Websites
This identifying code is missing from the example citation: Shiva, Vandana. "Bioethics: A Third World Issue." Native Web, 2 Dec. 2015
What is The URL?
Citations on your citations page should be listed according to this:
What is Alphabetical Order?
In a citation for an online source with no author, this will be the first element of your citation instead of the author's name:
What is the Title of the Source?
In-text citations should go at the end of every sentence that includes these three (3) kinds of information from outside sources:
What are summary, paraphrase, or quotation?
At the end of your academic papers, the page containing all of your full citations is called this:
What is Works Cited?
In a citation for an online source, this should be in quotation marks:
What is the Page Title?
This Latin phrase means “and others." You would use this phrase when a source has more than two authors:
What is "et al."?
Example: "Smith et al. (2006)"
If a source has no known author, you may use this instead of the author's name in your in-text citations:
What is A Shortened Title of the Work?
When referencing the same author more than once in a row, you do not have to include this after the first in-text citation.
What is the author's name?
The upper right-hand corner of your header should include these elements:
What is your name and the page number?
In a citation for an online source, this should be in italics:
What is the Title of the Website?
Shortened to "vol." and "no.," these elements are included in citations for scholarly articles:
What are Volume and Issue Number?
In a citation for a social media post, you would include this instead of the author's name:
What is the Username?
In a citation for a source that appears in a larger collection, (such as an essay in an anthology,) you should credit this person:
Who is The Author of the Internal Source?
This is the standard font and font size for papers written in MLA style:
What is 12 pt. Times New Roman?
In a citation for an online source without a publish date, this should be used instead:
What is the Access Date?
Example: "Bioethics: A Third World Issue." Native Web, https://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html. Accessed 24 Feb. 2018.
In addition to the journal/publication title, you also put this element in italics in a citation for a scholarly source:
What is the Database Name?
In a citation for an interview, the first element of your citation should be this person's last name:
Who is The Interviewee?
This goes between 2 or more sources in one citation:
What is a semi-colon?
;
The indentation format that you use for MLA citations is called this:
What is a Hanging Indent?
In an in-text citation for an online source, this element does not need to be included:
What is a Page Number?
In a citation for a scholarly source, such as an academic journal article, you would include this at the end of your citation instead of a URL:
What is a DOI?
(Digital Object Identifier)
In a citation for a source found in a collection or anthology, you would include this person's name in addition to the author's name:
Who is The Editor?
Example: Dewar, James. "The Cultural Consequences of Printing and the Internet." Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, edited by Sabrina Alcorn, University of Massachusetts Press, 2017, pp 365-77.
This information goes inside a standard citation for a video:
What is the author/performer name and the time stamp?
The header at the beginning of your paper in MLA style should contain your name, the name of your class, the date, and this:
What is Your Professor's Name?