FYS 120AB: Using Your Voice: Conversation and Connection on Campus

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Modern Language Association (MLA) Style, 9th edition

MLA Handbook, 9th edition
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MLA 9th Edition Formatting and Style Guide
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ZoteroBib
Paste a link, DOI, or title, choose your citation style, and ZoteroBib will generate a citation for you to copy and paste. Remember, you will still need to check your citations for accuracy.

Core Elements

Assemble the Core Elements in the following order, using the indicated punctuation marks.

Author.
Title of source.
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication date,
Location.

Examples

Basic Book Format:

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin, 1987.

Basic Magazine Article Format:

Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time, 20 Nov. 2000, pp. 70-71.

Basic Journal Article Format:

Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50.