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Citation Style: MLA: Work Cited: Examples

A LibGuide for the MLA Citation Style

Books

One author:

Cotton, Margaret A. Computer Addiction? A Study of Computer Dependency.

London: Taylor & Francis, 1989. Print.

More than one author:

Hutcheon, Linda, and Michael Hutcheon. Bodily Charm: Living Opera.

Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000. Print.

Book Chapters

More, Hannah. “The Black Slave Trade: A Poem.”  British Women Poets of the

Romantic Era. Ed. Paula R.  Feldman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,

1997. 472-82. Print.

Newspapers

Print:

Haughney, Christine. “Women Unafraid of Condo Commitment.” New York

Times 10 Dec. 2006, late   ed., sec. 11: 1+. Print.

Dwyer, Jim. “Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of   Passionate Intensity.”

New York Times 20 July 2008, early ed., Arts and Leisure

sec.: 1+. Print.

Online:

“The Scientists Speak.” Editorial. New York Times. New York Times,

20 Nov. 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.

Journal Articles

Print:

Brueggeman, Brenda Jo, and Debra A.   Moddelmog. “Coming-Out Pedagogy:

Risking Identity in Language and Literature Classrooms.” Pedagogy,

2.3(2002): 311-35. Print.

Database:

Brueggeman, Brenda Jo, and Debra A.   Moddelmog. “Coming-Out Pedagogy:

Risking Identity in Language and Literature Classrooms.” Pedagogy,

2.3(2002): 311-35. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Apr. 2010. 

Films or Videos

It’s a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed,

Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas Mitchell. RKO, 1946. Film.

It’s a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed,

Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas Mitchell. RKO, 1946. Republic,

2001. DVD.

A particular individual:

Chaplin, Charles, dir. Modern Times. Perf. Chaplin and Paulette Goddard.

United Artists, 1936. Film.