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 FormatScholarly 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

CapitalizationMacColl, 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.

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

BooksThe easiest thing to cite.

The Format: BasicLast Name, First Name. Title. City of Publication: Name of Publisher, Year. Print.

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

Other Information• Editor• Translator• Original publication date• Multiple authors

EditorFarber, Bernard, and Eric Larson, eds.

Eds. Bernard Farber and Eric Larson.

Original Publication DatePut 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 AuthorsParke, 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.”

TranslatorSchorr, Burt, trans.

Trans. Burt Schorr.

They’ve already started their

research, and every source is Google

The FormatLast 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.

ExceptionsNo 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