This PowerPoint presentation was created by Nora Rackley and James Cason at Lake-Sumter Community College to teach college students how to correctly cite sources using the 7th edition of MLA style. If you wish to embed this presentation in your site, please contact Nora Rackley at rackleyn@lscc.edu.
3. Dow, Mark. American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration
Prisons. Berkeley: U of California P, 2004.
NetLibrary. Web. 18 Sep. 2008.
4. Volkow, Nora. “It’s Time for Addiction Science to Supersede
Stigma.” Science News 8 Nov. 2008: 40. Academic Search
Complete. Web. 12 Dec. 2008
5. Talbert, JeanAnne J. “Substance Abuse Among Nurses.” Clinical Journal
of Oncology Nursing 13.1 (2009): 17-19. Academic Search Complete.
Web. 1 Mar. 2009.
6. All citations are not created equal
Capitalization
Underline Old Style
Correct Capitalization
Klitzing, Sandra Wolf. “Women Living in a Homeless Shelter:
Stress, Coping and Leisure.” Journal of Leisure Research 36.4
(2004):483-513. General OneFile. Web. 22 Sep. 2008.
Italics
New Style
Verify database citations using your handbook, the
library’s MLA handout, or with your instructor!
7. Tsang, Gloria. “Light Drinking Benefits Heart in Men.” Health
Castle.com. July 2006. Web. 12 Apr. 2009.
8. The new MLA Handbook states that if you
can easily find a website you don’t need to
include the URL
Title and Author Search
Correct Website
9. If after a simple search you can’t find the
website. You should include the URL.
Place it at the end of your normal citation
after the date of access.
Tsang, Gloria. “Light Drinking Benefits Heart in Men.”
Health Castle.com. July 2006. Web. 12 Apr. 2009.
<http://www.healthcastle.com/alcohol_heart.shtml>.
10. Starts on a blank page at the end of your paper
(has the same header)
Use Times New Roman size 10 font throughout
the paper
Double space and alphabetize citations
Use hanging indents for citations
DO NOT use bullets or numbers
DO NOT list URLs (new style no longer
requires them anyway)
Check all citations provided by websites or
databases, they are usually wrong
11.
12. Bullets
Missing information for citation
Fonts
URLs should be in brackets
URLs no longer required
13.
14. Works Cited starts on a
new page
Missing information for
citations
More than one font
URLs should be in
brackets
URLs no longer required
Did not check citation
from database
Numbered citations
Not alphabetized
No hanging indent
15. Single Spacing
Spacing between
citations
Capitalization of
titles
Alphabetization
Format of dates
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18. Are you still stuck?
If you need more citation examples go to
http://www.lscc.edu/library/citation.htm.
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Editor's Notes
Formatting is the easiest partFollow the guidelines from instructor, in handbook, and in handouts