Answered By: Sherre Harrington Last Updated: Feb 09, 2021 Views: 33
Modern Language Association (MLA) Style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. These resources offer examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
Quick Examples: Works Cited List
Books:
Peters, Clinton Crockett. Pandora's Garden: Kudzu, Cockroaches, and Other Misfits of Ecology. University of Georgia, 2018.
Periodicals (journal, magazine, newspaper):
Bucher, Christina. “Perversely Reading Kate Chopin’s ‘Fedora.’” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures, vol. 51, no. 2, Summer 2003, pp. 373-388.
Quick Examples: In-text Citations
MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation - the author's last name and the page number from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase. The page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:
Davidson calls Meek's poems "weighted with love of world and word" (113).
What she delivers is a balance in language that is all but incandescent. Biogeography is an extraordinary achievement (Davidson 112).
Here's how the companion Works Cited entry for the source above would be formatted:
Davidson, Phebe. "Keepers: A Review of Adcock, Meek, Kennedy and Blakely." Asheville Poetry Review, vol.16, no.1, 2009, pp.110-113.
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