Becoming One with Your

Inner MLA God(dess)

Types of Students

• Those who haven’t started their research.• Those who are in the process of conducting

research.• Those who have completed their research.

Starting Research

• The library is your best friend.

Why?

It generates the citations

for you!

The Format

volume.issue

The Format

Scholarly journal article from an online database to which the library subscribes.

Last Name, First Name. “Article Name.” Periodical Name Volume.Issue (Year): Inclusive Page Numbers. Database Name. Web. Date of Access.

Watch Out for These

• Capitalization• Italics

Capitalization

MacColl, Alan. "King Arthur And The Making Of An English Britain." History Today 49.3 (1999): 7. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Dec. 2012.

MacColl, Alan. “KING ARTHUR AND THE MAKING OF AN ENGLISH BRITAIN." History Today 49.3 (1999): 7. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Dec. 2012.

Italics

MacColl, Alan. "King Arthur and the Making of an English Britain." History Today 49.3 (1999): 7. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Dec. 2012.

Books

The easiest thing to cite.

The Format: Basic

Last Name, First Name. Title. City of Publication: Name of Publisher, Year. Print.

The Format: Chapter

Last Name, First Name. “Chapter.” Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Inclusive page numbers. Print.

Other Information

• Editor• Translator• Original publication date• Multiple authors

Editor

Farber, Bernard, and Eric Larson, eds.

Eds. Bernard Farber and Eric Larson.

Original Publication Date

Put the original date after the title. Otherwise, continue as usual.

Trilling, Lionel. The Liberal Imagination. 1950. New York: New York Review of Books, 2008. Print.

Multiple Authors

Parke, Ross, Lorna McKee, and Margaret O’Brien.

Parke, Ross, et al.

Et al.

“Et al.” means “et alii,” Latin for “and those other dudes.”

Do not put a period after “et.”

Translator

Schorr, Burt, trans.

Trans. Burt Schorr.

They’ve already started their

research, and every source is Google

The Format

Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Website. Company that Produces the Website, Date of Publication. Web. Date of Access.

Sneed, Tierney. “Should Universities Pay Their Student Athletes?” U.S. News. U.S. News & World Report LP, 18 Aug. 2011. Web. 30 Dec. 2012.

If It Doesn’t Exist, You Can’t Put It In

the Citation

Skip any information that can’t be found.

Exceptions

No publisher: n.p.No date: n.d.

Sneed, Tierney. “Should Universities Pay Their Student Athletes?” U.S. News. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Dec. 2012.

Citation Generators

• MS Word Generator• Easybib• Noodle Tools

Formatting

• Hanging indents• Margins• Space after paragraphs