereski C1). | Jereski, Laura. "Entertainment Stocks: Is a Boffo Performance Over?" Wall Street Journal 1 Aug. 1995, eastern ed.: C1+. | 4.7.5 |
| Film Review | (Harrington D1). | Harrington, Richard. "Under Siege 2: Railroad Ruckus." Rev. of Under Siege 2. Washington Post 15 July 1995: D1+. | 4.7.7 |
| Interview | (Morganis). | Morganis, Nancy. Telephone Interview. 8 Aug. 1995. | 4.8.7 |
| Television program | ("Debate on Welfare Reform"). | "Debate on Welfare Reform." Face the Nation. CBS. 6 Aug. 1995. | 4.8.1 |
| Electronic Source: Document Within Online Scholarly Project | ("Kosovo"). | "Kosovo." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 13 Sept. 1999 <http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=47187&sctn=1>. | 4.9.2b |
| Electronic Source: Personal or Professional Site | (Maxwell Library Home Page). | Maxwell Library Home Page. 3 Aug. 1999. Clement C. Maxwell Library, Bridgewater State College. 13 Sept. 1999 <http://www.bridgew.edu/Library>. | 4.9.2c |
| Electronic Source: Article in Online Periodical | (Hixon 2). | Hixon, Allen L. "Preventing Street Gang Violence." American Family Physician 59.8 (April 1999): 4 pp. 3 Aug 1999 <http://www.epnet.com/ehost/login.html> | 4.9.4 |
If you cannot determine the medium of a source, follow the format for A Work in an Indeterminate Medium, section 4.9.8.
Author's Name in Text: If you include the author's name in a sentence, you need not repeat it in the parenthetical page citation that follows.
Subsequent Citations. In-Text Form: Put a comma after the last name(s) of the author(s) and add the title of the work (if brief), or a shortened version, and the relevant page reference: (Boroff, Wallace Stevens 2), (Durant and Durant, Age of Voltaire 214-48). If you state the author's name in the text, give only the title and page reference: (Wallace Stevens 2), (Age of Voltaire 214-48). If you include both the author's name and the title in the text, indicate only the pertinent page number(s) in the parentheses: (2), (214-48).
Works Cited Form: See the suggested format in Section 4.6.3 of the Handbook.
FOR ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES AND INSTRUCTIONS, SEE THE MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS, ON RESERVE AT THE CIRCULATION DESK.