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MLA (Modern Language Association) Format
Sample Bibliographic Entries

  • Book, 1 author
  • Book, 2 authors
  • Essay or article from collection by different authors (anthology)
  • Introduction
  • Article from journal
  • Article from magazine
  • Videorecording of film
  • Web pages
  • Article from EBSCOhost

See entries displayed as a Works Cited page.

Formatting considerations:

Title of page: Works Cited
For an example of a Works Cited page containing books by single authors, see our Overview of MLA Format.
This title appears at the top of the bibliography page without underlining or quotation marks.

Spacing: Double-spaced throughout
This means between the lines of each entry and between entries.

Order of entries: Alphabetical order according to author's last name
If there is no author, use the first word in the title to alphabetize.

Indentation: Hanging indent
Each bibliographic listing begins at the margin of the page. Second (and third, fourth, etc.) line should be indented as far as for a paragraph.

Quotation marks, italicizing, underlining:
Italicize or underline the title of a book, journal, magazine, newspaper, play, movie.
Enclose in quotation marks the title of an article, story, or poem.

Book:

Hale, Jonathan. The Old Way of Seeing: How Architecture Lost Its Magic (and How to Get It Back). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Holmevik, Jan Rune, and Cynthia Haynes.  MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments.  Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

Work in an Anthology:

Eliot, T. S. "Tradition and the Individual Talent." The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Ed. David Damrosch and Christopher Baswell.  New York: Longman, 1999. 2447-52.

Introduction:

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin.  Introduction.  The Frontiers of Love.  By Diana Chang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.  v-xxiii.

Article from Scholarly Journal:

Wu, Su-Yueh, and Donald L. Rubin. "Evaluating the Impact of Collectivism and Individualism on Argumentative Writing by Chinese and North      American College Students." Research in the Teaching of English 35 (2000): 148-178.

Article from Magazine:

Lemann, Nicholas. "The Iraq Factor." The New Yorker 22 Jan. 2001: 34-38.

Video:

Schindler's List. Dir. Steven Spielberg.  Perf. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, and Caroline Goodall.  1993.  Videocassette. MCA Universal Home Video, 1994.

Webpages:

Davis, Rebecca Harding.  "Life in the Iron Mills."  1861.  2 Sept. 2003.  <http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/english/lasseter/editiron.htm>

Foreman, Joel.  "Next-Generation Educational Technology versus the Lecture."  Educause Review 38.4 (2003): 13-22.  2 Sept. 2003.       <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0340.pdf>.

McCain, John.  "Why We Must Win." Washington Post 31 August 2003.  2 Sept. 2003   <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2466-2003Aug29.html>.

Wilson, Fred L. Science and Human Values: Pre-Socratic Philosophers.  11 May 1999. Physics Teacher.org. 26 Sept. 2001.  <http://www.rit.edu/~flwstv/presocratic.html>.

Article from EBSCOhost:

Smith, Sam. "The Revision Thing."  Harper’s Magazine Oct. 2003: 62-63.  Academic Search Elite.  EBSCOhost.  Alexander Mack Memorial Lib., Bridgewater Coll., Bridgewater, VA.  9 Oct. 2003 <http://search.epnet.com>.  

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