Examples of Direct Quotations

North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change …” (6).

readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change …” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).

Direct quotations of four or fewer typed lines (short quotation) are worked into the body of your paper and quotation marks are needed. In-Text Citation punctuation goes after the parentheses. “Text then” (Lerner 17).

Example: The article “The American Patriot” says, American’s heritage ceases to be what it once was. New

customs are replacing the old ways (2).

Article (no author) without signal phrase; article title and page number in parentheses:

Example: Many hard-core patriots think that America’s heritages ceases to be what it once was. New customs are replacing the old ways (“The American Patriot” 2).

Example: Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Example: The role of emotion in the creative process has been extensively explored (Wordsworth 263).

The simplest way to credit a resource and avoid plagiarism is to insert the information (usually the author’s last name – if no author the title of the article – and page number) in parentheses after the direct quotations or paraphrasing taken from that resource. Include only enough information to enable the reader to identify the resource in the Work Cited/Bibliography page.

B. Multiple authors:

C. More than three authors:

D. Two different works:

E. Citing from more than one location of the resource:

F. Citing from a resource without an author – use the title:

G. Citing from an article in a newspaper, journal, magazine etc. – name of the article and then page or section number:

H. Citing from a dictionary: type the dictionary word with quotation marks and give the page number:

I. If more than one work by the author is listed in the Works Cited/Bibliography, the citation should include the author’s name whenever possible, and use the resource’s title otherwise (or a shortened version of the title) along with page number:

o Author’s last name

o Comma

o Author’s first name

o Title of book (in italics)

o Period

o City book was published in

o Colon

o Publisher’s name

o Date published

o Period

o Medium of publication – Print – all ‘hard copy’ books are listed as “print”

o Period

Sample: Jones, Alexander. The Wonders of Ireland. Dublin: Green Isle Press, 1996. Print.

Book by two authors

o Last name of first author

o Comma

o First name of first author

o and (type the word and)

o Second author’s first name

o Second author’s last name

o Period

o Title of book (in italics)

o Period

o City book was published in

o Colon

o Publisher’s name

o Date published

o Period

o Medium of publication – Print – all ‘hard copy’ books are listed as “print”

o Editor’s last name

o Comma

o Editor’s first name

o ed – actually type: ed

o Period

o Title of book (in italics)

o Period

o City published in

o Colon

o Publisher

o Year published

o Period

o Medium of publication – print – all ‘hard copy’ books are listed as “print”

o Period

Sample: Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,

1997. Print.

o Word looked up (in quotation marks)

o Period (inside of end quotes)

o Title of dictionary (in italics)

o Period

o Number of the Edition (if available

o Period

o Publication date

o Period

o Medium of publication – print – all ‘hard copy’ books are listed as “print”

o Author’s last name (if no author use title – goes in quotation marks)

o Comma

o Author’s first name

o Title of the article in quotation marks

o Period (inside of the ending quotation marks)

o Title of the magazine (in italics)

o Date of magazine

o Colon

o Period

o Author’s last name (if no author use title – goes in quotation marks)

o Comma

o Author’s first name

o Title of the article in quotation marks

o Period (inside of the ending quotation marks)

o Name of newspaper (in italics)

o Date of newspaper

o Colon

o Period

o Last name of the person who was interviewed

o Comma

o First name of the person who was interviewed

o Personal interview (actually type Personal interview)

o Period

o Date of the interview

o Period

Sample: Purdue, Pete. Personal interview. 1 Dec. 2000.

Web Sites

Here are some common features you should try and find before citing electronic resources in MLA style. Not every Web page will provide all of the following information. However, collect as much of the following information as possible both for your citations and for your research notes:

• Author and/or editor names (if available)

• Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)

• Title of the Website, project, or book in italics. (Remember that some Print publication have Web publication with slightly different names. They may, for example, include the additional information or otherwise modified information, like domain names [e.g. .com or .net].)

• Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numbers.

• Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date.

• Take note of any page numbers (get these from when you print the resources out)

• Medium of publication.

• Date you accessed the material.

• URL

o Author’s last name (if no author use title – goes in quotation marks)

o Comma

o Author’s first name

o Name of the site (in italics)

o Period

o Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher)

o Comma

o Date site was updated or published

o Medium of publication for electronic resources, list the medium as Web

o Period

o Date you printed out the information

o Period

o <

o >

23 Apr. 2008. < http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/>.

o Title of the article (use quotation marks) (if you have an author use that)

o Period (inside of the ending quotation marks)

o Title of the website (in italics)

o Period

o Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher)

o Comma

o n.d. (no publishing date is given)

o Medium of publication for electronic resources, list the medium as Web

o Period

o Date you printed out the information

o Period

o <

o >

o Author’s last name (if no author use title – goes in quotation marks)

o Comma

o Author’s first name

o Title of the article (in quotation marks)

o Period (inside of the ending quotation marks)

o Title of the Web magazine (in italics)

o Period

o Publisher name

o Period

o Publication date

o Period

o Medium of publication for electronic resources, list the medium as Web

o Period

o Date you printed out the information

o Period

o <

o >

Apart Mag., 16 Aug. 2002. Web. 4 May 2009. < http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving/>.