Formats you will use in your bibliographies

The Modern Language Association (MLA) has developed a style guide to standardize academic writing.   We will follow the MLA guidelines when creating a bibliography.

Here are the formats for the most common resources you will use for your reports.  

Print Resources

• Book by one author

• Author's Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Print.

• Book by more than one author

• Author's Last name, First Name and First Name LastName. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Print.

• Encyclopedia

• Author's Last name, first Name. "Title of Article." Name of Encyclopedia. Edition Year. Print.

• Newspaper or Magazine Article

• Author's Last name, first Name. "Title of Article." Newspaper Name date: page(s). Print.

Example of an MLA citation for a book:

Dalgliesh, Alice. The Columbus Story. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. Print.

Internet Resources

Note: If you cannot find information such as author, artist, photographer, date last updated or name of organization, just omit it from the citation.

• Internet Website

• Author's Last name, First name. Title of Website .  Name of organization that owns/runs the site, Date of Last Update or Creation. Web. Date accessed .<URL. >

•  Online Encyclopedia

• Author's Last name, First name."Title of Article." Name of Encyclopedia. Year. Name of organization that owns/runs the site . Web. Date accessed.<url>.

• Online Database

• Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Article."  Original periodical name. Date published. Online database name. Web. Date accessed .<url>.
• Online Image 
•   Last name , First name. "description or title of image."Date of image.  Name of   organization that owns/runs the site. Web. Date accessed.<URL> .

Example of a citation for a website

Columbus.Oracle ThinkQuest Library. 1998. Web.  October 12, 2009.   <http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/columbus.html.>

St. Gerard Majella. Catholic Online. 2010 .Web. October 13, 2010. 

 <http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=150.>

Example of a citation for an Online Encyclopedia 

Flint, Valerie."Christopher Columbus." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Web. 21 Oct. 2009.

        <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/127070/Christopher-Columbus>.

Note: 

• The list is in  alphabetical order based on the first word in the citation.
• The second line of each entry is indented 5 spaces( hanging indent).
• There is a form titled "Citation Organizer" on the sidebar of this wiki.  PRINT THIS OUT BEFORE YOU START YOUR RESEARCH. This form will make it easy to keep track of the sources you used.  Use the back of the paper or an additional form if you need citations for additional sources.  

Online Bibliography Creator

If you have all the information you need to create your citation  (Use your citation organizer!)  You can use easybib.com to create it!

http://easybib.com/