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Frequently Asked Questions
Citing
Sources in a List of Works Cited -
MLA Style
The MLA Citation
Style guidelines are found in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, currently in its 5th edition (1999). A
copy is kept for your convenience at the McFarlin Library Reference Desk.
It may not be checked out, but should be used in the library.
Below is a brief guide to the most frequently used entries. Please
consult the Handbook if you need additional help.
| Key to color codes: |
| Author(s) |
Book Title |
Editor(s) |
Edition |
Pages |
Publisher |
Published
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| Article Title |
Journal Title |
Volume Number |
Issue Number |
Place of Publication |
Retrieval Information |
Other Information |
See important notes at the bottom of the page.
| DeSantis,
Vincent. The Shaping of Modern America,
1877-1920.
3rd ed.
Wheeling, IL: Davidson,
2000. |
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Burns, James MacGregor, and Susan Dunn. The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America.
New York: Atlantic
Monthly P, 2001. |
| Jefferson,
Thomas, and Maria Cosway. Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters
Between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway.
Ed. John P. Kaminski. Madison, WI:
Madison House, 1999. |
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Thompson, Kenneth W., ed. The Eisenhower
Presidency: Eleven Intimate Perspectives of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Lanham, MD: UP of America,
1984. |
| Landy, Marc.
"Politics and Friendship: Martin Van Buren and Andrew
Jackson". Friends and Citizens: Essays in
Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams. Ed. Peter
Dennis Bathory and Nancy L. Schwartz. Lanham,
MD: Rowan, 2001.
80-96. |
| Heinze, Andrew
R. "The Morality of Reservation: Western Lands
in the Cleveland Period, 1885-1897." Journal
of the West 31.3
(1992): 81-89. |
| Scherr, Andrew.
"Governor James Monroe and the Southampton Slave
Resistance of 1799." Historian
61 (1999):
557-578. |
| Weems, Robert
E., and Lewis A. Randolph. "The Ideological
Origins of Richard M. Nixon's 'Black Capitalism' Initiative."
Review of Black Political Economy
29.1
(2001): 49-61. |
| King, James D.,
and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr. "Presidential
Leadership of Congressional Civil Rights Voting: The Cases of Eisenhower and
Johnson." Policy Studies Journal
21 (1993):
544-555. |
| Highton,
Benjamin. "Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the
1998 House Elections." Public Opinion
Quarterly 66.1
(2002): 18 pp.
29 May 2003 <http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/POQ/issues/v66n1/660101.html> |
| Redmond, Edward
J. "The Mapmaker of Mount Vernon."
The Early America Review
3.3
(2001). 30 May 2003
<http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2001_winter_spring/index.html> |
| Siracusa,
Joseph M., and David G. Coleman. "Scaling the
Nuclear Ladder: Deterrence from Truman to Clinton."
Australian Journal of International Affairs
54.3
(2000): 20 pp.
Academic Search Elite. EBSCOhost. McFarlin
Library, The University of Tulsa. 30 May 2003
<http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=3894872&db=afh> |
NOTES:
Authors:
- Reverse the author's name (i.e., last name, comma, first name). Otherwise,
give the name as it appears in the source. Do not abbreviate a name
unless that is how it appears on the source.
- Cite all authors if there are three or less. Reverse only the name
of the first author listed. Give the names of subsequent authors in normal
order. If there are four or more authors
then you may either list only the first followed by "et al.", or else
give all the names in full. Give the names of authors in the order in which
they appear in the source.
Publication Date:
- Abbreviate months, except for May, June and July.
- If no date is available, write n.d. in place of the year.
Titles:
- Capitalize the first words, the last words and all principal words of all
book, article and journal titles.
- Separate a title from a subtitle with a colon and a space.
- The titles of books and journals should always be
underlined. Chapter and article titles should be enclosed in "quotation
marks".
Place of Publication:
- Abbreviate the names of U.S. states and territories using the official
two-letter U.S. Postal Service codes.
Retrieval Information:
- For documents retrieved from the Web, provide the URL (Internet address)
at the end of the retrieval statement enclosed in angled brackets.
- If the item derives from a database (such as those on services such as EBSCOhost, InfoTrac,
or FirstSearch) give the name of the database, the name of the service, the
library name, the date you accessed the article, and the URL of the article
(if available) or of the service (if an article URL is not available).
- Underline the title of the database but not the name of the service that
provides the database.
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