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Text Box: MRHS English - Works Cited Pages
MLA (Modern Languages Association) Citation Quick Guide (The Basics)

Books
Author(s). Title of Book (underlined). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999.

Article From a Reference Book
“Title.” Name of encyclopedia(underlined). Year of Publication
"Jamaica." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1999 ed.
Electronic Sources (Most Common)
1. Work From a Subscription Service (Online Database)
At MRHS, we use the Ebscohost You can also access this at home. Provide the following information:

Author (if listed, if not start with the title).
Title of the article in quotation marks.
Title of the source (name of the newspaper, magazine, etc.) underlined
Date of publication (note the format shown: day then the month in three letters then the year).
Name of the subscription service. Method of access. Date of access
URL of the service in angle brackets. (Use exactly what is shown in the examples.)
Note the only difference in the two examples is the first has no author listed.
"Universities Combat Surge in Net Plagiarism." Ottawa Citizen 26 Dec. 2001. Electric Library. Morell High School. 25 Oct. 2006    <http://www.ebscohost.com>.

Clyde, Anne. "Electronic plagiarism: (bibliography)." Teacher Librarian Oct. 2001. Electric Library. PEI Provincial Library Service.
         26 Oct 2007 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.
2. World Wide Web
Provide the following information:

author's name (if known). title of document, in quotation marks. title of complete work (if relevant) or organization, underlined. date of publication (or last revision
date of access) <URL, in angle brackets>.
Wourms, David. "Biography." 2000. 5 Oct. 2006 <http://www.farleymowat.com/biography.asp>
“Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format.” OWL at Purdue University. 2004. 5 Oct. 2006
          <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Print>.

NOTE: If any citation takes up two lines, the second line is ALWAYS indented by five spaces or one tab. See examples above.
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