MLA 7 th ed. Basic Citation The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, _____Web. 27 Dec

Modern Language Association Basic Entry: A Book by a Single Author Author’s name Book Title Publication Information City of Publication Publishers Copyright Date Medium of Publication Citation Punctuation

Book Binns, Tristan Boyer. The Bald Eagle. Chicago: ……Rourke, Print. AuthorBook title City of publication Publisher Copyright Date Medium of publication

Bibliographic Citations Author Names Write the author’s name as presented on the title page, except in reverse order: Burke, Kenneth Levy, David M. Wallace, David Foster Entire edited collections –Smith, Sylvia, ed. –Trunce, Andrew, and Bryan Schmidt, eds.

Bibliographic Citations Author Names Do not list titles or degrees with names. John Bigbrain, PhD = Bigbrain, John.

Bibliographic Citations Author Names Do include suffixes (Jr. or II). –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr = King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Bibliographic Citations Author Names If more than one author Only reverse the order of the first name = Edwards, Jonathan, and Tom Smith.

Book Binns, Tristan Boyer. The Bald Eagle. Chicago: ……Rourke, Print. Book title

Title Punctuation No More Underlining! MLA now recommends italicizing titles of independently published works (books, periodicals, films, etc). The Hunger GamesThe Hunger Games NO!YES!

Subtitles Connect to the title with a colon (:) Italicize the entire title (including the subtitle). The Hobbit : There and Back Again A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Book Binns, Tristan Boyer. The Bald Eagle. Chicago: ……Rourke, Print. City of publication

Bibliographic Citations Publication Information City –First one listed NOT the closest or largest one. No state is needed Boston, New Haven, London, and San Francisco Boston

Book Binns, Tristan Boyer. The Bald Eagle. Chicago: ……Rourke, Print. Publisher

Publishers Cite only the last name of a publisher with the name of one person –Norton for W. W. Norton –Knopf for Alfred P. Knopf

Publishers Cite only the last name of the first listed for a publisher with multiple names –McGraw for McGraw-Hill –Harper Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. –Little Little, Brown and Company, Inc.

Other Abbreviations--Publishers Omit –Articles (a, the) –business abbreviations (Corp. or Inc.), –descriptive words (e.g. Press, Publishers, House) –Gale (Gale Research, Inc.) –Knopf (An Alfred P. Knopf Book) –Chelsea (Chelsea House Publishers)

Other Abbreviations--Publishers Use standard abbreviations when possible –Acad. for Educ. Dev. Academy for Educational Development, Inc.

Other Abbreviations--Publishers Use only U and P when referring to university presses –Cambridge UP –U of Chicago P

Other Abbreviations--Publishers Use the acronym of the publisher if the company is commonly know by that abbreviation –MLA, ERIC, GPO –MIT P (The MIT Press) –NCTE (The National Council of Teachers of English) –SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series) –UMI (University Microfilms International)

Book Binns, Tristan Boyer. The Bald Eagle. Chicago: ……Rourke, Print. Copyright Date

Bibliographic Citations Publication Information Date –Year of publication on front of title page –Otherwise, latest (most recent) copyright date listed on the back of the title page. –Note: Copyright is NOT the same as publication or edition. Look for the copyright symbol: ©2008

Book Binns, Tristan Boyer. The Bald Eagle. Chicago: ……Rourke, Print. Medium of Publication

Publication Medium Most entries will be listed as Print or Web, but other possibilities include Performance, DVD, or TV. Most of these markers will appear at the end of entries; However, markers for Web sources are followed by the date of access.

Bibliographic Citations Punctuation Last First MI Title Subtitle City Publisher Date Medium :,..,. :.

Practice Assignment Turn to page 31 Quote something significant with parenthetical documentation. –Do you need ellipses? –Do you need triple quotation marks for dialogue? Write a bibliographic citation for the book.