Common citations for an MLA formatted Works Cited page:
When we write or speak and reference work from another author, we always need to give credit to that author. There are many different formats for doing this. The HHS English department uses the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) formatting.
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Book
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Periodical (Magazine Article)
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Website
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Basic Format
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Author’s name. Title of the book. Publication
information.
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Author’s name. “Title of the article.” Magazine Title
Date: Page Numbers. Print.
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Author’s name. Title of the website. Sponsor of
the website, Date of publication. Web. Date
you accessed the website. .
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Sample
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Anderson, Laurie Halse. Twisted. New
York: Penguin Group, 2007. Print.
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Haupt, Angela. “Health Buzz: Dogs Can Detect Lung
Cancer.” U.S. News and World
Report 18 August 2011: 32. Print.
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Hylton, Jeremy. The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare. The Tech, Web. 31
August 2011. <http://shakespeare.mit.edu>.
Note that you can’t always find all the information for a website citation. Skip over the parts you can’t find. In this citation I could not find a date of publication, so I just used the date I accessed the site.
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A good site for additional MLA information is:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
An online guide for formatting citations is: (Be sure to double check citations for accuracy)
www.easybib.com
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