This document provides guidelines for creating bibliographies in MLA style for various sources including periodicals, books, and online resources. It outlines the general formatting and structure for citing magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, and books whether in print or digital format. Specific examples are given for citing different periodical sources found both online and in print as well as books accessed online through databases or other digital means.

1. MAKING A BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOR PERIODICALS AND
BOOKS

2. BIBLIOGRAPHY
/,bi-blé-`ä-gr󠇧á-fé/
noun
- a list of books, magazines, articles, etc., about
a particular subject.
- a list of the books, magazines, articles, etc.,
that are mentioned in a text.
©Meriam-Webster Dictionary
- an alphabetized list of sources that have been
used to compile data, typically in an article,
essay, or research paper
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4. PART 1
PERIODICALS

5. PERIODICAL
noun
- a magazine that is published every week,
month, etc.
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- a paper that is used to share information,
and is updated every week, month, etc.

6. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A MAGAZINE
Bibliography:
Author󠇧`s Last Name, Fir󠇧st Name. “Title of
ar󠇧ticle.” Name of Magazine, Date of Publication.
Sample Citation:
Lepore, Jill. “Dickens in Eden,” New Yor󠇧ker󠇧,
August 29, 2011.

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AN ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE
Bibliography:
Author󠇧`s Last Name, Fir󠇧st Name. “ Title of ar󠇧ticle.” Name
of Magazine, Date of Publication. URL or doi number.
Sample Citation:
Grynbaum, Michael M. “A Mar󠇧ket Decline in Sear󠇧ch of a
Reason.” New Yor󠇧k Times Magazine, September󠇧 4, 2008.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/business/worldbus
iness05stox.15907105.html.

8. MAGAZINE PUBLISHED DIRECTLY ONLINE
-MLA STYLE
Format:
Last, Fir󠇧st M., and Fir󠇧st M. Last. “ Ar󠇧ticle Title.”
Magazine Title. Publisher, Date Month Year Published.
Web. Date Month Year Accessed.
Example:
Nasar, Sylvia, And David Gr󠇧uber󠇧. “Manifold Destiny.”
The New Yorker Conde Nast Digital, 28 Aug. 2006. Web.
30 Mar. 2010.

9. CITING A MAGAZINE ONLINE
-MLA style
Format:
Last, Fir󠇧st M. “Ar󠇧ticle Title.” Magazine Title. Date Month
Year Published. Website Title Web. Date Month Year
Accessed.
Examples:
Rothbart, Davy. “ How I Caught up with Dad.” Men`s
Health Oct. 2008. Google Books Web. 16 Mar. 2010.
Folger󠇧, Tim. “ Higgs: What Causes the Weight of the
Wor󠇧ld.” Discover󠇧 Magazine n.d.: n. pag. Web. 2 Jan. 2013.

10. CITING A MAGAZINE IN PRINT
-MLA style
Structure/Format:
Last, Fir󠇧st M. “ Ar󠇧ticle Title.” Magazine Title. Date Month Year󠇧
Published: Page(s).Print
Examples:
Jaeger󠇧, Jaclyn. “ Social Media Use in the Financial Industr󠇧y.”
Compliance Week 1 Aug. 2010: n. pag. Print.
Rothbart, Davy. “ How I Caught up with Dad.” Men`s Health Oct.
2008: 108-13. Print

11. CITING A NEWSPAPER ONLINE
-MLA style
Format:
Last, Fir󠇧st M. “Ar󠇧ticle Title.” Newspaper Title Date Month
Year Published: Page(s). Website Title. Web. Date Month
Year Accessed.
Example:
Mushnick, Phil. “Ster󠇧ling Continous to Call it Wr󠇧ong.”
New York Post N.p., 23 Apr. 2012. Web. 2 Jan. 2013.

12. CITING A NEWSPAPER IN PRINT
-MLA style
Structure/Format:
Last, Fir󠇧st M. “Ar󠇧ticle Title.” Newspaper Title [City]
Date Monthe Year Published: Page(s). Print.
Examples:
Bowman, Lee. “Bills Tar󠇧get Like Er󠇧ie Mussels.” The
Pittsburgh Press 7 Mar. 1990: A4. Print.

13. CITING SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
Bibliography:
Author󠇧`s Last Name, Fir󠇧st Name. “ Title of Ar󠇧ticle.”
Name of Journal volume, issue (Date of Publication):
pages.
Sample Citation:
Hise, Ger󠇧ar󠇧d. “Home Building and Industr󠇧ial
Decentr󠇧alization in L.A.” Jour󠇧nal of Ur󠇧ban Histor󠇧y 19,
no. 6 (1993): 95-125

14. CITING SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ONLINE
Bibliography:
Author󠇧`s Last Name, Fir󠇧st Name. “Title of Ar󠇧ticle.” Name of
Journal volume number, issue number (Date of Publication):
Publication): pages. URL or database or doi number or App
used.
Sample Citation:
Denk, Winfried, James H. Strickler, and Watt W. Webb. “Two-
photon Laser󠇧 Scanning Fluor󠇧escence Micr󠇧oscopy.” Science
248, no. 4951 (1990): 73-76.
http//dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.2321027.

15. PART 2 BOOK

16. CITING A BOOK IN PRINT
-MLA style
Sructure/Format:
Last, First M. Book. City: Publisher, Year
Published. Print.
Example:
James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Rockville:
Serenity, 2009. Print

17. CITING A BOOK ONLINE
-MLA style
Format:
Last, First M. Book. City: Publisher, Year Published.
Website Title. Web. Day Month Year Accessed.
Examples:
James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Rockville: Serenity,
2009. Google Books. Web. 16 Mar. 2010.
http://books.google.com

18. CITING A BOOK FROM A DATABASE
-MLA style
Format:
Last, First M. Book. City: Publisher, Year Published.
Database Name. Web. Date Month Year Accessed.
Examples:
Morem, Susan. 101 Tips for Graduates. New York:
Ferguson, 2005. Infobase Publishing eBooks. Web. 16
Mar. 2010. http://www.infobasepublishing.com

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