From the Purdue OWL MLA Works Cited Other Common Sources:
List films by their title. Include the name of the director, the film studio or distributor, and the release year. If relevant, list performer names after the director's name.
Speed Racer. Directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, performances by Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Elia, Susan Sarandon, Ariel Winter, and John Goodman, Warner Brothers, 2008.
To emphasize specific performers or directors, begin the citation with the name of the desired performer or director, followed by the appropriate title for that person.
Lucas, George, director. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Twentieth Century Fox, 1977.
The MLA (Modern Language Association) style is generally used in the humanities - language, literature, history, philosophy. As it is more concise and easier to use than some other style guides, it can be modified to fit nearly any field of study.
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MLA Easy Formatting Style Writing and Grammar GuideOmnivore, Google Scholar, and library databases will provide citations for sources.
Search to find books and articles. Click CITE. Select a Citation Style. Copy & paste or export. Proofread using the instructions on this guide.
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MLA Handbook 8th edition by MLA Style 8th edition: Citation Quick Guide
Works Cited Page
Put your list of works cited on a separate page at the end of your paper.
The title Works Cited should be centered at the top; do NOT italicize, put in BOLD or use quotation marks.
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A Book by one or two Authors
Basic format:
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
Example:
Sackett, Lou, and David Haynes. American Regional Cuisines: Food Culture and Cooking. Pearson, 2012.
An Article in a Scholarly Journal from an Online Database
Basic format:
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Issue Number, Year, pages. Name of Database, doi. Accessed date.
Example:
Driver, Elizabeth. "Cookbooks as Primary Sources for Writing History: a Bibliographer's View." Food, Culture & Society, vol. 12, no. 3, 2009, pp. 257-274. General OneFile, doi:10.2752/175174409X431987. Accessed 3 May 2016.
In-Text Citations
Parenthetical Citation: Put a reference to the work cited in parentheses after a quote or paraphrase. The in-text citation appears at the end of the sentence and before the period.
Author-page style: put the author's last name and the page number(s) in the text and a complete reference on your Works Cited page. The author's name may be in the sentence or in parentheses; the page number(s) must be in the parentheses.
Basic Format: “Quote” or paraphrase (Author’s last name page #).
Example: “Cookbooks are tangible, printed records that illuminate many aspects of the past; however, to interpret accurately what they tell us about their time, I believe that it is important to keep the books themselves at the center of the story“ (Driver 258).
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