MLA Citations
It is MANDATORY that you cite
BOTH on the Works Cited or (Annotated) Bibliography
in your text –
parenthetical/in-text citations
Annotated Bibliography
1.
You must
alphabetize your sources by the first letter of the first word.
2.
Indent
3.
Right-click on
your website URL’s and select Remove Hyperlink
Rules for in-text citations:
1. Cite
2. Do NOT cite from a source
that is not on your Works Cited.
3. If you are mentioning the name of the author in your own
sentence, then just put the page # in () at the end of your sentence. If it’s a
webpage, then don’t put anything in () at the end.
Dr. Salt mentioned that “salt
is not always good for your health” (17).
As the saying goes, we need
to “take everything with a grain of salt” (Salt 18).
4. If you are NOT using
the name of the author, then in parenthesis at the end of your citation,
you have to put (last name page#), for
example (Garlic 21).
As the saying goes, we need
to “take everything with a grain of salt” (Salt 18).
5. If you do not have an author, then you have
to cite using the title either in your sentence
or in () THE WAY IT APPEARS (italicized or in quotes) on your Works Cited, for
example: (“Fresco Painting”).
In Gameshows, the
author is opposing…(Garlic 21)
6. Personal interviews RULE:
RULE: Name of person you interview. Type of interview. Date of interview.
Maxine, Cynthia.
Phone interview.
Works Cited
“Fresco Painting.” Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 2002. Encyclopedia Britannica. 8
May 2002.
Web.
Garlic, John. Gameshows Touch Our Lives.
Hoffmann,
Heinrich. “Struwwelpeter.” Trans. Mark
Twain. Nineteenth-Century German
Stories. Ed. Robert Godwin-Jones.
Pepper,
Paul. “This Once Was a David of the Earth.” New York Times
Salt,
Joey. “Exploding Myths.” New Republic
Smith, Joanne. “Instructing an Agent.” Mosaic 34.2 (2001): 133-48. Print.
Sample Annotated Bibliography
The Annotated Bibliography looks identical to an MLA Works Cited page with one exception: it has annotations (or notes) explaining the thesis or content of each source.
Below is a sample Annotated Bibliography from an essay researching the poet George Herbert:
Annotated Bibliography
Caton, Steven C. "The Poetic
Construction of the Self." Anthropological Quarterly.
58.4 (1985):141-148. Print. An anthropological study of the North Yemeni wedding ceremony. The ceremony involves performance of an oral verse genre called the balah, and Caton argues that during this performance, the honorable self emerges.
Elsky, Martin. "George Herbert's Pattern Poems and the Materiality of Language: A New
Approach to Renaissance Hieroglyphics." ELH. 50.2 (1983): 245-60. Print. Elsky examines the materiality of language, whereby written language imitates speech, and letters are manmade signs that represent the sounds of spoken language.
Severance, Sibyl Lutz. "Self-Persistence in The Temple: George Herbert's"Artillerie."