MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION MLA. WHERE CAN YOU FIND THIS INFORMATION? Style manual Purdue Owl Libraries/bookstores Tutorial Center.

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MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION MLA

WHERE CAN YOU FIND THIS INFORMATION? Style manual Purdue Owl Libraries/bookstores Tutorial Center

FORMATTING YOUR PAGE Margins Header Name block Font & font size

IMPORTANCE OF IN-TEXT CITATIONS Include author's name and page number

IN-TEXT CITATION WITH A SIGNAL PHRASE Frederick Lane reports that employers do not necessarily have to use software to monitor how their employees use the Web: employers can “use a hidden video camera pointed at an employee’s monitor” and even position a camera ”so that a number of monitors [can] be viewed at the same time” (147).

THE WORKS CITED PAGE Only include the works that have been cited in your in-text citations. You may have used the works in the form of quotations, references, summaries, or paraphrases. Alphabetical Order Double Space Hanging Indents

BOOKS Single Author Last name, First. Title. City: Publisher, copyright year. Essay w/in a book Barry, Dave. “All The Rage.” Wordsmith: A Guide To Paragraphs and Essays. 2 nd Ed. Ed. Pamela Arlov. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall,

DATABASES The basic information for a citation from a database: Article Author. “Article Title.” Journal Title Volume Number.Issue Number (Year of Publication): Page Numbers. Database Name. Publication Medium. Date of Access. Example: Fox, Justin. “What in the World Happened to Economics?” Fortune 15.3 (2001): EBSCOhost. Web. 2 Mar Note: when doing your research, always send the links to your from the article databases. This way you will have all the necessary citation information. As an added bonus, you can send yourself the citation in MLA format. It may require some reformatting, but you will essentially have all the basic information you need.

INTERNET SOURCES Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution or organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access. Maugh, Thomas H. "Cloned Animals May Age Prematurely, Scientists Say." Los Angeles Times latimes.com 27 May June 1999.

Taken from Diana Hacker