MLA

-- Sample Paper Formatted in MLA Style

[|Using Microsoft Word] [|Using GoogleDocs]

**MLA Links:**
[|Mrs. Eppelsheimer's "How to Cite Your Sources"] [|Middle School Bibliography Guide] [|Son of a Citation Machine] [|OWL's MLA Formatting and Style Guide]

Citing Sources in MLA style in your writing:
CLICK HERE FOR EXAMPLES OF CITING YOUR SOURCES IN YOUR WRITING

Citing Videos and other Electronic Media in MLA style:
Check out the examples on this MLA Style Guide for Electronic Sources "Segment Title." Director/Creator (if available). //Title of database or Website//. Year of publication. Format. Date of access.

"The L-Team." Williams College Libraries. //YouTube.// 2007. Web. 27 Aug. 2009.

Citing Images in MLA style:
Very important! If you are citing an image found in Google Images or any other image retrieval service, be certain to cite the image in its original context. Do not provide the URL of the enlarged image - you must use the URL of the page where the image was originally shown.
 * Image creator's last name, first name, if available, or page author's name if available, followed by a period and a space
 * Title of photo followed by a period, in quotation marks. If no title, describe briefly within quotation marks.
 * Descriptive word (photo, map, cartoon, drawing, etc,) followed by a period and a space
 * Website title in italics, followed by a space
 * Website publication date in DD Mo. YYYY format followed by a period and a space
 * Date image was viewed in DD Mo. YYYY format followed by a space
 * Web address in angle brackets, followed by a period

Suzuki, Lea. "Mick Jaggar." Photo. //SFGate.com// 14 Nov. 2005. 14 Nov. 2005 .

**Citing unpublished documents, such as handouts from class:**
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Document." Description of document (e.g. flyer, leaflet, memo or handout). Organization associated with document. City of production/distribution. Date of document. (If no date listed, enter: n.d.) Medium.

Note: If any of the above information is not given, leave the information out.

Taft, Chuck. "Division and Reunion: The Edge of the Precipe -- The Road to Disunion." Handout. 8th grade American History. University School of Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI. n.d. Print.

Note: If the handout is just a paper copy of information from a website, you can cite the original source website. See Mrs. Barth if you have any questions!

An Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or Afterword
When citing an introduction, a preface, a forward, or an afterword, write the name of the author(s) of the piece you are citing. Then give the name of the part being cited, which should not be italicized or enclosed in quotation marks. //If the writer of the piece is different from the author of the complete work//, then write the full name of the principal work's author after the word "By." For example, if you were to cite Hugh Dalziel Duncan’s introduction of Kenneth Burke’s book Permanence and Change, you would write the entry as follows:

Duncan, Hugh Dalziel. Introduction. //Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose//. By Kenneth Burke. 1935. 3rd ed. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984. xiii-xliv. Print.


 * Mowat, Barbara A. and Paul Werstine. Introduction. //A Midsummer Night's Dream//. By William Shakespeare. 1600. New York: Washington Square P, 1993. xiii-lii. Print.**