1. MLA Format
Citing someone who is cited or
quoted in the source you are using:
2. Here is the “Works Cited” listing
for the article “San Francisco
Legislator Pushes Feng Shui
Building Codes,” in your textbook
Quest 3 Reading and Writing:
3. Gaeddert. “San Francisco Legislator
Pushes Feng Shui Building
Codes.” Quest 3 Reading and
Writing. Pamela Hartmann and
Laurie Blass. New York:
McGraw/Hill, 2007. 5-6. Print.
4. See the paragraph at the top of
page 5, which refers to a proposal
to include feng shui principles in
California building codes:
5. Spokespeople for the California Building
Standards Commission (CBSC) and the
California Building Industry Association
have criticized the resolution. “My …
feeling … is that in these times with the
budget cuts … we’re looking at the highest
priority issues,” said Stan Nishumura
executive director of the CBC. “I don’t
think this is our highest priority.”
6. In my own paper, I want to mention Yee’s
feng shui proposal, and quote Nishimura’s
argument against it.
I can write:
7. One lawmaker has proposed the use of
feng shui principles in building codes in
California, but this idea was rejected by a
spokesman for the California Building
Standards Association who said, “I don’t
think this is our highest priority”
(Nishimura, qtd. in Gaeddert 6).
8. You can also mention Nishimura when you
introduce the quotation; that way, you
don’t have to include his name in
parentheses at the end:
9. One lawmaker has proposed the use of
feng shui principles in building codes in
California, but this idea was rejected Stan
Nishimura a spokesman for the California
Building Standards Association, who
said, “I don’t think this is our highest
priority” (qtd. in Gaeddert 6).
10. Be sure to include the page number.
In MLA format, the important things to
include in the in-text citation are the last
name and the page number.
The last name is the name that begins
your entry on your “Works Cited” list.
11. Gaeddert is the name that begins the
listing on the “Works Cited” page:
12. Gaeddert. “San Francisco Legislator
Pushes Feng Shui Building
Codes.” Quest 3 Reading and
Writing. Pamela Hartmann and
Laurie Blass. New York:
McGraw/Hill, 2007. 5-6. Print.
13. Here is the “Works Cited” listing
for the article “Modern Stone Age
Humans,” in your textbook
Quest 3 Reading and Writing:
14. Here is the “Works Cited” listing
for the article “Modern Stone Age
Humans,” in your textbook
Quest 3 Reading and Writing:
15. Here is the “Works Cited” listing
for the article “Modern Stone Age
Humans,” in your textbook
Quest 3 Reading and Writing:
16. Kottak, C. P. “Modern Stone Age
Humans.” Quest 3 Reading
and Writing. Pamela Hartmann
and Laurie Blass. New York:
McGraw/Hill, 2007. 64-68. Print.
18. Wherever gathering contributes
more to the diet than
hunting, women’s economic labor
is highly valued and social status
based on gender is rudimentary
(Draper, 1975).
19. Note that the citation form in your
texbook is APA and not MLA. This
is why you see a date and not a
page number in parentheses:
20. Where ever gathering contributes
more to the diet than
hunting, women’s economic labor
is highly valued and social status
based on gender is rudimentary
(Draper, 1975).
21. This is not a direct quote; it is
Kottak’s paraphrase of Draper’s
idea.
If I want to use the idea in my own
paper, I do this, using my own
paraphrase of the idea:
22. Men and women tend to be more
equal in societies where gathering
and not hunting is the main
source of food (Draper, cited in
Kottak 68).
23. Kottak is the name that begins the listing
on the “Works Cited” page:
24. Kottak, C. P. “Modern Stone Age
Humans.” Quest 3 Reading
and Writing. Pamela Hartmann
and Laurie Blass. New York:
McGraw/Hill, 2007. 64-68. Print.
