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The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook, the official guide to MLA format. Works are published today in a dizzying variety of ways: a novel, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book--or perhaps listened to as an audiobook. Writers of research papers routinely need to know how to cite works on Web sites, videos on platforms like YouTube, interviews and other works created by multiple authors, journal articles contained in databases, online images, posts on social media sites, song lyrics, and more. Instead of providing separate instructions for each format, the MLA's unique, innovative approach recommends one set of guidelines that writers can apply to any type of source. This groundbreaking edition of the MLA's best-selling handbook is short and designed for easy use. It guides writers through the principles behind evaluating sources for their research and thus focuses on the key skills of information and digital literacy. It then shows writers how to cite sources in their writing, offering detailed guidance on in-text citations, quoting and paraphrasing, avoiding plagiarism, and more. Intended for students, teachers, librarians, and advanced scholars, the handbook is an indispensable resource in composition, communication, literature, language arts, film, media studies, digital humanities, and related fields.
From the Writing Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison
MLA Formatting & Style Guide - Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Book: basic form, single author
| Webber, Michael. Thirst for Power: Energy, Water, and Human Survival. Yale University Press, 2016. |
Book: basic form, two authors
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Holmes, Richard T, and Gene E. Likens. Hubbard Book: The Story of a Forest Ecosystem. Yale University Press, 2016. |
Chapter in Edited work
| Meyer, Sabine N. "The Marshall Trilogy and Its Legacies." The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature, edited by Deborah L. Madsen, Routledge, 2016, pp.123-134. |
Journal Article
| Biswas, Soumendu, V. N. Giri, and Kailash B. L. Srivastava. "Assessing the Impact of Organizational Culture and Communication on Employee Performance and Organizational Effectiveness." Psychological Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, 2007, pp. 20-28. |
Magazine or Newspaper Article
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Zimmerman, Eilene. "To Foster Diversity, Paint the Big Picture." New York Times, 03 July 2011, p. 8. |
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