| Modern Language Association (MLA) style requires in-text parenthetical citations throughout the text and an alphabatized list of works cited at the end of the paper. Please see Lunsford's Everyday Writer, chapter 54, or the MLA website for more information.
PLEASE NOTE: In-text citations will vary depending on how much information you give about the source in the text of your paper. For example, if you refer to the author by name, include only the page number in the in-text citation:
Lofgren found similar results in his study (235).
For more information on parenthetical citations, see Everyday Writer, 369-373.
| Book, one author (see Everyday Writer, 370 & 374) |
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in-text:
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(Last name page number)
(Egan 47)
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works cited:
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Last name, first name. Title. City: Publisher, date.
- Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.
 Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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| Book, two or more authors (see Everyday Writer, 370 & 375) |
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in-text:
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(Last name, Last name, and Last name page number)
(Kuebler, Davis, and Moore 219)
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| works cited: |
First author's last name, first name, Second author's first name last name, and Third author's
first name last name. Title. City: Publisher, date.
Kuebler, Kim, Mellar P. Davis, and Crystal Dea Moore. Palliative Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
St. Louis: Elsevier Mosby, 2005.
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| Chapter of an edited volume or anthology (see Everyday Writer, 372 & 378) |
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in-text:
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NOTE: Use the author of the chapter or selected work, not the editor of the book.
(Last name page number)
(Tripp 72)
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works cited:
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NOTE: Begin with the author of the chapter or selected work, not the editor of the book.
Last name, first name. "Title of selection." Title of Book. Ed. First name last name of editor.
City: Publisher, date.
Tripp, Aili Mari. "Women in Movement: Transformations in African Political Landscapes." Gender and Civil Society:
Transcending Boundaries. Eds. Jude Howell and Diane Mulligan. London: Routledge, 2005.
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| Encyclopedia or Dictionary entry (see Everyday Writer, 380) |
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in-text:
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Note: If an encyclopedia or dictionary does not have an author, it will be alphabatized in your list of works cited by the word or entry you cited. No page number is necessary since your readers can easily look up the entry.
("entry")
("Sukiyaki")
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works cited:
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"Entry." Title of Encyclopedia or Dictionary. edition [if any] date of edition.
"Sukiyaki." The New Encyclopedia Britannica: Micropaedia. 15th ed. 2002.
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| Journal article (see Everyday Writer, 381) |
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in-text:
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(Last name page number)
(Goldberg 514)
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works cited:
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Last Name, First name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal. Volume (year): pages.
Goldberg, Sanford C. "Testimonially Based Knowledge from False Testimony."
Philosophical Quarterly 51 (2001): 512-26.
Note: The above entry is for journals that continue their page numbers throughout the year instead of beginning each issue with page 1. For journals that begin each issue with page 1, add a period and the issue number after the volume number: 24.2
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| Article in a database (see Everyday Writer, 386-9) |
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in-text:
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(Last name page number)
(Still 111)
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works cited:
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Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal. Volume (year): pages. Name of Database.
Name and location of library where you retrieved the article. Retrieval date <URL>.Still, Julie. "Beguines in Outer Space, or, the Undergraduate Research Process." The History Teacher.
31.1 (1997): 109-116. JSTOR. Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library, St. Peter, MN. 1 Dec. 2006
<http//:www.jstor.org/search>.
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| Web site (see Everyday Writer, 387, 390-2) |
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in-text:
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(Last name page number)
Note: If the author is unknown, use the title or a shortened form of it. If there are no page numbers, omit numbers.
("Finding Primary Sources")
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Last name, First name [if known]. "Title of work." Title of Web site. Date of publication or last update.
Sponsoring organization. Access date <URL>."Finding Primary Sources," Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library. 17 Oct. 2006. Gustavus Adolphus College.
4 Dec. 2006 http://gustavus.edu/academics/library/research/primary-sources.html .
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