Citation and Plagiarism

MLA Style 8^th 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.

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 or url. 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).

Quick Guides from MLA website:

• Citations by Format
• Works Cited Quick Guide

More Citation Resources:

Check with your instructor if it is acceptable to use AI tools as an information source or as a writing assistant.

If you use an AI tool, such as, ChatGPT, you must cite it as any other source.

Suggested Format: "Title of conversation." Name of AI Source, date, url.

Example: "Slice or scoop cookies." ChatGPT, 13 July 2023, https://chat.openai.com/share/0197f0c0-aef2-49c1-8cb9-586cd8e5e543.

MLA Stye Handbook Format:

How to get the URL link to a ChatGPT conversation: 
ChatGPT Shared Links FAQ

• Click on the up-arrow next to the title of the conversation

• Click on Copy Link

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