This document provides an overview of MLA citation style guidelines for documenting sources in research papers according to the MLA Handbook 7th edition. It covers citing various publication types, including periodical articles, books, web publications, and other common sources. For each publication type, it lists the core elements that must be included in a citation, such as author name, title, publication details. It also provides examples of formatted citations for different sources like books, journal articles, and webpages.
Unit- 1 MLAHandbook 7th
Ed.Ch.5
Documentation: Preparing the List of
Works Cited _MLA Handbook for Writers
Of Research Papers
Roll No. 4
M. Phil. : Sem 1
Prepared By: Mehta Drashti B.
Submitted to: Swami Sahajanand College of
Commerce and Management. Bhavnagar.
2.
1.Documenting
Sources
2.MLA Style
3.The Listof
Works Cited
6.Citing Web
Publications
5.Citing
Nonperiodical
Print
Publications
4.Citing
Periodical Print
Publications
7.Citing
Additional
Common
Sources
2.MLA Style
The aestheticand ideological
orientation of
jazz underwent considerable scrutiny in
the
late 1950s and early 1960s.(Anderson
7)
5.
Works Cited List
MLA
Anderson, lain. This is Our Music: Free
Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture.
Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007.
Print. The Arts and Intellectual Life in
mod. Amer.
APA
Anderson, I.(2007). This is Our music
Free Jazz, the sixties, and American
culture. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press.
6.
3.The List ofWorks Cited
Introduction: Key features of a work
Placement of the List of Works Cited
Arrangement of Entries
Two or More Works by the same
author
Two or more works by the same
authors
7.
4.Citing Periodical Print
Publication
Introduction
An Article in a Scholarly Journal
An Article in a Scholarly Journal That uses Only Issue
Numbers
An Article in a Scholarly Journal with More Than One
Series
An Article in a Newspaper
An Article in a Magazine
A Review
An Abstraction in an Abstracts Journal
An Anonymous Article
An Editorial
A Letter to the Editor
A Serialized article
A Special Issue
8.
Authors Name
Title of an article
Name of the periodical
Series number or name
Volume number
Issue number
Date of publication
Inclusive page numbers
Medium of publication consulted
Supplementary information
<
Title of theArticle
Title of
article
Author’
s name
11.
5.Citing Nonperiodical Print
Publication
Introduction
A Book by a Single Author
An Anthology or a Compilation
A Book by Two or More
Authors
A Book By a Corporate Author
A Work in an Anthology
An Article in a Reference Book
An Introduction, a Preface, a
Foreword, or an Afterword
An Anonymous Book
A Scholarly Edition
A Translation
An Illustrated Book or a
Graphic Narrative
A Book Published in a Second
or Subsequent Edition
A Book in a series
A Republished Book or Journal
Issue
A Publisher’s Imprint
A Book with Multiple Publishers
A Brochure, Pamphlet , or
Press Release
A Government Publication
The Published Proceedings of
a Conference
A Book in a Language other
than English
A Book Published Before 1900
A Book without Stated
Publication Information or
Pagination
An Unpublished Dissertation
A Published dissertation
12.
A Book bya Single Author
One of the most common items in student’s works cited lists
is the entry for a book by a single author. Such an entry
characteristically has three main divisions : Author’s name.
Title of the book. Publication information.
Here is an example:
Frank, Damon. Modernist Heresies: British Literary History,
1883-194. Columbus: Ohio State UP,2008.Print.
13.
6.Citing Web Publications
Nonperiodicalpublication
A Scholarly Journal:
Medium of Publication consulted (Web)
Data of Access( Day, Month, Year)
A Periodical Journal in an online database:
14.
Introduction
Awork Cited only on the web
A work on the Web cited with Print
Publication Data
A work on the Web Cited with
publication Data for Another Medium
besides Print
15.
7.Citing Additional Common
Sources
A Television or Radio
Broadcast
A Sound Recording
A Film or a Video
Recording
A Performance
A Musical Score or a
Libretto
A Work of Visual Art
An Interview
A Map or Chart
A Cartoon or Comic Strip
An Advertisement
A Lecture, A Speech, an
Address, or a Reading
A Manuscript or Typescript
A Letter, A Memo, or an –
Email Message
A Legal Source
An Article in a Microform
Collection of Articles
An Article Reprinted in a
Loose-Leaf Collection of
Articles
A Publication on CD_ROM
or DVD-ROM
A Digital File
16.
Vendor’s Name
Publication Date
a.A Nonperiodical
Publication on CD-ROM
or DVD –ROM
Author’s name if not
given-
Total of the publication
italicized
Name of the editor,
compiler or translator
Edition, release, or
version
Place of Publication
Name of Publisher
Date of Publication
Medium of Publication
Consulted
Supplementary
a. Material from a
periodically Published
Database on CD-ROM
or DVD-ROM
b. Multidisc Publication
17.
A Work inMore than One
Publication Medium
Ex. A book with a CD-ROM