How do I cite my work using MLA?

How do I cite my work using MLA?


Examples of MLA Citations
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This presentation includes: 
  1. What MLA citation is and why it's important
  2. In-text Citations and Signal Phrases 
  3. Works Cited Page 
  4. Examples

Anthology 

  • Format: 

Last name, First name. “Title of Essay.” Title of Collection, edited by Editor’s 

Name(s), Publisher, Year, page range of entry. 

  • Example: 

Hughes, Langston. “Aunt Sue’s Stories.” The Collected Poems of Langston 

Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad, Knopf, 2004, p. 23.


Online Anthology 

  • Format: 

Last, First Name, ed. Title of Anthology. Publisher, Year, URL. 

  • Example:

Begbie, Harold, ed. The Bed Book of Happiness. Gutenberg, 2004, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13457. 


Books

  • Format: 

Last name, First name.  “Title of Source” Title of Container, Publisher, Publication Date, 

Page numbers. 

  • Example: 

Barzun, Jacques. “Behind the Blue Pencil: Censorship or Creeping Creativity?” On 

Writing, Editing , and Publishing, U of Chicago P, 1986, pp. 120 - 126.


Websites: 

  • Format: 

Last name, First name. “Title of Article: Subtitle of Article.” Website, Day Month Year, 

URL. 

  • Examples: 

Marble, Dee. “Jealousy in Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Online. 15 August 2020, 

shakespeare-online.com/quotes/shakespeareonjealousy.html. 



All information is originally from Bibliography.com. 


Additional Resource:
  1. University Libraries


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