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Examples of Works Cited (MLA Style)
Books
Books by a single author
Jones, Ray. Talking about Statistics. New York: Harper Collins,
1983.
- - -. America's Funniest Statistics. New York: Harper
Collins, 1993.
Book with two or more authors or editors
Dal, Michael, and Louise Lui. Galileo. New York: Harper Collins,
1999.
Book under the direction of an editor
Brown, Mary, ed. The History of Canada. Toronto: Key Porter
Books, 2000.
Other Printed Works
Play
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine.
New York: Washington Square-Pocket, 1992.
Article, essay, poem, etc., in an anthology
Brown, A. Y. "The Loon in Canadian Literature." Symbols
in Fiction.
Ed. A. D. Singh. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. 27-41.
Article or entry in a reference book
"Sparta." Encyclopaedia Britannica. 15th ed., 1987.
Review in a scholarly journal
McNeal, Robert H. Rev. of The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 19291940,
by Isaac Deutcher. Canadian Historical Review 46 (Mar. 1965):
79-81.
Article in a magazine or newspaper (translated, in this example)
Raymond, Jean-Gilles. "Victims of Crime Have Rights Too."
Trans. Marie Ng. Guardian Weekly 24 Jan. 1999: 13.
Anonymous article
"Importing Full Employment." Financial Post 17
July 1965: 6-7.
Letter to the editor or editorial
Chan, Jie. Letter. "Best Bets." National Post 4
Dec. 1998: A28.
"Court Case Avoided." Editorial. Burnaby Now 30 May
1999: 6.
Online Sources
Web-accessible electronic journal article
DeKoven, Marianne. "Conrad's Unrest." Journal of Modern
Literature 1.2 (Winter 1997-98): 33 pars. Online. Available: http://iupjournals.org/jml/mod21-2.html.
2 June 1999.
World Wide Web page
Crane, Gregory, ed. The Perseus Project. 21 May 1999. Online.
Tufts University, Medford MA. Available: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/.
3 June 1999.1
Part of a document
Kipling, Rudyard. "The White Seal." The Jungle Book.
Online. Project Gutenberg. Available: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/jngl-table.html.
2 June 1999.
Visit the Modern Language Association of America Website at http://www.mla.org/www_mla_org/style/style_index.asp?mode=section/
for more information on using MLA style for citations of online sources.
Other Media
Interview that you conducted
Tanaka, Stacey. Personal interview. 28 Nov. 1999.
Sound recording
Dylan, Bob. Nashville Skyline. Columbia, 1969.
Television or radio program
"Death by Moonlight." The Valour and the Horror.
Dir. Brian McKenna. Writs. Brian McKenna, Terrence McKenna, and Roman
Jarymowicz. CBC, 1992.
Film or video
Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese Women in Canada. Dir.
Dora Nipp. National Film Board, 1997.
CD-ROM
Zebu. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. CD-ROM. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 1992.
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1 Notice the two dates. The Web page was updated on May 21,
1999, and the writer used the page as a source on June 3, 1999.
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