MLA Style: Sample Bibliographic Entries (7th edition) 1 MLA Style: Sample Bibliographic Entries (7th edition) The Modern Language Association (MLA) documentation format uses in-text citations that briefly identify the source of the information, enabling the reader to locate a full bibliographic entry in the list of Works Cited at the end of the essay, article, or book. Responding to changes in the delivery of materials and methods of scholarship, the new, 7th edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers incorporates major changes. MLA In –Text Citations: Whenever you incorporate another’s words, facts, or ideas, cite the author’s last name and a page reference, if print material, in a parenthetical reference. For electronic sources, use the author’s name and paragraph number, if provided. If you include the author’s name in a sentence, you need not repeat it in the parenthetical reference; only include the page (s) or paragraph. See Section 6.2 of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, on reserve at the Circulation Desk. MLA Works Cited: This section of your essay lists all sources used in the text of your paper. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the author’s last name or, if the author’s name is unknown, by the title of the work. In the Works Cited list, which is double spaced, second and subsequent lines of citations should be indented. See Section 5.3 of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. A major change in MLA format is that the medium of the source is specified. See examples. Another change is that a URL is only included if the source is difficult to locate without it. Note: The following examples have been adjusted to save space. Please see the handbook for proper format (page setup, line spacing, margins). Books Type of Entry In-Text Citation Works Cited Section of Handbook Book, Single Author (Keyser 75). Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox. 5.5.2 Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1993. Print. Electronic Book Single Author (Cole 48). Cole, Leonard A. The Anthrax 5.6.2 Letters: A Medical Detective Story. Washington, DC: National Academies, 2003. NetLibrary. Web. 30 June 2009. Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University2 Book, Two or More (Sternberg and Sternberg, Robert J., and Karin 5.5.4 Authors Sternberg 104). Sternberg. Nature of Hate. New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. Print. Note: If there are more than three authors, name only the first and add et al (“and others”),or name each author (5.5.4). Author’s Work (Auerbach 10). Auerbach, Nina. “Jane Austen and 5.5.6 in an Anthology Romantic Imprisonment.” Jane Austen in a Social Context. Ed. David Monaghan. Totowa, NJ: Barnes, 1981. 9-27. Print. A Multivolume (Tannenbaum and Tannenbaum, Samuel, and Dorothy 5.5.14 Work Tannenbaum 5: 6). Tannenbaum. Elizabethan Bib- liographies. 10 vols. 1937-1950. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1967. Print. Note: The above example is also a republished book (5.5.16). Periodicals Article in a (Brokaw 21). Brokaw, Tom. “Walter 5.4.6 Weekly Magazine Cronkite.” Time 3 Aug. 2009: 20-21. Print. Article in a (“Murder Is “Murder Is Murder.” Macleans 5.6.4. Weekly Magazine Murder”). 20 Apr. 2009: 10. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 13 Aug. 2009. Note: When there is no author cited, use the title of the work (5.4.9). Note: When citing from a one-page work, it is unnecessary to include a page number in the parenthetical reference (6.2). Article in a (MacMullan). MacMullan, Jackie. “New Tricks 5.4.5 Newspaper for Old Underdogs.” Boston & Globe 12 Jan. 2008, 3rd ed.: C1. 5.6.4 LexisNexis. Web. 13 Aug. 2009 Article in a (Wood 72). Wood, Graeme. “Moving Heaven 5.4.6 Monthly Magazine and Earth.” The Atlantic July/Aug. 200: 70-76. Print. Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University3 Article in a (Bell 377). Bell, Christine. “Peace Agreements.” 5.6.4 Journal The American Journal of Inter- National Law. 100.2 (Apr. 2006): 373-412. JSTOR. Web. 8 July 2009. Some Other Examples Web Site (Stanton). Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. “Address 5.6.1 on Women’s Rights.” The Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers Project. Rutgers. July 2009. Web. 13 Aug. 2009. . Note: URL included to facilitate location of source Interview (Cruz). Cruz, Nancy. Telephone Interview. 5.7.7 14 July 2008, Television (“Greedy Geezers”). “Greedy Geezers.” Narr. John 5.7.1 Program Stossel. 20/20. ABC. WCVB. Boston. 8 May 2009. Television. Video (Mystic River). Mystic River. Dir. Clint Eastwood. 5.7.3 Perf. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Lawrence Fish- burn, and Marcia Gay Harden. 2003. Warner, 2004. DVD. For complete instructions and additional examples, see the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, on Reserve at the Circulation Desk. Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University4 Works Cited Auerbach, Nina. “Jane Austen and Romantic Imprisonment.” Jane Austen in a Social Context. Ed. David Monaghan. Totowa, NJ: Barnes, 1981. 9-27. Print. Bell, Christine. “Peace Agreements.” The American Journal of International Law. 100.2 (Apr. 2006): 373-412. JSTOR. Web. 8 July 2009. Brokaw, Tom. “Walter Cronkite.” Time 3 Aug. 2009: 20-21. Print. Cole. Leonard. A. The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story. Washington, DC: National Academies, 2003. NetLibrary. Web. 30 June 2009. Cruz, Nancy. Telephone Interview. 14 July 2003. “Greedy Geezers.” Narr. John Stossel. 20/20. ABC. WCVB. Boston. 8 May 2009. Television. Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox. Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1993. Print. MacMullan. Jacie. “New Tricks for Old Underdogs.” Boston Globe 12 Jan 2008, 3rd ed.: C1. LexisNexis. Web. 13 Aug. 2009. “Murder Is Murder.” Macleans 20 Apr. 2009: 10. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 13 Aug. 2009. Mystic River. Dir. Clint Eastwood. Perf. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Lawrence Fishburn., and Marcia Gay Harden. 2003. Warner, 2004. DVD. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. “Address on Women’s Rights.” The Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers Project. Rutgers. July 2009. Web. 13 Aug. 2009. ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/ecswoman1.html. . Sternberg, Robert J., and Karin Sternberg. Nature of Hate. New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. Print. Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University5 Tannenbaum, Samuel, and Dorothy Tannenbaum. Elizabethan Bibliographies. 10 vols. 1937-1950. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1967. Print. Wood, Graeme. “Moving Heaven and Earth.” The Atlantic July/Aug. 2009: 70-76. Print. Maxwell Library Bridgewater State University
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