MLA Online Source Documentation

MLA Format

Bibliography Styles Handbook

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• Listing Authors
  • Single Author
  • Multiple Authors
  • Corporate Authorship
  • Edited Collections
  • Translated Works
  • Second Work by Same Author(s)
  • No Author Identified
• Listing Books
  • Typical Entries for a Book in a Bibliography
  • Reprinted or Republished Books
  • Specific Editions of a Book
  • Multivolume Works
  • One Book in a Series
  • Parts of Books
    • Book Chapters
    • Items in an Anthology
    • Encyclopedia Articles
    • Prefaces, Introductions, Forewords, and Afterwords
    • Citing Footnotes or Endnotes
      
• Listing Other Sources
  • Interviews
  • Letters
  • Unpublished Dissertations
  • Films and Videotapes
  • Television and Radio Programs
  • Recordings
  • Artistic Works
  • Performances
  • Computer Software
    
• Listing Periodicals
  • Typical Entries for Periodicals
  • Listing Articles in Journals with Continuous Pagination
  • Listing Articles in Journals with Non-continuous Pagination
  • Listing Articles in a Weekly Periodical
  • Journals That Number Pages Continually Each Issue
  • Journals That Page Each Individual Issue Separately
  • Journals That Use Only Issue Numbers
  • Journals With More Than One Series
  • Articles In Newspapers
  • Articles In A Magazine
  • Anonymous Articles
  • Editorials
  • Letters To An Editor
  • Reviews Serialized Articles
  • Abstracts
  • Articles In A Microform Collection
  • Articles In Loose-Leaf Collections
• Listing Publication Information
  • Books
  • Journals and Periodicals
• Citing Electronic Materials with MLA Guidelines
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    Overview

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    Citation template

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    Examples

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      A. Work or part of work with printed source

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      B. Work or part of work without printed source

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      C. Journal/Newsletter/Newspaper with printed source

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      D. Journal/Newsletter/Newspaper/Conference (e.g., listserv) without printed source

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      E. Dictionary/Encyclopedia/Database/Abstract collection with printed source

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      F. Dictionary/Encyclopedia/Database/Abstract collection without printed source

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      G. Work in more than one medium

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    Exceptions to the template

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      A. Newsgroups

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      B. E-mail

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    When the rules do not apply

    Other MLA Examples . . .

• More MLA documentations (Class room handout)
• Even More MLA documaentations (another hand out for the class)

Form  MLA Handbook.

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