MLA Citation

Research and Evidence

 Standard Website
1. Find an Author.
2. Write the title of the information
3. Write the name of the Website
4. Publisher (if not the same as name of website)
5. Write the Date of creation
6. Write the html.
7. Date of Access
Example:
Example
 Gathering information
1.Find an Author.
J.M. Pressley (at the bottom of the site)
2. Write the title of the information.
“Shakespeare’s Biography.”
3. Write the name of the Website (i.e. Title of
Container)
Shakespeare Resource Center, (top of web
page)
4. Publisher
J.M. Pressley
5. Write the Date of creation or last update
7 August 2011,
6. Write the URL.
bardweb.net/man.html.
7. Accessed on
Accessed on 18 August 2016.
 Place your information like this
• Pressley, J.M. “Shakespeare’s Biography.” The
Shakespeare Resource Center , J.M.
Pressley, 7 August 2011,
bardweb.net/man.html. Accessed on 18
August 2016.
 2nd Website Example
“A Brief Biography of William Shakespeare.” The
College of Liberal Arts: Temple University,
temple.edu/ih/Shakespeare/Biography/ind
ex.htm. Accessed on 18 August 2016.

• Notice how there is NO author or Date of

publication.
• You do NOT write N/A for no author or ND for
no date.
 Print Book
• 1. Find the author.
• 2. Write the title of the book.
• 3. Find the publisher.
• 4. Find the year the book was published.
 Print Book Example
• Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. Penguin
Books, 1990.

HOWEVER, if you have a reprint of a book, the citation is slightly

different. Obviously, Faulkner did not publish the book at that
time, but instead it was in 1930.
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. 1930. Penguin
Books, 1990.
1990 is simply when Harcourt published its version of the novel.
 Online Book
1. Author
2. Title of Book
3. Publisher
4. Year of Publication
5. Database where book is located (i.e. Container 2)
6. URL
7. Accessed on

Scaruffi, Rapoza. The History of Jazz Music. Penguin Books, 2007.

Google Books,
books.google.com/books?id=z8YoHwAACAAJ&dq=Scaruffi,+Rapoza.+T
he+History+of+Jazz+Music.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6wMb31cvO
AhVN9mMKHXJJCqwQ6AEIJDAB. Accessed on 18 August 2016.
 PRINT Encyclopedia
1. Title of information
2. Name of Encyclopedia
3. Edition of Encyclopedia
4. Year of publication

“Ralph Waldo Emerson.” Cyclopedia of Authors.

3rd Edition, 1997.
 Online Encyclopedia
• “Jazz Dance." Encyclopedia Britannica,
2014, britannica.com/art/jazz-dance.
Accessed on 8 Sept. 2015.
• Cite an entry from an online encyclopedia just
like you would an entry from a print
encyclopedia, but add the following
information to the end of the citation:
– URL
– Date of access
 PRINT Magazine/Newspaper Article
1. Author
2. Title of Article
3. Title of Magazine or Newspaper
4. Volume
5. Number
6. Month and Year of Publication
7. Pages of article
 Magazine Citation Example
• Bronson, James. “Economically Efficient
Vehicles.” Car and Driver Magazine,
Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 17-25.
 Online Magazine or Newspaper
1. Author
2. Title of information
3. Name of Magazine
4. Publisher
5. Date of Publication
6. URL
7. Date of Access
Online Magazine Citation Example

• James, Austin. “Times and Women.” Woman’s

Day, 24 May 2013,
womansday.com/article12354. Accessed
on 17 October 2013.
 Online Academic Journal
1. Author.
2. Title of information.
3. Name of Academic Journal,
4. Volume,
5. Number,
6. Date of publication,
7. Page numbers.
8. Name of Database,
9. URL .
**Sometimes, Tennessee Electronic Library cites it for
you!
 Online Academic Journal Example
Curry, Jill L., and Irwin L. Morris. "Explaining
presidential greatness: the roles of peace
and prosperity?" Presidential Studies
Quarterly, Vol. 40, No.3, 2010, p.
515+. Academic OneFile,
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA2
33407189&v=2.1&u=tel_s_tsla&it=r&p=A
ONE&sw=w&asid=49714282e5a50af7d1e5
dadaf3cbfb61.