MLA Citation:

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MLA Citation

• Getting it Right!

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BOOKS

• One Author Bode, J. Death is hard
  to live with Teenagers and how the cope with
  loss. New York Delacorte Press, 1999.
• Two or More Authors Monroe, J. G.,
  Williamson, R. A. First houses Native American
  homes and sacred structures. Boston Houghton,
  1993.
• Anonymous Book Publication manual
  of the American Psychological Association (4th
  ed.).Washington, DC American Psychological
  Association, 1998.
• A Translation Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich.
  Fathers and Sons. Trans. Michael R. Katz. New
  York Norton, 1994.

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More Books

• Single Work from an Anthology Perkins, D. N.
  Why the human perceiver is a bad machine.
  Human and machine vision (pp. 341-364). New
  York Academic Press. 2002.
• Article in a Reference Book Lynch, A. C.
  Russia. Colliers encyclopedia (pp. 279- 280).
  New York P. F. Collier, 1996.
• Government Publication National Aeronautics
  and Space Administration. Human spaceflight
  Student activities (NASA Report No. 89- 10639).
  Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office,
  1997.

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

• Using MLA citation style (from Bedford/ St.
  Martins http//www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cit
  ex.html)1. World Wide Web site 2. Email
  message 3. Web discussion forum posting
  4. Listserv message 5. Newsgroup message
  6. Real-time communication 7. Telnet, FTP, and
  gopher sites

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PARENTHETICAL REFERENCES

• One Author Consumerism has become a
  national obsession (Jones, 1998, p. 12).
• Multiple Authors Teenagers who feel
  maladjusted in some aspect of their lives are
  likely to think of themselves as unpopular
  (Reinherz et al., 1994).
• Anonymous World population still
  expands, but more slowly now (New Hope, 2000).
• Indirect (or Secondary) Source
  This process has been illuminated by Hannover (as
  cited in Montrose, 1998).
• Personal Communications (letters, emails, phone
  conversations, etc.) The
  management team expects to finish hiring this
  spring (R. Fouser, personal communication, Dec.
  17, 1999).

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PERIODICALS

• Signed Article in a Magazine Fishman, K. D.
  Problem adoptions. The Atlantic, 270 Mar.
  1998 37-69.
• Unsigned Article in a Magazine Saving the
  elephant, natures great masterpiece Banning the
  Ivory trade is the wrong way to save Africas
  vanishing elephants. Economist 1 Jul.
  198915-17.
• Signed Newspaper Article Trost, C. Born to
  lose Babies of crack users crowd hospitals,
  break everybodys heart. The Wall Street
  Journal, 18 Jul. 1998 1.
• Unsigned Newspaper Article Angry pilot quits
  airliner on field as passenger suggests he is
  drunk. The New York Times, 22 Apr. 1990 20.

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OTHER SOURCES

• Interview by the Author (yourself)
  OConnell, Amanda. Telephone Interview. 7 Jan.
  2004.
• CD-ROM Sepoy Rebellion.
  Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia. CD- ROM. 1998
  ed. Redmond Microsoft, 1998.
• Film, Video, DVD, etc. Going
  Back A Return to Vietnam. DVD. Virginia
  Productions, 1982.
• Map or Chart Wisconsin Territory. Map.
  Madison Wisconsin Trails, 1998.