Notes and Bibliography Style
Sheet
Modified MLA
NOTES
Whether you paraphrase
material from a source (put the ideas into your
own words) or use the exact words of a source, you must acknowledge your
source. (Remember that if you use the exact words, you must use quotation
marks.) To acknowledge the source, instead of foot notes or end notes,
use in text notes (sometimes called "intratextual
notes" or "parenthetical notes). In this style when you need a note,
you simply put into a set of parenthesis the author's last name and the page
number from the source.
Example:
One critic dismisses
Note that if the citation (note) is at the end of the sentence, the period goes
after the parenthesis, not before.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Actually in the MLA format,
the page heading on your list of sources is Works Cited. Not Bibliography.
The sources are listed in alphabetical order of the authors' last names.
BOOKS--The
format is simple; but be certain to note the "reverse indentation"
& double spacing.
Author’s name last name
first. Title (italicized). City of
publication: Publisher, year of
publication.
For example:
Kael, Pauline. Kiss, Kiss; Bang! Bang! I Lost It at the
Movies.
Brown, 1965.
If the edition is not the
first, that information must be noted:
Halliwell, Leslie. The
Filmgoer's Companion. 6th ed.
Wang, 1977.
If you have two authors,
invert only the name of the first; if you have more than two, simply use the
first followed by et al. (a Latin abbreviation meaning "and others.")
You would use this in both the note and the Works Cited page.
If only a chapter or section of the book is used, include the title of the
section & its page span:
Johnson,
Press,1972. Pp. 163-82.
ARTICLES
"Normal" form:
Lee, Spike. "Radio Raheem: The Energizer Bunny
and Robert Mitchum." Korean
Entrepreneur 32
(Oct. 1990): 20-29.
In this form,
"32" is the volume number; "20-29" is the page span of the
article. Some periodicals will be identified by a season rather than a month:
(Fall 1990).
For a weekly periodical:
Gardener, Chauncey. "If the Roots are Deep."
The Gardener
In this form, volume
numbers are not cited; "17" is the day of the month.
For a
work found on the web that was originally printed in a periodical or book:
Cite the item as
you would if you had used the book or periodical; then add “Found at (the “resource”—Academic Search Premiere, Ebsco Host, Wilson Omnifile, or JSTOR,
for example).
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