MLA CITATION FORMS FOR WORKS CITED

QUICK START SHEET/Sixth Edition

SEPTEMBER, 2006

PRINT RESOURCES

BOOK:

Freedman, Richard R. What Do Unions Do? New York: Basic, 1984.

ARTICLE In a JOURNAL or MAGAZINE:

Mann, Susan. “Myths of Asian Womanhood.” Journal of Asian Studies

59 (2000): 835-62.

Weintraub, Arlene and Laura Cohen. “A Thousand Year Plan for

Nuclear Waste.” Business Week 6 May 2002: 94-96.

A PICTURE, SCULPTURE OR PHOTOGRAPH:

Cassatt, Mary. Mother and Child. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita.

American Painting: 1560-1913. by John Pearce. New York:

McGraw, 1964. Plate 22.

Evans, Walker. Penny Picture Display. 1936. Museum of Mod.Art, New

York. 30 May 2002

<http://www.moma.org/collection/photography/pages/

evans.penny.html>.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

ONLINE BOOK (E-BOOK):

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Twice-Told Tales. Ed. George Parsons Lathrop.

Boston: Houghton, 1883. 16 May

2002<http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/nh/ttt.html>.

WORK FROM A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE SUCH AS PROQUEST:

Koretz, Gene. “Economic Trends: Uh-Oh Warm Water.” Business Week

21 July 1997:ProQuest Platinum. Duchesne Academy Middle/Upper

School Library, Houston, TX 28 Aug. 2002

<http://proquest.umi.com/pdqweb>.

(The above citation is for a magazine. The next citation is for a journal.)

Youakim, Sami. “Work-Related Asthma.” American Family Physician

64 (2001): 1839-52. ProQuest Platinum. Duchesne Academy

Middle/Upper School Library, Houston, TX 2 Sept. 2005

<http://proquest.umi.com/pdqweb>.

WEB SITE:

The following citation is for an online scholarly project or information database web site:

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet. 19 June 2001. Lib. of

Congress, Washington. 25 May 2005 http://thomas.loc.gov/.

The following citation is a basic entry for documents from Internet sites:

“Fresco Painting.” Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 2006 Encyclopaedia

24 Aug. 2006 http://search.eb.com/.

The following citation is for a personal home page:

Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 28 Mar. 2002. 15 May 2002

<http://www.chassutoronto.ca:8080/~ian/>.

E-MAIL

Boyle, Anthony T. “Re: Utopia.” E-mail to Daniel J. Cahill. 21 June

2006.

NOTE: The guide is intended to be a “quick start” tool for your work. All information has been taken from the sixth edition of the MLA Handbook For Writers of Research Papers (2003). Refer to the sixth edition for all further documentation.