<p> MLA Style Guide</p><p>Part One: Parenthetical References (***Embedded References) </p><p>Parenthetical referencing is used in the body of your paper to make reference to someone else’s ideas. For example when you paraphrase someone’s ideas or use a direct quotation, you will need to include a parenthetical reference.</p><p>A. Provide the author’s last name and the page number (s) in parentheses followed following the paraphrase or quotation.</p><p>B. The author’s name can appear in the sentence itself, but the page number(s) should appear in parentheses and not in the sentence</p><p>Examples</p><p>Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).</p><p>Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).</p><p>Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).</p><p>C. Internet sources often have no page or paragraph numbers, and Web sites often list no author. Cite the author's name whenever possible, and use the source’s title otherwise (or a shortened version of the title). If no page or paragraph number is provided, leave that portion of the citation blank. Keep in mind that the primary purpose of an in-text citation is simply to point readers to the correct entry on the “Works Cited’ page.</p><p>Examples </p><p>Butterflies are at risk of becoming extinct because of the actions of men (Butterflies at Risk).</p><p>Part Two: Bibliography/Works Cited</p><p>This is part of your report/essay where you will list all of the books that you used to help you do your research. Some teachers will want you only to list the books that you cited in the body of your paper. This would be called Works Cited.</p><p>If your teacher wants you to list all of the books you used in order to do your reach then you will be creating a Bibliography.</p><p>General Formatting Guidelines:  The Biography/Works Cited will be a separate page in your assignment  Arrange all items by the author’s last name alphabetically  Indent the second and following lines of each entry ½ inch (1cm) o this is called a hanging indent in Word.  Use double spacing  If no author is available, start with the Title/topic  Use quotation marks, underlining and punctuation as shown in the examples  Dates should be in the following order – Day Month Year</p><p>MLA Style Guide 1  Shorten all months except May, June and July o Example: 14 Nov. 2008</p><p>Books</p><p>Basic Format for a Book</p><p>Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.</p><p>Examples</p><p>Gleick, James. Cars and Trucks. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.</p><p>Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999.</p><p>Book with More Than One Author</p><p>First author name is written last name first; subsequent author names are written first name, last name.</p><p>Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn,</p><p>2000. </p><p>If there are more than three authors, you may list only the first author followed by the phrase et al. (the abbreviation for the Latin phrase "and others"; no period after "et") in place of the other authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page. </p><p>Wysocki, Anne, et al. Learning to Write. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004.</p><p>An Edition of a Book</p><p>Cite the book as you normally would, but add the number of the edition after the title.</p><p>Crowley, Sharon and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004.</p><p>A Work Prepared by an Editor</p><p>Cite the book as you normally would, but add the editor after the title.</p><p>Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Margaret Smith. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.</p><p>MLA Style Guide 2 Article in Reference Book (Dictionary or Encyclopedia)</p><p>Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Dictionary or Encyclopedia Name. Edition. Year of publication.</p><p>*If you do not know the author you can start with the Title of the Article</p><p>"Ideology." The American Heritage Dictionary. 3rd ed. 1997.</p><p>Poston, John. “Radiation.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 4th ed. 2009.</p><p>Newspaper or Magazine Article </p><p>Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages.</p><p>Magazine Examples</p><p>Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71.</p><p>Buchman, Dana. "A Special Education." Good Housekeeping Mar. 2006: 143-8.</p><p>Newspaper Examples</p><p>Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post 24 May </p><p>2007: LZ01.</p><p>Krugman, Andrew. "Fear of Eating." New York Times 21 May 2007: A1.</p><p>Web Sources An Entire Web Site</p><p>Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site <URL>.</p><p>The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue </p><p>University. 23 April 2006 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu>.</p><p>Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue University. 10 May 2006 </p><p><http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory>.</p><p>MLA Style Guide 3 A Page on a Web Site</p><p>For an individual page on a Web site, list the author or alias if known, followed by the information you would use for an entire Web site. If you cannot locate some of the information it can be omitted. Make sure the URL points to the exact page you are referring to. </p><p>Author’s name or alias (if known). “Name of the page.” Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site <URL>.</p><p>Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University </p><p>Writing Lab. 12 May 2006 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/>.</p><p>"Caret." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. 10 May 2006 </p><p><http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caret&oldid=157510440>.</p><p>"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. 10 May 2006 <http://www.ehow.com how_10727_make-</p><p> vegetarian-chili.html>.</p><p>Images and Photographs</p><p>Last name, first name of Artist. Title of Image. Date of image (if available). Title of website where image was located. Date you accessed the site <URL>.</p><p> van Gogh, Vincent. The Starry Night. 1889. Museum of Mod. Art, New York. 3 Feb. 2003 </p><p><http://moma.org/collection/depts/paint_sculpt/blowups/paint_sculpt_003.html>. brandychloe. Great Horned Owl Family. Webshots.com. 22 May 2006 </p><p><http://image46.webshots.com/47/7/17/41/347171741bgVWdN_fs.jpg>.</p><p>MLA Style Guide 4</p>