Wednesday, October 12, 2011

When You Get to Class: MLA Style Citations (Book with One Author)

Example:
Fiedler, Leslie. Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self. New York: Simon, 1978. Print.

Author (last, first.)
Title (in italics, include subtitles after colons, period at the end)
City of Publication (followed by colon)
Publisher (followed by comma, abbreviated)
Date of Publication (followed by period)
Medium of Publication (“Print.” for book, “Web.” for online book (slightly different format),  CD, Film, DVD, Peformance, etc.)

Any line after the first line is double-spaced and indented on-half inch or five spaces. This is called a “hanging indent.”

Now we will look at two different books and put them into MLA format. First we will gather the information and then put them into the correct format.  

Example #1:
Author:
Title:
City of Publication:
Publisher:
Date of Publication:
Medium of Publication:

Example #2:
Author:
Title:
City of Publication:
Publisher:
Date of Publication:
Medium of Publication:

If you had a “Works Cited” page with all three of these sources, how would you put them in order?


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