Referencing MLA style

1. Referencing
MLA Citation Style

2. Avoid plagiarism!

3. When to cite?
• quote material
• paraphrase
• statistics
• not common knowledge

4. What to cite?
• newspaper articles
• books
• journals
• encyclopedias
• websites

5. In Text Citations and Works
Cited List

6. In Text Citations
In the body of the essay include include the
author’s name and the page number where the
information was found.

7. Works Cited List
• Author’s name
• Title
• Date of publication
• Publisher information
• Medium type
For websites there is no need to
include the URL information unless the
reader cannot locate the source
without it.

8. Works Cited List-Sample

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