Documenting Sources
These guidelines on MLA documentation style
are the only ones available on the Internet that are authorized by the Modern
Language Association of
Documentation should
proceed in this order:
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1. Name
of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source (if available
and relevant), reversed for alphabetizing and followed by an abbreviation,
such as ed., if appropriate 2.
Title of a poem, short story, article, or similar short work within a
scholarly project, database, or periodical (in quotation marks); or title of
a posting to a discussion list or forum (taken from the subject line and put
in quotation marks), followed by the description Online posting 3. Title
of a book (underlined) 4. Name
of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant and if not
cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such as Ed. 5.
Publication information for any print version of the source 6.
Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or
personal site (underlined); or, for a professional or personal site with no
title, a description such as Home page. 7. Name
of the editor of the scholarly project or database (if available) 8.
Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal,
the volume number, issue number or other identifying number 9. Date
of electronic publication, of the latest update, or
of posting 10. For a work from a
subscription service, the name of the service and--if a library is the subscriber--the
name and city (and state abbreviation, if necessary) of the library 11. For a posting to a discussion list or
forum, the name of the list or forum 12. The
number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they
are numbered 13.
Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the Web
site 14.
Date when the researcher accessed the source 15.
Electronic address, or URL, of the source (in angle brackets); or, for a
subscription service, the URL of the service's main page (if known) or the
keyword assigned by the service |
Web Sources:
Scholarly Project On Line:
Victorian
Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry
Willett. Apr. 1997.
<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>.
Professional Web Site:
Portuguese
Language Page. U of
Periodical On Line:
Barbería, José Luis. "Un jesuita español escribió
hace 300 años una ópera en Bolivia."
El
País on the web
28 November
1999. <http://www.elpais.es/>.
Personal Web Site:
Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 May 1997
<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>.
Article in a Magazine On Line:
Landsburg, Steven E.
"Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 2 May 1997
<http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-
05-01/Economics.asp>.
Print Sources:
Book
(& Edition of Book):
Calderón de la Barca,
Pedro. El Alcalde de Zalamea.
Ed. José María Diez-Borque. Madrid: Castalia, 1976.
—-. Celos aun del aire matan. Ed. and Intro.
Matthew D. Stroud. Foreword
by Jack Sage.
1981.
Eagleton,
Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed.
Book
with more than one volume:
Domínguez Ortiz, Antonio.
Desde Carlos V a la Paz de los Pirineos, 1517-1660. Historia
de España. Vol. 4. Gen eds.
Hugh Thomas and J. H. Parry. Barcelona:
Ediciones Grijalbo, 1974.
Article
in a Journal:
Durán, Javier. "Apuntes
sobre el grotesco en tres novelas de José Revueltas." Chasqui 28.2 (1999): 89-102.
-----. "The Prison as World, the World as
Prison: Time and Space in Two Novels by José Revueltas."
Revista Monográfica 11.1 (1995): 247-57.
Article in a Book that has an Editor:
Bakewell,
Peter. "
Abrams, 1991. 65-84.