How to cite your sources

The following bibliographic entries are based on the MLA Style of citation standards.  For more information, go to the MLA web site.

Citing Sources From Print Materials

(Please note:  The second line of a citation should be indented five spaces.  However, the indentions on this web page are not visible.) 

Book – No Named Author

Handbook of Pre-Columbian Art.  New York:  Johnson, 1988.  

  Book – One Author

Gershman, Herbert S. The Surrealist Revolution in France. Ann Arbor: 
    
University of
Michigan Press, 1986.  

 

  Book – Multiple Authors

Raffer, Bernard C., Richard Friedman, and Robert A. Baron.  New York in
     Crisis.  New York:  Harper, 1986.  

 

Book -- Edited

Melville, Herman.  Moby Dick.  Edited by J.P. Small.  Boston:  Houghton, 1973.

 

Book -- Translation  

Maurois, Andre.  Lelia.  Translated by Gerard Hopkins.  New York:  Harper,
     1954.  

 

Book -- Corporate Author  

American Association of School Administrators.  Annual Report. 
     
Washington:  American Association of School Administrators, 1984.  

 

Poems, Essays, Short Stories, and Plays in Anthologies

Poe, Edgar Allan.  "The Raven," Great American Poetry, edited by Richard
      Johnson.  New York: McGraw Hill, 1978.  

 

 Article -- Newspaper or Weekly Periodical

May, Clifford.  "Religious Frictions Heat Up in Nigeria."  New York Times, 12
      August 1984, Late ed. Sec. 2 p. 2.  

 

 Article -- Reference Book (like an encyclopedia)

Encyclopedia Britannica.  1986 ed. S.v. "Color and Light," by Richard Smith.  

Citing Sources from the World Wide Web

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World Wide Web -- Professional/Corporate Sites

Portuguese Language Page. University of Chicago. 1 May 1997
     <http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/port/>.  

World Wide Web -- Personal/Individual Sites

Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 May 1997
     <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>.  

Article from an online database (like SIRS, NewsBank, ProQuest Direct or Encyclopedia Britannica)

"Fresco." Encyclopaedia Britannica. 29 Mar. 1997  <http://www.eb.com:180>.  

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