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1 Olympia High School Media Center Reference Guide MLA 7 Works Cited MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association, 2009. Olympia High School English Department. Personal Interview. 10 Dec. 2009. 2 Table of Contents Contents BOOKS ............................................................................................................................... 3 Textbooks ........................................................................................................................... 5 Magazines .......................................................................................................................... 5 Article from bimonthly periodical ............................................................................... 5 Article from weekly or biweekly periodical ................................................................ 6 Unsigned article ........................................................................................................... 6 Newspapers ........................................................................................................................ 6 Signed article in daily paper ........................................................................................ 6 Unsigned article in quarterly paper ............................................................................. 6 Letter to the editor ....................................................................................................... 6 Pamphlet ............................................................................................................................ 6 Government Publication .................................................................................................. 6 Interview ............................................................................................................................ 6 E-Mail................................................................................................................................. 7 Internet............................................................................................................................... 8 Florida Choices Planner ........................................................................................... 8 GaleNet ....................................................................................................................... 9 Occupational Outlook Handbook Online ................................................................ 9 Entire Internet Website .......................................................................................... 10 Personal Home Page ................................................................................................ 10 SIRS .......................................................................................................................... 10 Britannica Online /English Version ....................................................................... 11 Digital File (PDF, Microsoft Word, MP3) .................................................................... 11 CD-ROM or DVD-ROM (Not musical or video) ......................................................... 12 Television or Radio Program ......................................................................................... 12 DVD (Movie), Videocassette, Laser disc, Slide Program, Film, Filmstrip ................ 13 Song or Spoken-Word Recording (CD, LP, Audiocassette) ....................................... 13 Performance (play, opera, ballet, concert) ................................................................... 14 Musical Composition or Score ....................................................................................... 14 Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph .............................................................................. 14 Map, Chart, Cartoon, Comic Strip, Advertisement, Address, Reading, or Speech . 14 3 BOOKS Major Components: Person/s of Responsibility (Author/s or Editor/s) Title Information (Edition, Volume Number, etc.) Publication information: (City, Publisher, most recent copyright date) Book by a single author Barth, Edna. Holly, Reindeer, and Colored Lights. New York: Clarion Books, 1971. Print. Book with no author or editor (Do not use Anonymous.) Encyclopedia of Virginia. New York: Somerset, 1993. Print. Book by two authors Gillgud, John, and John Miller. Acting Shakespeare. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1991. Print. Book by three authors Hirsch, E. D., Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Print. Book with four or more authors Shephard, Alan, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbee, and Howard Benedict. Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon. Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1994. Print. OR Shephard, Alan, et al. Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon. Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1994. Print. **Note: “et al” = “and others”. Book with an editor Stevens, John D., ed. Sharks. New York: Checkmark Books, 1999. Print. Book with several editors Polking, Kirk, Joan Bloss, and Colleen Cannon, eds. Writer’s Encyclopedia. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1983. Print. 4 Book by a corporate author (A corporate author may be a commission, an association, a committee, or any other group whose individual members are not identified on the title page. Omit any initial article such as “A, An, The”.) American Medical Association. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine. Ed. Charles B. Clayman. New York: Random, 1996. Print. Work in an anthology (Source within a Source) Dove, Rita. “The Original Ballerina.” The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. 85-95. Print. Multivolume work with a single author Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Oxford Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Owen Dudley Edwards. Vol. 8. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Print. Multivolume work with an editor (signed and unsigned articles) Anderson, Paul. “Susan Ashton.” Contemporary Musicians. Ed. Brian Escamilla. Vol. 17. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. Print. Article in a well-known or commonly used reference book such as an encyclopedia, dictionary( unabridged and abridged), thesaurus, atlas, etc. (signed and unsigned articles) Busch, A. J. “Citadel.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 2006. Print. “Noon.” The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 2003. Print. “Azimuthal Equidistant Projection.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 2001. Print. “Duty.” Def. 5c. Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged. 2nd ed. 2008. Print. “Duty.” Bartlett’s Roget’s Thesaurus. 2009. Print. National Geographic Atlas of the World. 7th ed. 1999. Print. Article in a less well-known reference book such as an encyclopedia, dictionary, etc. (signed and unsigned articles) Le Patourel, John. “Normans and Normandy.” Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph R. Strayer. Vol. 3. New York: Scribner’s, 1987. Print. Strong, James, LL.D., S.T.D. The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1996. Print. 5 Edition of a book Grauer, Robert T., and Gretchen Marx. Essentials of the Internet. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. Print. Translated work Sagan, Francoise. Sunlight on Cold Water. Trans. Joanna Kilmartin. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1978. Print. **Note: Example of foreign country as place of publication. Religious Works The Holy Bible. New York: New American Library, 1962. Print. Revised Standard Version. Holy Qur'an. Trans. M. H. Shakir. Elmhurst, NY: Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, n.d. Print. Gale Print Series (Source within a Source) Oates, Joyce Carol. “Emily Bronte.” Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism. Eds. Cherie D. Abbey and Janet Mullane. Vol. 16. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1987. Print. An Introduction, a Preface, a Foreward, or an Afterword Borges, Jorge Lewis. Foreward. Selected Poems. By Upton Sinclair. New York: Signet, 1990. v-ix. Print. Textbooks Bulliet, Richard W., et al. The Earth and Its Peoples. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. Print. Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “Recuerdo.” Elements of Literature. Fifth Course. Florida Edition. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2003. Print. Magazines Article from monthly periodical LaRoe, Lisa Moore. “LaSalle’s Last Voyage.” National Geographic. May 1997: 72-83. Print. Article from bimonthly periodical Thwaites, Tim, et al. “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Kangaroos.” International Wildlife. Sept.-Oct. 1997: 34-43. Print. ** Note (“et al” = “and others”) 6 Article from weekly or biweekly periodical Plagens, Peter, and Roy Sawhill. “Throw Out the Brushes: Commercial Artists Are Going Digital.” Newsweek. Sept. 1, 1997: 75-77. Print. Unsigned article “Active Traveler Directory.” Outside. July 1997: 149-157. Print. Newspapers Signed article in daily paper Varma, Kavita. “Footnotes in Electronic Age.” USA Today. 7 Feb. 1996: D7. Print. Unsigned article in quarterly paper “Saving the Indiana Bat.” The Indiana Sierran. Winter 1997:4. Print. Letter to the editor Carlson, Gavin C. Letter. Princeton Post Dispatch. 8 Aug. 1997:28-30. Print. Pamphlet American Council on Education. College Teaching as a Career. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1998. Print. Government Publication United States. Cong. House. Hearings. 79th Cong., 1st and 2nd