Berkeley School District Student Resources
(You can also go to Clever for some of the same links)
MLA: Modern Language Association: How to Cite Sources (Owl at Purdue)
Trent University MLA Citation Guide
Basic Tips
Double Sided
12 pt and a normal font (such as Arial or Times New Roman)
1 inch margins all around
Press tab ONCE at the beginning of each paragrah
Type your paragraphs WITHOUT pressing enter until you get to the end of your whole paragraph! Let the computer decide when to put words onto the next line!
Citing a Book with one author Taken from Trent U
In-text Citation: This mean in your actual paper at the end of the sentence where you used someone else's work or ideas. Write the author's last name and the page number you got your information from inside parenthesis. ( )
(Lem 202)
Works Cited: These are the parts you need to include on your works cited page for a book. A work cited page lists all the resources you used in your paper. There are different parts of a citation depending on if you used a website, magazine, book, etc. Capital letters, commas, italics, and periods are all very important!
Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year of Publication.
For Example:
Lem, Winnie. Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity and Praxis in Rural Languedoc. State U of New York P, 1999.
Author: Person or people who wrote the book, article, or website. List their last name, then their first name. Capitalize the first letter of their last and first names.
In the example above, Winnie Lem is the author so their name is written Lem, Winnie (last name comma first name)
Title: Full title of the book, magazine, or website
In the example above, Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity and Praxis in Rural Languedoc. is the title. It is in Italics, which means it looks like it is leaning over to the right.
Press Control + i to Italicize words.
Publisher: The name of the company that actually printed the book. Capitalize each word of the company's name.
In the example above, State U of New York is the publisher.
Year: What year was the book published? 1999
*All this information can usually be found in the first couple pages on the book.
Citing an Entire Website Taken from Trent U
In-text Citation: This mean in your actual paper at the end of the sentence where you used someone else's work or ideas. For a website, there are no page numbers so you only need the author's name.
(The Hypertext Pratt)
"You may, in fact, choose to use the authors' names or site name in your sentences and not use a parenthetical citation at all:"
The Hypertext Pratt makes available. . .
Works Cited: These are the parts you need to include on your works cited page for a book. A work cited page lists all the resources you used in your paper. There are different parts of a citation depending on if you used a website, magazine, book, etc. Capital letters, commas, italics, and periods are all very important!
Author, Corporate Author, Editor, Compiler Name. Title of Website, Version number or edition used if applicable, Name of publisher/sponsor/organization/institution affiliated with Website if different from Author, Day Month Year created if available, URL, or permalink. Accessed Day Month Year.
For Example:
The Hypertext Pratt. E.J. Pratt Publications Project, 2016, www.trentu.ca/faculty/pratt/. Accessed 25 Oct. 2016.
Author: Person or people who wrote the book, article, or website. List their last name, then their first name. Capitalize the first letter of their last and first names.
In the example above, there is no author listed. Some websites are published by a company and an individual name is not given.
Title: Full title of the book, magazine, or website
In the example above, The Hypertext Pratt is the title. It is in Italics, which means it looks like it is leaning over to the right.
Press Control + i to Italicize words.
Publisher: The name of the company that actually produced the website. Capitalize each word of the company's name.
In the example above, E.J. Pratt Publications Project is the publisher.
Year: What year was the website created? 2016
URL: Copy and paste the ENTIRE EXACT website where you got your information from
*NEVER write GOOGLE as your website source! Google is just a search engine! Copy the whole website listed at the top and use that. If you go to Google to search for a topic, click on the link to go to the actual website, not just the search results page.
Date Accessed: What is the date that you viewed and got information from the website? This is important in case the website changes their information on the website after you viewed it.
In the example above, Accessed 25 Oct. 2016 is the date. Note that you have to write the word Accessed and then write the date in the format, day month in abbreviated form and year..