Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. . New York: Vintage, 1988. Print.
Casell, Kay Ann and Uma Hiremath. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004. Print.
(NOTE: Authors should be listed in the order they are listed on the title page.)
Robbins, Chandler S., et al. . New York: Golden, 1966. Print.
(or you may list all the authors in the order they appear on the title page, like so: Robbins, Chandler S., Bertel Bruun, and Herbert S. Zim.)
Homer. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Viking, 1996. Print.
Kimball, Jean. "Growing Up Together: Joyce and Psychoanalysis, 1900-1922." Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999. 25-45. Print.
Hughes, Ted. Introduction. By Sylvia Plath. Ed. Hughes. New York: HarperPerennial, 1992. 13-17. Print.
(where Hughes is the author of the Introduction, Plath is the author of the poems, and Hughes is also the editor. Page numbers are for the introduction)
Blamires, Harry. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 1996. Print.
Eliot, George. Ed. Bert G. Hornback. New York: Norton, 1977. Print.
Hannah, Daniel K. "The Private Life, the Public Stage: Henry James in Recent Fiction." 30.3 (2007): 70-94. Web. 21 July 2011.
Hannah, Daniel K. "The Private Life, the Public Stage: Henry James in Recent Fiction." 30.3 (2007): 70-94. Print.
Bulson, Eric. "Dead Slowly." Rev. of , by Fredric Jameson. 25 July 2008: 426. Print.
(where Bulson is the reviewer)
Farkas, Meredith. "Tips for Being a Great Blogger (and a Good Person)." N.p., 19 July 2011. Web. 26 July 2011.
Citation for web documents should include the following elements, in this order, if they can be found on the website (5.6.2):
How to write a lit review.
Examples of lit reviews, additional resources.
What is a literature review?
The organization of your lit review should be determined based on what you'd like to highlight from your research. Here are a few suggestions:
Your literature review should:
A literature review is an integrated analysis -- not just a summary-- of scholarly writings and other relevant evidence related directly to your research question. That is, it represents a synthesis of the evidence that provides background information on your topic and shows a association between the evidence and your research question.
A literature review may be a stand alone work or the introduction to a larger research paper, depending on the assignment. Rely heavily on the guidelines your instructor has given you.
Why is it important?
A literature review is important because it:
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Your literature review should be guided by your central research question. The literature represents background and research developments related to a specific research question, interpreted and analyzed by you in a synthesized way.
How many studies do you need to look at? How comprehensive should it be? How many years should it cover?
Make a list of the databases you will search.
Where to find databases:
Some questions to help you analyze the research:
Tips:
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The following overview should help you better understand how to cite sources using MLA 9 th edition, including how to format the Works Cited page and in-text citations.
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MLA is a style of documentation that may be applied to many different types of writing. Since texts have become increasingly digital, and the same document may often be found in several different sources, following a set of rigid rules no longer suffices.
Thus, the current system is based on a few guiding principles, rather than an extensive list of specific rules. While the handbook still describes how to cite sources, it is organized according to the process of documentation, rather than by the sources themselves. This gives writers a flexible method that is near-universally applicable.
Once you are familiar with the method, you can use it to document any type of source, for any type of paper, in any field.
Here is an overview of the process:
When deciding how to cite your source, start by consulting the list of core elements. These are the general pieces of information that MLA suggests including in each Works Cited entry. In your citation, the elements should be listed in the following order:
Each element should be followed by the corresponding punctuation mark shown above. Earlier editions of the handbook included the place of publication and required different punctuation (such as journal editions in parentheses and colons after issue numbers) depending on the type of source. In the current version, punctuation is simpler (only commas and periods separate the elements), and information about the source is kept to the basics.
Begin the entry with the author’s last name, followed by a comma and the rest of the name, as presented in the work. End this element with a period.
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994.
The title of the source should follow the author’s name. Depending upon the type of source, it should be listed in italics or quotation marks.
A book should be in italics:
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House . MacMurray, 1999.
An individual webpage should be in quotation marks. The name of the parent website, which MLA treats as a "container," should follow in italics:
Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.*
A periodical (journal, magazine, newspaper) article should be in quotation marks:
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.
A song or piece of music on an album should be in quotation marks. The name of the album should then follow in italics:
Beyoncé. "Pray You Catch Me." Lemonade, Parkwood Entertainment, 2016, www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/.
*The MLA handbook recommends including URLs when citing online sources. For more information, see the “Optional Elements” section below.
The eighth edition of the MLA handbook introduced what are referred to as "containers," which are the larger wholes in which the source is located. For example, if you want to cite a poem that is listed in a collection of poems, the individual poem is the source, while the larger collection is the container. The title of the container is usually italicized and followed by a comma, since the information that follows next describes the container.
Kincaid, Jamaica. "Girl." The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, edited by Tobias Wolff, Vintage, 1994, pp. 306-07.
The container may also be a television series, which is made up of episodes.
“94 Meetings.” Parks and Recreation, created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, performance by Amy Poehler, season 2, episode 21, Deedle-Dee Productions and Universal Media Studios, 2010.
The container may also be a website, which contains articles, postings, and other works.
Wise, DeWanda. “Why TV Shows Make Me Feel Less Alone.” NAMI, 31 May 2019, www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/May-2019/How-TV-Shows-Make-Me-Feel-Less-Alone . Accessed 3 June 2019.
In some cases, a container might be within a larger container. You might have read a book of short stories on Google Books , or watched a television series on Netflix . You might have found the electronic version of a journal on JSTOR. It is important to cite these containers within containers so that your readers can find the exact source that you used.
“94 Meetings.” Parks and Recreation , season 2, episode 21, NBC , 29 Apr. 2010. Netflix, www.netflix.com/watch/70152031?trackId=200256157&tctx=0%2C20%2C0974d361-27cd-44de-9c2a-2d9d868b9f64-12120962.
Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal , vol. 50, no. 1, 2007, pp. 173-96. ProQuest, doi:10.1017/S0018246X06005966. Accessed 27 May 2009.
In addition to the author, there may be other contributors to the source who should be credited, such as editors, illustrators, translators, etc. If their contributions are relevant to your research, or necessary to identify the source, include their names in your documentation.
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard , Vintage-Random House, 1988.
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob’s Room . Annotated and with an introduction by Vara Neverow, Harcourt, Inc., 2008.
If a source is listed as an edition or version of a work, include it in your citation.
The Bible . Authorized King James Version, Oxford UP, 1998.
Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2004.
If a source is part of a numbered sequence, such as a multi-volume book or journal with both volume and issue numbers, those numbers must be listed in your citation.
Dolby, Nadine. “Research in Youth Culture and Policy: Current Conditions and Future Directions.” Social Work and Society: The International Online-Only Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 2008, www.socwork.net/sws/article/view/60/362. Accessed 20 May 2009.
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria. Translated by H. E. Butler, vol. 2, Loeb-Harvard UP, 1980.
The publisher produces or distributes the source to the public. If there is more than one publisher, and they are all are relevant to your research, list them in your citation, separated by a forward slash (/).
Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922. Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Artchive, www.artchive.com/artchive/K/klee/twittering_machine.jpg.html. Accessed May 2006.
Women's Health: Problems of the Digestive System . American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2006.
Daniels, Greg and Michael Schur, creators. Parks and Recreation . Deedle-Dee Productions and Universal Media Studios, 2015.
Note : The publisher’s name need not be included in the following sources: periodicals, works published by their author or editor, websites whose titles are the same name as their publisher, websites that make works available but do not actually publish them (such as YouTube , WordPress , or JSTOR ).
The same source may have been published on more than one date, such as an online version of an original source. For example, a television series might have aired on a broadcast network on one date, but released on Netflix on a different date. When the source has more than one date, it is sufficient to use the date that is most relevant to your writing. If you’re unsure about which date to use, go with the date of the source’s original publication.
In the following example, Mutant Enemy is the primary production company, and “Hush” was released in 1999. Below is a general citation for this television episode:
“Hush.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer , created by Joss Whedon, performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar, season 4, Mutant Enemy, 1999 .
However, if you are discussing, for example, the historical context in which the episode originally aired, you should cite the full date. Because you are specifying the date of airing, you would then use WB Television Network (rather than Mutant Enemy), because it was the network (rather than the production company) that aired the episode on the date you’re citing.
“Hush.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar, season 4, episode 10, WB Television Network, 14 Dec. 1999 .
You should be as specific as possible in identifying a work’s location.
An essay in a book or an article in a journal should include page numbers.
Adiche, Chimamanda Ngozi. “On Monday of Last Week.” The Thing around Your Neck, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, pp. 74-94 .
The location of an online work should include a URL. Remove any "http://" or "https://" tag from the beginning of the URL.
Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases , vol. 6, no. 6, 2000, pp. 595-600, wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/6/00-0607_article. Accessed 8 Feb. 2009.
When citing a physical object that you experienced firsthand, identify the place of location.
Matisse, Henri. The Swimming Pool. 1952, Museum of Modern Art, New York .
The ninth edition is designed to be as streamlined as possible. The author should include any information that helps readers easily identify the source, without including unnecessary information that may be distracting. The following is a list of optional elements that can be included in a documented source at the writer’s discretion.
Date of original publication:
If a source has been published on more than one date, the writer may want to include both dates if it will provide the reader with necessary or helpful information.
Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. 1984. Perennial-Harper, 1993.
City of publication:
The seventh edition handbook required the city in which a publisher is located, but the eighth edition states that this is only necessary in particular instances, such as in a work published before 1900. Since pre-1900 works were usually associated with the city in which they were published, your documentation may substitute the city name for the publisher’s name.
Thoreau, Henry David. Excursions . Boston, 1863.
Date of access:
When you cite an online source, the MLA Handbook recommends including a date of access on which you accessed the material, since an online work may change or move at any time.
Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving. Accessed 4 May 2009.
As mentioned above, while the MLA handbook recommends including URLs when you cite online sources, you should always check with your instructor or editor and include URLs at their discretion.
A DOI, or digital object identifier, is a series of digits and letters that leads to the location of an online source. Articles in journals are often assigned DOIs to ensure that the source is locatable, even if the URL changes. If your source is listed with a DOI, use that instead of a URL.
Alonso, Alvaro, and Julio A. Camargo. "Toxicity of Nitrite to Three Species of Freshwater Invertebrates." Environmental Toxicology , vol. 21, no. 1, 3 Feb. 2006, pp. 90-94. Wiley Online Library, doi: 10.1002/tox.20155.
Although the MLA handbook is currently in its ninth edition, some information about citing in the text using the older (eighth) edition is being retained. The in-text citation is a brief reference within your text that indicates the source you consulted. It should properly attribute any ideas, paraphrases, or direct quotations to your source, and should direct readers to the entry in the Works Cited list. For the most part, an in-text citation is the author’s name and the page number (or just the page number, if the author is named in the sentence) in parentheses :
When creating in-text citations for media that has a runtime, such as a movie or podcast, include the range of hours, minutes and seconds you plan to reference. For example: (00:02:15-00:02:35).
Again, your goal is to attribute your source and provide a reference without interrupting your text. Your readers should be able to follow the flow of your argument without becoming distracted by extra information.
Entire Website
The Purdue OWL . Purdue U Writing Lab, 2019.
Individual Resources
Contributors' names. "Title of Resource." The Purdue OWL , Purdue U Writing Lab, Last edited date.
The new OWL no longer lists most pages' authors or publication dates. Thus, in most cases, citations will begin with the title of the resource, rather than the developer's name.
"MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The Purdue OWL, Purdue U Writing Lab. Accessed 18 Jun. 2018.
MLA Examples:
The global debt crisis is having a strong impact on women and children in developing nations (Bronstein 74).
Bronstein contends the global debt crisis is having a strong impact on women and children in developing nations (74).
For electronic sources that have no page number, give the paragraph number (par. 4).
Examples of how to format sources for your works cited list.
Harbord, Janet. . Cambridge: Polity, 2007. Print. |
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. . 2nd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Print. |
Shell, Marc, ed. . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. Print. |
. New York: Macmillan, 1997. Print. |
McEvoy, Dermot. "Little Books, Big Success." 30 Oct. 2006: 26-28. Print. |
Piper, Andrew. "Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything." 121.1 (2006): 124-38. Print. |
Kafka, Ben. "The Demon of Writing: Paperwork: Paperwork, Public Safety, and the Reign of Terror." (2007): 1-24. Print. |
Bordo, Susan. "The Moral Content of Nabokov's ." . Ed. Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003. 125-52. Print. |
"Japan." . 2004 ed. Print. |
Peterson, Susan. . Susan Peterson, 2002. Web. 24 Jan. 2006. *MLA style no longer requires a URL, unless the site cannot be found without the URL. |
*If your instructor requires a URL, include the URL at the end of the entry. |
Peterson, Susan. . Susan Peterson, 2002. Web. 24 Jan. 2006.
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United States. Environmental Protection Agency. . EPA, 28 Nov. 2006. Web. 24 Jan. 2007. |
. History Dept., New York U, 18 Oct. 2000. Web. 6 Jan. 2007. |
Yoon, Mina. Home page. Oak Ridge Natl. Laboratory, 28 Dec. 2006. Web. 12 Jan. 2007. |
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Shiva, Vandana. "Bioethics: A Third World Issue." . Native Web, n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2007. |
Jenson, Jill D. "It's the Information Age, so Where's the Information?" 52.3 (2004): 107-12. . Web. 2 Feb. 2005. |
Belau, Linda. “Trauma and the Material Signifier.” 11: 2 (2001): n. pag. Web. 20 Feb. 2006. |
Paulson, Steve. "Buddha on the Brain." Salon Media Group, 27 Nov. 2006. Web. 18 Jan. 2007. |
Rubin Joel. "Report Faults Charter School." . Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2005. Web. 24 Jan. 2005. |
Szeman, Imre. . Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 2004. . Web. 29 Oct. 2008. |
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Intro to creating a literature review.
Every time you conduct research, you will need to make it clear where you got your evidence from. This work of citing our sources is absolutely essential for a couple of reasons.
Congratulations to the students whose essays were selected for the 2024 edition of Writing with MLA Style! Essays were selected as examples of excellent student writing that use MLA style for citing sources. Essays have been lightly edited.
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The following essays were selected for the 2024 edition of Writing with MLA Style. The selection committee for high school submissions was composed of Lisa Karakaya, Hunter College High School; and Heather Smith, Dedham Public Schools. The selection committee for postsecondary submissions was composed of Rachel Ihara, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York; Tarshia L. Stanley, Wagner College; and Joyce MacDonald, University of Kentucky.
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“ Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder, and the Beholder Is a White Man: The 1875 Page Act, Eugenics, and Beauty Standards for Chinese Women versus American Women ”
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“Should Deaf Children Get Cochlear Implants?”
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“The Book-Object Binary: Access and Sustainability in the Academic Library”
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“Miles Apart: An Investigation into Dedicated Online Communities’ Impact on Cultural Bias”
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“The Significance of Fiction in the Debate on Dehumanizing Media Portrayals of Refugees”
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“Queering the Duchess: Exploring the Body of the Female Homosexual in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi ”
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“Banning without Bans”
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“Modern-Day US Institutions and Slavery in the Twenty-First Century”
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“‘Pero, tu no eres facil’: The Poet X as Multicultural Bildungsroman”
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“‘Coal Is in My Blood’: Public and Private Representations of Community Identity in Springhill, Nova Scotia”
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“Disrupting White Normativity in Langston Hughes’s ‘I, Too’ and Toni Morrison’s ‘Recitatif’”
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“The Vietnam War, the American War: Literature, Film, and Popular Memory”
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“A Force of Love: A Deconstructionist Reading of Characters in Dickens’s Great Expectations ”
The MLA Handbook 8th Edition provides a "universal set of guidelines" for citing sources across all format types.
These guidelines indicate that these nine major elements should be provided within the citation, whenever possible.
1. Author. 2. Title of Source. 3. Type of container, 4. Other contributors, 5. Version, 6. Number, 7. Publisher, 8. Publication date, 9. Location.
Please note: In this context, a container refers to the larger whole of what you are citing. A container might be an anthology, a periodical, a Web site, a TV program, a database, an online archive, etc.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. . Vintage, 1988. | |
Casell, Kay Ann and Uma Hiremath. . Neal-Schuman, 2004. | |
Robbins, Chandler S., et al. . Golden, 1966. | |
Kimball, Jean. "Growing Up Together: Joyce and Psychoanalysis, 1900-1922." , edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie, UP of Florida, 1999, pp. 25-45. | |
Homer. . Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996. | |
Hannah, Daniel K. "The Private Life, the Public Stage: Henry James in Recent Fiction." , vol.30, no.3, 2007, pp. 70-94. | |
Hannah, Daniel K. "The Private Life, the Public Stage: Henry James in Recent Fiction." , vol.30, no.3, 2007, pp. 70-94. , jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.uwf.edu/stable/30053134. | |
"Depression." mayo Clinic, 7 July 2014, mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/basics/ definition/con-20032977. | |
. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. | |
RotoBaller. "RotoBaller MLB: Top Fantasy Baseball Catcher Dynasty League Prospects for 2016." YouTube, commentary by Raphael Rabe,21 Mar. 2016, youtu.be/gk645_7TA6c. | |
Smith, Jane. Personal interview. 19 May 2014. |
NOTE: When formatting your works cited page, make sure your citations are double spaced with a hanging indent.
A literature review is a systematic review of the published literature on a specific topic or research question designed to analyze-- not just summarize-- scholarly writings that are related directly to your research question . That is, it represents the literature that provides background information on your topic and shows a correspondence between those writings and your research question. This guide is designed to be a general resource for those completing a literature review in their field.
Keep in mind that a literature review defines and sets the stage for your later research. While you may take the same steps in researching your literature review, your literature review is not:
A literature review is important because it:
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Please Note: These style examples are for reference only. For complete style guidance, you must consult the MLA Handbook.
Works Cited page format · The words “Works Cited” should be centered one inch from the top of the page. · There should be a running header one half inch from the top right corner (last name & page #). · Right and Left hand margins should be set at one inch. · The entire works cited page should be double spaced. Style Examples BOOK: One author: Radavich, David A. America Bound: An Epic for Our Time . Austin: Plain View, 2007. Print. Two or three authors:
Coleman, Linda S., and Robert Funk. Professional and Public Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader for Advanced Composition . Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. Print.
More than three authors – Give the first author’s name only and add et al. ("and others") for the rest. Or give all names in full in the order in which they appear on the title page.
ELECTRONIC BOOK: Ronchi, Alfredo M. eCulture: Cultural Content in the Digital Age . New York: Springer, 2009. PDF file.
PERIODICAL ARTICLE: Print:
Hanlon, Christopher. “Eloquence and Invisible Man.” College Literature 32.4 (2005): 74-98. Print.
From an Online Database:
Hanlon, Christopher. “Eloquence and Invisible Man.” College Literature 32.4 (2005): 74-98. MLA International Bibliography . Web. 11 Aug. 2009.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:
Leggin, Jessica. “Grading System Based on More Than Just Effort.” Daily Eastern News [Charleston] 2 Apr. 2009: A1+. Print.
FILM OR VIDEO:
A Place in the Sun . Dir. George Stevens. Perf. Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor. 1951. Paramount, 2001. DVD.
A WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY:
Shepherd, Reginald. “The Tendency of Dropped Objects to Fall.” American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. Ed. Cole Swensen and David St. John. New York: Norton, 2009. 380-81. Print.
ENTRY IN A WIDELY USED REFERENCE BOOK (such as a general encyclopedia)
“Nazism.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 2005 ed. Print.
ENTRY IN A SPECIALIZED REFERENCE BOOK:
Stanton, Michael N. “Hobbits.” J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment . Ed. Michael D.C. Drout. New York: Routledge, 2007. Print.
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION:
United States. Cong. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Modern Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. 109 th Cong., 2nd sess. S. Hrg. 562. Washington: GPO, 2006. Print.
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites . The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 20 Aug. 2009.
Academic Calendar 2009-2010 . Eastern Illinois University, 2009. Web. 20 Aug. 2009.
WORK PUBLISHED ON A WEBSITE:
Hylton, Jeremy, comp. “Measure for Measure.” The Complete Works of William Shakespeare . The Tech, 1993. Web. 20 Aug. 2009.
PARENTHETICAL REFERENCES: Parenthetical references in the body of your paper usually take the form of the author’s last name and a page reference. For example, the reference (Radavich 68) refers to information derived from page 68 of the book cited above. Parenthetical references must correspond to specific sources in the list of works cited.
The advice provided by the editors of the Modern Language Association Style Manual for citing generative AI tools encourages a full disclosure of how and why you used the tools whether through paraphrasing or direct quote, and to provide all relevant text generated by the tool in addition to the prompts you used to generate the text. The elements utilized to attribute your use of the tools are taken from a template of core elements which allow you to interpret how to cite new software tools like ChatGPT. For a detailed review of examples, see the link below to the "Ask the MLA" blog.
Core elements used for generative AI: author *, title of source, title of container, version, publisher, date, location (URL). *it is not recommended to include an author for text generated by AI tool.
Example: “Describe the symbolism of the green light in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald” prompt. ChatGPT , 13 Feb. version, OpenAI, 8 Mar. 2023, chat.openai.com/chat. Title of source: "Describe the symbolism..." this is the prompt used to generate text. Title of container: ChatGPT, the name of the AI tool. Version: AI tools will often have a reference to successive versions of itself, (chatGPT 3.5, etc.). These will be dated. Proper citation will indicate the version date. Publisher: Who created the tool? Date: the date that the tool was used. Location: URL of the tool. In some cases, the prompt and the text generated by it can be shared publicly, If this is the case, share the specific url. in other cases share the generic URL for the tool.
References: Modern Language Association. "How do I cite generative AI in MLA style?" Ask The MLA . March 17, 2023. MLA Style Center, September 21, 2023. https://style.mla.org/citing-generative-ai/
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Book review - no title, book review - title refers to book being reviewed, book review - title doesn't refer to book being reviewed, abbreviating months.
In your works cited list, abbreviate months as follows:
January = Jan. February = Feb. March = Mar. April = Apr. May = May June = June July = July August = Aug. September = Sept. October = Oct. November = Nov. December = Dec.
Spell out months fully in the body of your paper.
Note : For your Works Cited list, all citations should be double spaced and have a hanging indent.
A "hanging indent" means that each subsequent line after the first line of your citation should be indented by 0.5 inches.
Author's Last Name, First Name. Review of Title of Book: Subtitle if Any , by Book Author's First Name Last Name. Name of Journal , vol. Volume Number, no. Issue Number, Date of Publication, pp. First Page Number-Last Page Number. Name of Database . https://doi.org/DOI Number if Given.
Note : If the book review is from a source other than an article in the library's database, view the appropriate section on the MLA guide to determine how to cite the source after the name of the book's author.
Works Cited List Example | Khovanova, Tanya. Review of , by Edward Frenkel. , vol. 45, no. 3, May 2014, pp. 230-231. . https://doi.org/10.4169/ college.math.j.45.3.230. |
In-Text Citation Example | (Author's Last Name Page Number) Example: (Khovanova 230) |
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Review." Name of Journal , vol. Volume Number, no. Issue Number, Date of Publication, pp. First Page Number-Last Page Number. Name of Database . https://doi.org/DOI Number if Given.
Note : If the book review is from a source other than an article in the library's database, view the appropriate section on the MLA guide to determine how to cite the source.
Works Cited List Example | Grosholz, Emily R. "Book Review: by Danielle Macbeth." , vol. 7, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 263-275, . https://doi.org/10.5642/jhummath.20170120. |
In-Text Citation Example | (Author's Last Name Page Number) Example: (Grosholz 264) |
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Review." Review of Title of Book: Subtitle if Any, by Book Author's First Name Last Name . Name of Journal , vol. Volume Number, no. Issue Number, Date of Publication, pp. First Page Number-Last Page Number. Name of Database . https://doi.org/DOI Number if Given.
Works Cited List Example | Rodriques, Elias. "Lonesome for our Home." Review of " by Zora Neale Hurston , vol. 306, no. 18, 18 June 2018, pp. 35-39. . |
In-Text Citation Example | (Author's Last Name Page Number) Example: (Rodriques 35) |
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Writing a Literature Review. A literature review is a document or section of a document that collects key sources on a topic and discusses those sources in conversation with each other (also called synthesis). The lit review is an important genre in many disciplines, not just literature (i.e., the study of works of literature such as novels and ...
Steps for Conducting a Lit Review; Finding "The Literature" Organizing/Writing; APA Style This link opens in a new window; Chicago: Notes Bibliography This link opens in a new window; MLA Style This link opens in a new window; Sample Literature Reviews. Sample Lit Reviews from Communication Arts; Have an exemplary literature review? Get Help!
Examples of literature reviews. Step 1 - Search for relevant literature. Step 2 - Evaluate and select sources. Step 3 - Identify themes, debates, and gaps. Step 4 - Outline your literature review's structure. Step 5 - Write your literature review.
0 comment 4. A literature review is a critical analysis and synthesis of existing research on a particular topic. It provides an overview of the current state of knowledge, identifies gaps, and highlights key findings in the literature. 1 The purpose of a literature review is to situate your own research within the context of existing ...
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The discipline of English, as well as many other disciplines in the humanities, use MLA citation format. Below are some examples for formatting the Works Cited page. Look in the drop-down menu for examples of in-text citations. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Cholera.
This material may not be published, reproduced, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without permission. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our terms and conditions of fair use. This resource contains a sample MLA paper that adheres to the 2016 updates. To download the MLA sample paper, click this link.
Step 4: Write. Be selective. Highlight only the most important and relevant points from a source in your review. Use quotes sparingly. Short quotes can help to emphasize a point, but thorough analysis of language from each source is generally unnecessary in a literature review. Synthesize your sources.
Include References/Works Cited List. As you are writing the literature review you will mention the author names and the publication years in your text, but you will still need to compile comprehensive citations for each entry at the end of your review. Follow APA, MLA, or Chicago style guidelines, as your course requires.
Library Print Resources. Ask a library employee for help in locating these print books. MLA Handbook (9th ed.) by The Modern Language Association of America. Call Number: LB2369 .M52 2021 (Click title to see locations) ISBN: 9781603293518. Publication Date: 2021. MLA Handbook (8th ed.) by The Modern Language Association of America.
A literature review requires the same style as any other piece of academic writing. That means no contractions or colloquialisms, concise language, formal tone, and an objective perspective at all times. To distinguish between your analysis and prior scholarly work in the field, use the past tense when discussing the previous research conducted ...
A literature review is a document or section of a document that collects key sources on a topic and discusses those sources in conversation with each other (also called synthesis). The lit review is an important genre in many disciplines, not just literature (i.e., the study of works of literature such as novels and plays).
A literature review is an integrated analysis-- not just a summary-- of scholarly writings and other relevant evidence related directly to your research question.That is, it represents a synthesis of the evidence that provides background information on your topic and shows a association between the evidence and your research question.
The Purdue OWL, Purdue U Writing Lab. Accessed 18 Jun. 2018. MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (9th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations ...
MLA Examples: The global debt crisis is having a strong impact on women and children in developing nations (Bronstein 74). --OR--. Bronstein contends the global debt crisis is having a strong impact on women and children in developing nations (74). For electronic sources that have no page number, give the paragraph number (par. 4).
A literature review requires the writer to perform extensive research on published work in one's field in order to explain how one's own work fits into the larger conversation regarding a particular topic. This task requires the writer to spend time reading, managing, and conveying information; the complexity of literature reviews can make ...
Congratulations to the students whose essays were selected for the 2024 edition of Writing with MLA Style! Essays were selected as examples of excellent student writing that use MLA style for citing sources. Essays have been lightly edited. If your institution subscribes to MLA Handbook Plus, you can access annotated versions of the essays published …
MLA formatting rules. 1 The sources page is referred to as the works cited page. It appears at the end of the paper, after any endnotes. 2 The entire paper is double-spaced, including block quotations and the references on the works cited page. 3 Use block quotes for quotations that are four lines or longer.
The MLA Handbook 8th Edition provides a "universal set of guidelines" for citing sources across all format types. These guidelines indicate that these nine major elements should be provided within the citation, whenever possible. 1. Author. 2. Title of Source. 3. Type of container, 4. Other contributors, 5. Version, 6. Number, 7. Publisher, 8 ...
A literature review is a systematic review of the published literature on a specific topic or research question designed to analyze-- not just summarize-- scholarly writings that are related directly to your research question.That is, it represents the literature that provides background information on your topic and shows a correspondence between those writings and your research question.
MLA Style Examples. MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America. Call Number: LB2369 .G53 2016. ISBN: 9781603292627. Publication Date: 2016-04-01. Please Note: These style examples are for reference only. For complete style guidance, you must consult the MLA Handbook. MLA Handbook Plus This link opens in a new window.
MLA Example ; Chicago Example ; Literature Review. Gathering Sources for the Literature Review ; Organizing the Literature Review ; Writing the Literature Review ; ... Sample Literature Review. Courtesy of the Writing Center at Ashford University. Sample APA Paper. Courtesy of Purdue OWL. Literature review begins on page 3.
Works Cited List Example : Khovanova, Tanya. Review of Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, by Edward Frenkel. The College Mathematics Journal, vol. 45, no. 3, May 2014, ... view the appropriate section on the MLA guide to determine how to cite the source. Works Cited List Example : Grosholz, ...