Directory to MLA Works Cited Models

3.      CORPORATE AUTHOR:

            When the author of a print document or Web site is a corporation, a government agency,
            or some other organization, begin with the name of the group.

First Union.

United States. Bureau of the Census.

American Automobile Association.

4.         UNKNOWN AUTHOR:

                 When the author is unknown, begin with the work's title. Titles of articles and other
                 short works, such as brief documents from Web sites, are put in quotation marks.
                 Titles of books and other long works, such as entire Web sites, are underlined.

                Article or other work work
                    "Media Giants."

                Book or other long work
                   Atlas of the World.

5. TWO OR MORE WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

                   If your list of works cited includes two or more works by the same author, use the
                   author's name only for the first entry. For other entries use three hyphens followed
                   by a period. List the titles in alphabetical order.

Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace: A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

---, The Robber Bride. New York: Doubleday, 1993.

BOOKS:

6. BASIC FORMAT FOR A BOOK:

                    For most books, arrange the information into three units, each followed by a period
                    and one space: (1) the author's name; (2) the title and subtitle, underlined; and (3)
                    the place of publication, the publisher, and the date.

7. AUTHOR WITH AN EDITOR:

Kerouac, Jack. Atop an Underwood. Ed. Paul Marion. New York: Penguin, 2000.

8. AUTHOR WITH A TRANSLATOR:

                         Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. New York:

                                Harper, 2000.

9. EDITOR:

Craig, Patricia, ed. The Oxford Book of Travel Stories. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.

10. WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY:

                     Begin with (1) the name of the author of the selection. Then give (2) the title
                    of the selection; (3) the title of the anthology; (4) the name of the editor of the
                    anthology (preceded by "Ed." for "Edited by");(5) publication information;
                     and (6) the pages on which the selection appears.

Desai, Anita. "Scholar and Gypsy." The Oxford Book of Travel Stories.
Ed. Patricia Craig. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. 251-73.

11. EDITION OTHER THAN THE FIRST

Auletta, Ken. The Underclass. 2nd. ed. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2000.

12. MULTIVOLUME WORK:

Conway, Jull Ker, ed. Written by Herself. Vol. 2. New York: Random, 1996. 2 vols.

13. ENCYCLOPEDIA OR DICTIONARY ENTRY:

Posner, Rebecca. "Romance Languages." The New Encyclopaedia Britannic:

Macropaedia. 15 ed. 1987.

"Sonata." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th ed. 2000.

14. SACRED TEXT

Holy Bible: New Living Translation. Wheaton: Tyndale, 1996.

15. FOREWORD, INTRODUCTION, PREFACE, OR AFTERWORD:

Morris, Jan. Introduction. Letters from the Field, 1925-1975. By Margaret Mead.

New York: Perennial-Harper, 2001. xix-xxiii.

16. BOOK WITH A TITLE IN ITS TITLE:

Vanderham, Paul. James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of Ulysses. New York:

New York UP, 1997.

Faulkner, Dewey R., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of "The Pardoner's Tale."

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1973.

17. BOOK IN A SERIES:

Malena, Anne. The Dynamics of Identity in Francophone Caribbean Narrative.

Francophone Cultures and Lits. Ser. 24. New York: Lang, 1998.

18. REPUBLISHED BOOK:

Hughes, Langston. Black Misery. 1969. Afterword Robert O'Meally. New York:

Oxford UP, 2000.

19. PUBLISHER'S IMPRINT:

Truan, Barry. Acoustic Communication. Wesport: Ablex-Greenwood, 2000.

ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS:

NOTE: For articles appear on consecutive pages, provide the page rnage, such as 121-29
               or 298-310. When an article does not appear on consecutive pages, give the number
               of the first page and a plus sign: 32+

20. ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE:

             List (1) the author's name, (2) the title of the article, (3) the title of the magazine,
               and (4) the date and page numbers. Abbreviate the names of the months except
               May, June, and July.

If the magazine is issued monthly, give just the month and year.

Kaplan, Robert D. "History Moving North." Atlantic Monthly Feb. 1997: 21+.

If the magazine is issued weekly, give the exact date.

Lord, Lewis. "There's Something about Mary Todd." US News World Report 19 Feb.

2001: 53.

21. ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL PAGINATED BY VOLUME:

Put the volume number before the year.

Ryan, Katy. "Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction." African American

Review 34 (2000): 389-412.

22.         ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL PAGINATED BY ISSUE:

                 After the volume number, put a period and the issue number.

Wood, Michael. "Broken Dates: Fiction and the Century." Kenyon Review 22.3

(2000): 50-64.

23. ARTICLE IN A DAILY NEWSPAPER:

Murphy, Sean P. "Decisions on Status of Tribes Draw Fire." Boston Globe

27 Mar. 2001: A2.

Wilford, John Noble. "In a Golden Age of Discovery, Faraway Worlds Beckon."

New York Times 9 Feb. 1997, late ed., sec. 1: 1+.

24. EDITORIAL IN A NEWSPAPER:

"All Wet." Editorial. Boston Globe 12 Feb. 2001: A14.

25. LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Moore, Leon. Letter. Chicago Sun-Times 14 Apr. 2003: A11.

26. BOOK OR FILM REVIEW:

Gleick, Elizabeth. "The Burdens of Genius." Rev. of The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt.

Time 4 Dec. 2000:171.

Denby David. "On the Battlefield." Rev of The Hurricane, dir. Norman Jewison. New

                            Yorker 10 Jan. 2000: 90-92.

ELECTRONIC SOURCES:

NOTE: When a Web address in a works cited entry must be divided at the end of a line, MLA
            recommends breaking it after a slash. Do not insert a hyphen.

27.         AN ENTIRE WEB SITE:

   Begin with (1) the name of the author (if known) and (2) the title of the site. Then give
             (3) the names of any editors, (4) the date of publication or last update, (5) the name of
             any sponsoring organization, (6) the date of access, and (7) the URL. Provide as many
             of these elements as apply and as are available.

                            Peterson, Susan Lynn. The Life of Martin Luther. 1999. 9 Mar. 2001

                                   <http://pweb.netcom.com/~supeters/luther.htm>.

United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Values and Functions of Wetlands.

                                    25 May 1999. 24 Mar. 2001 <http://www.epa.gov-owow/wetlands/facts/

                                   fact2.html>.

Margaret Sanger Papers Project. 18 Oct. 2000. History Dept., New York U. 3

Apr. 2001 <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/>.

NOTE: If the site has no title, substitute a description, such as "Home page," for the
title.

Block, Marylaine. Home page. 5 Mar. 2001. 12 Apr. 2001

<http://www.marylaine.com>.

28. SHORT WORK FROM A WEB SITE:

             Short works are those that appear in quotation marks in MLA style: articles and
             other documents that are not book length. For a short work from a Web site, include as
             many of the following elements as apply and as are available: (1) author's name, (2) title
             of the short work, (3) title of the site, (4) date of publication or last update, (5) sponsor of
             the site (if not named as the author or given as the title), (6) date you accessed the source,
              and (7) the URL.

                                 Shiva, Vandana. "Bioethics: A Third World Issue." NativeWeb. 15 Sept. 2001

                                          <http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html>.

"Media Giants." Frontline: The Merchants of Cool. 2001. PBS Online. 7 Mar. 2001

<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/giants>.

                       NOTE: When the URL for a short work from a Web site is long, you may give the
                                        URL for the home page and indicate the path by which readers can access
                                        the source.

"Obesity Trends among U.S. Adults between 1985 and 2001." Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention. 3 Jan. 2003. 17 Feb. 2003 <http://www.cdc.gov/. Path:

Health Topics A-Z; Obesity Trends; U.S. Obesity Trends 1985 to 2001.

29. ONLINE BOOK:

Begin with publication information and end with your date of access and the URL.

Rawlins, Gregory J. E. Moths to the Flame. Cambridge: MIT P, 1996. 3 Apr. 2001

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Moths/contents.html>.

30. PART OF AN ONLINE BOOK:

Adams, Henry. "Diplomacy." The Education of Henry Adams. Boston: Houghton,

1918. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. 1999. 17 Feb. 2003

<http://bartleby.com/159/8.html>.

31.         WORK FROM A SERVICE SUCH AS INFOTRAC (Databases):

   Libraries pay for access to databases through subscription services such as InfoTrac.
                     When you retrieve a work from a subscription service, give as much of the following
                      information as is available: (1) publication information for the source, (2) the name
                     of the database, (3) the name of the service, (4) the name and location of the library
                     where you retrieved the article, (5) your date of access, and (6) the URL of the
                     service.

                     The following models are for articles retrieved through three popular library
                     subscription services. The InfoTrac source is a scholarly article, the EBSCOhost
                     source is an article in a magazine, and the ProQuest source is an article in a daily
                     newspaper.

Johnson, Kirk. "The Mountain Lions of Michigan." Endangered Species Update 19.2

(2002): 27+. Expanded Academic Index. InfoTrac. U of Michigan Lib., Ann

Arbor. 26 Nov. 2002 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

Darnovsky, Marcy. "Embryo Cloning and Beyond." Tikkun July-Aug. 2002: 29-32.

Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. Portland Community Coll. Lib.,

Portland, OR.1 Nov. 2002 <http://search.epnet.com>.

Kolata, Gina. "Scientists Debating Future of Hormone Replacement."

                                        New York Times 23 Oct. 2002: A20. ProQuest. Drew U Lib., Madison, NJ.

                                         26 Nov. 2002 <http://www.proquest.com>.

                         NOTE: When you access a work through a personal subscription service such as
                                        America Online, include the keyword used to retrieve the source.

                               Conniff, Richard. "The House That John Built." Smithsonian Feb. 2001. America

                                        Online. 11 Mar. 2001. Keyword: Smithsonian Magazine.

32. ARTICLE IN AN ONLINE PERIODICAL:

                     When citing online articles, follow the guidelines for printed articles (see items
                     20-26), giving whatever information is available in the online source. End the
                     citation with your date of access and the URL.

NOTE: If the source has numbered paragraphs, include the total number of
paragraphs in your citation.

Belau, Linda "Trauma and the Material Signifier." Postmodern Culture 11.2

(2001): 37 pars. 30 Mar. 2001 <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/

current.issue/11.2belau.html>.

33. CD-ROM:

"Pimpernel." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th ed.

CD-ROM. Boston: Houghton, 2000.

34. E-MAIL:

O'Donnell, Patricia. "Re: Interview questions." E-mail to the author. 15 Mar. 2001.

35. POSTING TO AN ONLINE LIST, FORUM, OR GROUP:

Edwards, David. "Media Lens." Online posting. 20 Dec. 2001. Media Lens

Archives.10 Apr. 2002 <http://groups.yeahoo.com/group/medialens

/message/25>.

Brown, Oliver. "Welcome." Online posting. 8 Oct. 2002. Chester Coll.

Students Web Forum. 20 Feb. 2003 <http://www. voy.com/113243/>.

36. POSTING TO A MUD OR MOO:

Carbone, Nick. Planning for the future. 1 Mar. 2001. TechRhet's Thursday

night MOO.1 Mar. 2001 <telent://connections.moo.mud.org:333>.

MULTIMEDIA SOURCES (INCLUDING ONLINE VERSIONS):

Multimedia sources include visuals, audio works, audio-visuals, and live events.

When citing multimedia sources that you retrieved online, consult the appropriate model in this
section and give whatever information is available; then end the citation with your date of
access and the URL. (See items 37, 40, and 44 for examples.)

37. WORK OF ART:

Constable, John. Dedham Vale. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

van Gogh, Vincent. The Starry Night. 1889. Museum of Mod. Art, New York.

3 Feb. 2003 <http://mom.org/collection/depts/pain_sculpt/blowups/

paint_sculpt_003.html>.

38. CARTOON:

Rall, Ted. "Search and Destroy." Cartoon. Village Voice 23 Jan. 2001: 6.

39. ADVERTISEMENT:

Truth by Calvin Klein. Advertisement. Vogue Dec. 2000: 95-98.

40. MAP OR CHART:

Serbia. Map. 2 Feb. 2001. 17 Mar. 2003 <http://www.biega.com/serbia.html>.

41. MUSICAL COMPOSITION:

Ellington, Duke. Conga Brava.

Haydn, Franz Joseph. Symphony no. 88 in G.

42. SOUND RECORDING:

Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Perf. Jennifer Laramore, Thomas Moser, Angela

Gheorghiu, and Samuel Ramey. Bavarian State Orch. and Chorus. Cond.

Giuseppe Sinopoli. Warner, 1996.

Lavigne, Avril. "Complicated." Let Go. Arista, 2002.

43. FILM OR VIDEO:

Chocolat. Dir. Lasse Hallstom. Perf. Juliette Binoche, Judiy Dench, Alfred

Molina, Lena Olin, and Johnny Depp. Miramax, 2001.

44. RADIO OR TELEVISION PROGRAM:

"Monkey Trial." American Experience. PBS. WGBH, Boston. 18 Mar. 2003.

"Live in 4A: Konstatin Soukhovetski." Performance Today. Natl. Public Radio.

2 May 2002.10 May 2002 <http://www.npr.org/programs/pt/fetaures/4a/

soukhovetski.02.html>.

45. RADIO OR TELEVISION INTERVIEW:

McGovern, George. Interview. Charlie Rose. PBS. WNET, New York. 1 Feb.

2001.

46. LIVE PERFORMANCE:

Art. By Ysmina Reza. Dir. Matthew Warchus. Perf. Philip Franks, Leigh

                                            Lawson, and Simon Shephard. Whitehall Theatre, London. 3 Dec.

                                           2001.

Cello Cocerto N. 2. By Eric Tanguy. Cond. Seiji Ozawa. Perf. Mstislav

Rostropovich. Boston Symphony Orch. Symphony Hall, Boston.

5 Apr. 2002.

47. LECTURE OR PUBLIC ADDRESS:

Cohran, Kelan. "Slavery and Astronomy." Adler Planetarium, Chicago.

21 Feb. 2001.

48. PERSONAL INTERVIEW:

Shaikh, Michael. Personal interview. 22 Mar. 2001.

OTHER SOURCES (INCLUDING ONLINE VERSIONS):

This section includes a variety of traditional print sources not covered elsewhere. For versions
obtained on the Web,consult the appropriate model in this section and give whatever information
is available: then end the citation with the date of access and the URL.

49. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS:

                                     United States. Natl. Council on Disability. Promises to Keep: A Decade of

                                            Federal Enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Washington:

                                            GPO, 2000.

50. LEGAL SOURCE:

For articles of the United States Constitution and laws in the United States Code, no
works cited entry is required; instead, simply give an in-text citation (see item #17).

For legislative act, begin with the name of the act. Then provide the act's Public
Law number, its date of enactment, and its Statutes at Large number.

Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996. Pub. L.

104-418. 2 Oct. 1996. Stat. 3048.

For a court case, name the first plaintiff and first defendant. Then give the case

number, the court name, and the date of the decision.

Utah v. Evans. No. 01-714. Supreme Ct. of the US. 20 June 2002.

51. PAMPHLET:

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Dept. of Jury Commisioner. A Few Facts

about Jury Duty. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1997.

52. DISSERTATION:

Jackson, Shelley. "Writing Whiteness: Contemporary Southern Literature

in Black and White." Diss. U of Maryland, 2000.

53. ABSTRACT OF A DISSERTATION:

Chen, Shu-Ling. "Mothers and Daughters in Morrison, Tan, Marshall,

and Kincaid." Diss. U of Washington, 2000. DAI 61 (2000): 2289.

54. PUBLISHED PROCCEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE:

Kartiganer, Donald M., and Ann J. Abadie. Faulkner at 100: Retrospect

                                                and Prospect. Proc. of Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conf., 27 July-

                                                1 Aug. 1997, U. of Mississippi. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000.

55.            PUBLISHED INTERVIEW:

                                           Renoir, Jean. "Renoir at Home: Interview with Jean Renoir." Film Quarterly

                                                    50.1 (1996): 2-8.

56. PERSONAL LETTER:

Coggins, Christopher. Letter to the author. 6 May 2001.