MLA Bibliography or How to Make a List of Sources

MLA Bibliography: How to Make the List of Sources

For a book by a single author:

Author. (Last name, first name) Title. (underlined). Place of Publication: Publisher, Date.

Example:

Hinton, Susan. Eloise. New York: Delacorte, 1979.

For a book by 2 or more authors:

Author (First person mentioned - Last name, first name), Second author mentioned. (FIRST name, followed by last name) Title. (underlined) Place: Publisher, Date.

Example:


Gibaldi, Joseph, and Walter S. Achtert. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
     3rd ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1988.

For an article in a reference book:

Author of the article. "Title of the Article." Title of the Book. (underlined) Editor. Vols. Place: Publisher, Date.

Example:



Siguan, M. "Psycholinguistics." Encyclopedia of Psychology.
     Ed. Raymond Corsini. 2nd ed. 4 vols. New York:Wiley, 1994.

For articles in magazines or newspapers:

Author of article. "Title of Article." Name of magazine (underlined) Date: Pages.

Example:

Prince, Dinah. "Marriage in the 80's." New York 2 June 1987: 30-38.

For articles in journals:

Author of article. "Title of Article." Name of journal (underlined) Vol.No (Date):Pages.

Example:

Barthelme, Frederick. "Architecture." Kansas Quarterly13.3(1981): 77-80.

For articles in the Online Databases, first cite the original article (see above), then the database.

Information needed to cite the database:

Name of Database
Name of Service

Name and Location of Library
Date You Accessed
URL of Database

For the correct names of databases, vendors, distributers, publishers and URL's, go to V.V's Online Databases Webpage, http://www.epcc.edu/vvlib/vvonline.htm

Example: database magazine article with no author

 "Facts and Figures." Hispanic June 1997: 17. Academic Search Premier. Ebsco. 
	 E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso. 2 Oct. 2002 <http://search.epnet.com/>.

.For articles in the Online Databases - Special Cases

Article published by a Database

"Cuban Migration to the U.S. in the 1960's and 1970's." 
	Discovering Collection. 2001. Gale Group. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso. 15 
	Oct. 1999. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>.

Essay from Literature Resource Center

Mangione, Jerre. "Federal Writers' Project Writers' Program." 
	The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writer's Project, 1935-1943. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. Excerpted 
	and reprinted in: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 46. N.p.: Gale, 
	1986. 147-152. Republished in: Literature Resource Center. Gale Group. 
	E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso. 2 July 2001. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>.

Chapter in a book from Opposing Viewpoints

Easterbook, Gregg. "The Media Glamorize Violence." American Values. 
	Ed. Jennifer A. Hurley. Opposing Viewpoints. N.p.: Greenhaven, 2000. N. pag. Reproduced in Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. 
	Gale Group. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso. 5 Sept. 2002 <http:// infotrac.galegroup.com/>.

For sources found on the World Wide Web:

Author of the article. "Title of the Web Page." Title of complete work (if part of a group of documents) Date created or last revised. Date you access the information. Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

Example:

Abilock, Debbie. "Research on a Complex Topic." Nueva Library Help 8 Aug. 1996. 23 Aug. 1997 <http://nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~debbie/library/research/advice.html>.

Note:When citing sources, there are many variations to take into account, so,

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