2. What gets cited?
The left-most item in the Works Cited citation. Keep
the formatting the same.
Hanes, Stephanie. "Facebook May Amplify Eating
Disorders and Poor Body Image." Christian Science
Monitor. 30 Mar 2012: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher.
Web. 03 Apr 2012.
Pilieci, Vito. "Do Social Networks Make Us Sick?."
Ottawa Citizen. 24 Mar 2012: B.1. SIRS Issues
Researcher. Web. 25 Apr 2012.
Zay, Sarah. "What Sticks & Stones Can't Do,
Facebook Will--And More!." USA Today
(Farmingdale). Mar 2011: 56-57. SIRS Issues
Researcher. Web. 25 Apr 2012.
3. Where does the period go?
In general, the period is placed after the
parentheses. Notice the spacing too.
For example, the Senior Thesis might be the
greatest assignment ever created (Brinker 2).
However, after block quotes, the period goes before
the parentheses.
4. The Foundation: Citing a Book
For a book with one author:
The National Traumatic Stress Network proposes
creating a new Institute of Child Abuse and
Interpersonal Violence within the National Institute of
Health (NIH) to focus and coordinate research on the
causes, consequences, treatment and prevention of
child abuse (Almond 73).
For two or three authors:
(Johnson and Smith 13) or (Brown, Smith, and
Williams 341).
For sources with more than three authors:
(Cordero et al. 45).
5. What if there’s no author?
The last form of abuse is called exploitation.
This means forcing a child to do something
illegal (“Child Maltreatment”).
It’s okay to abbreviate long titles.
“Child Maltreatment – Psychological Abuse.”
Gale Group. 2010. Health and Wellness. Gale
Group. 12 April 2010.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com>.
6. How do I cite speaker & author?
Morgan’s mother, Patti Pena, reports that the
driver “ran a stop sign at 45 mph, broadsided
my vehicle and killed Morgan as she sat in her
car seat.” A week later, corrections officer
Shannon Smith, who was guarding prisoners
by the side of the road, was killed by a woman
distracted by a phone call (Besthoff).
7. Block Quotes
By comparing the time of a collision with the
phone records, the researchers assessed the
dangers of driving while phoning. The results
are unsettling:
We found that using a cellular telephone
was associated with a risk of having a
motor vehicle collision that was about four
times as high as that among the same
drivers when they were not using their
cellular telephones. This relative risk is
similar to the hazard associated with driving
with a blood alcohol level at the legal
limit. (456)
8. Author’s name and title in the
preceding sentence
Using police records, John M. Violanti of the
Rochester Institute of Technology
investigated the relation between traffic
fatalities in Oklahoma and the use or presence
of a cell phone. He found a nine fold increase
in the risk of fatality if a phone was being used
and a doubled risk simply when a phone was
present in a vehicle (522-23).
9. Author & Source credited in-text
In 1997, an important study appeared in the
New England Journal of Medicine. The
authors, Donald Redelmeier and Robert
Tibshirani, studied 699 volunteers who made
their cell phone bills available in order to
confirm the times when they had placed calls.
The participants agreed to report any nonfatal
collision in which they were involved.
10. Citing more than one source at a
time
While some distracted drivers receive
monetary fines, others are asked to complete
community service (Pena, Ippolito J1).
11. Example paragraph—page 5
As of December 2000, twenty countries were
restricting use of cell phones in moving vehicles
(Sundeen 8). In the United States, it is highly
unlikely that legislation could be passed on the
national level, since traffic safety is considered a
state and local issue. To date, only a few counties
and towns have passed traffic laws restricting cell
phone use. For example, in Suffolk County, New
York, it is illegal for drivers to use a handheld
phone for anything but an emergency call while on
the road (Haughney). The first town to restrict use
of handheld phones was Brooklyn, Ohio (Layton).
Brooklyn, the first community in the country to
pass a seat belt law, has once again shown its
concern for traffic safety.
12. Final Copy of a Paragraph
As of December 2000, twenty countries were
restricting use of cell phones in moving vehicles
(Sundeen 8). In the United States, it is highly
unlikely that legislation could be passed on the
national level, since traffic safety is considered a
state and local issue. To date, only a few counties
and towns have passed traffic laws restricting cell
phone use. For example, in Suffolk County, New
York, it is illegal for drivers to use a handheld
phone for anything but an emergency call while on
the road (Haughney). The first town to restrict use
of handheld phones was Brooklyn, Ohio (Layton).
Brooklyn, the first community in the country to
pass a seat belt law, has once again shown its
concern for traffic safety.
13. Resources for you!
Purdue University’s Writing Center Web
page…
Google the following: OWL MLA or Purdue
MLA
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
