All sources for your research must be cited in proper Modern Language Association (MLA) format. For most of your work you will be using NoodleTools, at www.noodletools.com, that will automatically format your citations. Use this page as a guide to citing sources manually.
The following is an abridged guide using the MLA format. For a fairly complete listing for print sources see The OWL at Purdue or Monroe County (NY) Community College Guide to MLA Style.
Internet (web page)
To cite files available on the internet, give the author's name last name first (if available); the full title of the page “in quotation marks;” the title of the complete web site (if applicable) in italics or underlined; the date the page was created or its last revision (if available); followed by the date you accessed the site. Finally the web address or URL should be in <angle brackets>.
Examples:
Epps, Garrett. “You Have No Right to Vote.” salon.com. 14 September 2006. 1 Oct. 2006. <http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/21/no_right_to_vote/index1.html>
“Report: Abramoff team had 485 contacts with White House” CNN.com. 29 September 2006. 8 Oct. 2006. <http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/29/abramoff.wh.ap/>
Sources Located through electronic services like EBSCOhost or JSTOR
Because most of sources located through these services are magazine, journal, or newspaper articles, the citation format is a hybrid of those for a magazine and an online source.
Basic Citation Format:
Original Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of article." Article's original source Volume.Issue (publication date): page numbers. Collection name. Date of Access.
Examples:
Franklin, Bruce H. "'Star Trek' in the Vietnam Era." Science Fiction Studies 21.1 (Mar. 1994): 24-34. JSTOR. 21 May 2009. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/4240304>
Miller, Stanley A. "Klingon on your iPhone." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The (WI) (13 May 2009). Newspaper Source. EBSCO. 20 May 2009.
Book with one author
Author last name, First Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, year.
Example:
Cunningham, Timothy. Doctor Who Season 3: The Official Guide. London: Random House, 2008.
Book with more than one author
First author last name, first name, second author first & last name, third author first & last name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, year.
Example:
Cunningham, Timothy, Daniel Chittick and Carol Heath. Harsh Discipline in the Social Studies Classroom. Jenkintown, PA: Drake Publishing Inc., 2007.
Book with an editor instead of an author
Example:
Cunningham, Timothy, ed. Harsh Discipline in the Social Studies Classroom. Jenkintown, PA: Drake Publishing Inc., 2007.
Work by one author in a collection or anthology with an editor
Segment author's last, first name. "Name of segment." Name of whole book. Ed. Editor's first & last names. Place of publication, Publisher, date. Pages segment is on.
Example:
Cunningham, Timothy. "Social Studies and Star Trek: Made for Each Other." Star Trek: 40 Years of Excellence. Ed. William Shatner. Culver City, CA: Paramount Publishing, 2007. 17-42.
Magazine or Journal Article
Article Author last name, First name. "Title of Article." Name of Magazine Date of Magazine: page nos.
Example:
Cunningham, Timothy. "Enterprise v. Millennium Falcon v. Tardis--Fair Fight?" Sci-Fi Monthly February 2009: 25-30.
Article in Reference Book or Encyclopedia
Article author last name, first name. "Title of article." Name of Encyclopedia. Edition. Date.
Example:
Cunningham, Timothy. "Warp field dynamics." Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th. Ed. 2008.
Newspaper Article
Article author last name, first name. "Title of article." Name of Newspaper Date of newspaper: pages.
Example:
Cunningham, Timothy. "James Doohan's ashes meet the Final Frontier." Philadelphia Inquirer 1 May 2007: A5.