MLA Style Guide

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Edition

Call Number: LB2369 .G53 2009 (Available at the Reference Desk)

INTERNET / ONLINE / ELECTRONIC / OTHER SOURCES:

WEB SITE
General Format:
Author(s) or Editor(s). Title of the work. Title of the Web site. Publisher or Sponsor. Date of Publication.
Web. Date of access. <URL>.
(*Note: For Web publications, include a URL only when you think a reader would need it in order
to find the work cited or if your instructor requires it.)

Example:
Quade, Alex. “Elite Team Rescues Troops behind Enemy Lines.” CNN.com. Cable News Network, 19
Mar. 2007. Web. 5 May 2009. <http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/15/
search.rescue/index.html>.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE
Tyre, Peg. “Standardized Tests in College?” Newsweek. Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2007. Web. 5 May 2009.
<http://www.newsweek.com/id/70750?tid=relatedcl>.
JOURNAL ARTICLE VIA LIBRARY DATABASE
Tolson, Nancy. “Making Books Available: The Role of Early Libraries, Librarians, and Booksellers in the
Promotion of African American Children’s Literature.” African American Review 32.1 (1998): 9-16.
JSTOR. Web. 5 May 2009. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3042263>.
ARTICLE RETRIEVED FROM PACE LIBRARY ELECTRONIC RESERVES
Hagemaster, J. “Use of Therapeutic Touch in Treatment of Drug Addictions.” Holistic Nursing Practice14
(2000): 14-20. Pace University Electronic Reserves. Web. 5 May 2009.
<http://reserves.pace.edu>.
ONLINE BOOK
Davis, Elmer. History of The New York Times, 1851-1921. New York, New York Times, 1921. Google
Book Search. Web. 5 May 2009. < http://books.google.com>.
IMAGE (PHOTOGRAPH, ART) APPEARING ON A WEBSITE
Jones, Sam. Green Day. 27 April 2009. 2009 Rolling Stone Covers. Rolling Stone. Web. 5 May 2009.
<http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/25343237/2009_rolling_stone_covers/photo/10>.

VIDEO / MOTION PICTURE / FILM:

VIDEO APPEARING ON YouTube

C-SPAN. President Barack Obama 2009 Inauguration and Address. YouTube. National Cable Satellite
Corp. 20 Jan. 2009. Web. 5 May 2009. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnygQ02aW4>.
MOTION PICTURE ON A DVD
Saving Private Ryan. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf. Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore and Matt Damon. 1998.
DreamWorks Pictures, 1999. DVD.

FILM STREAMED FROM A WEBSITE

The Great Train Robbery. Dir. Edward Porter. Thomas Edison, 1903. Internet Archive. Web. 5 May 2009.
<http://www.archive.org/details/the-great-trainrobbery>.

BOOKS:
BOOK by ONE author:
Franke, Damon. Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883-1924. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2008.
Print.
BOOK by TWO or THREE authors:
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 2nd ed. Chicago:
U of Chicago P, 2003. Print.
BOOK by FOUR or MORE authors
Plag, Ingo, et al. Introduction to English Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton, 2007. Print.
EDITED BOOK
Shell, Marc, ed. American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni. Cambridge:
Harvard UP, 2002. Print.
WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY
Allende, Isabel. “Toad’s Mouth.” Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. A Hammock beneath the Mangoes:
Stories from Latin America. Ed. Thomas Colchie. New York: Plume,1992. 83-88. Print.
ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK
Allen, Anita L. “Privacy in Health Care.” Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Stephen G. Post. 3rd ed. Vol. 4.
New York: Macmillan-Thomson, 2004. Print.

ARTICLES:

MAGAZINE ARTICLE BY TWO AUTHORS

Weintraub, Arlene and Laura Cohen. “A Thousand-Year Plan for Nuclear Waste.” Business Week 6 May
2002: 94-96. Print.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Jeromack, Paul. “This Once, a David of the Art World Does Goliath a Favor.” New York Times 13 July
2002, late ed.: B7+. Print.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Piper, Andrew. “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything.” PMLA 121.1 (2006):
124-38. Print.
REVIEW
Bordewich, Fergus M. Rev. of Once They Moved like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache
Wars, by David Roberts, and Brave Are My People: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten, by Frank
Waters. Smithsonian Mar. 1994: 125-31. Print.

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