MLA Format Exercise

 

Using your Works Cited section of your FR Writer handbook,  pp. 345-373/341-394, for examples, show how each of the following would appear on a Works Cited page.  Notice that an index/directory for this section of the handbook occurs on the divider between pages 336 & 337/328 & 330.

 

Type of Media

Information

MLA Works Cited Format

Book

San Francisco

Entering the Circle

Olga Kharitidi, M.D.

Harper Collins Publishers

1996

 

Book

in translation

New York 

The Art of Letters:  A Translation and Comparative Study

Pantheon Books

Trans.  E.R. Hughes 

1951  

Page 95

 

journal

The Astrolabe

230:1

J.D.  North

Scientific American

1974

96-106

 

News article

“Women in Combat”

Washington Post

December 6, 2006

A7

Benito Santos

 


 

online newspaper

no author

 

October 26, 2006

o12:35 a.m. EDT

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/24/ o

October 25, 2006

U.N. envoy speaks out on Darfur

 

online journal article

from a database

Ebscohost  June 9, 1997

Vol. 40, No. 6

A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing

610-617

http://links.jstor.org/feb79/crmiller
Carolyn R. Miller

College Hill Library
Journal of College English

February 1979

 

government document

Department of Human Rights and Labor

Guantanamo Bay Report on Human Rights at GITMO         Detention Camp 2003

1 May 2003

United States

 

 

 


 

website

Surveys, Reports, and Other Documents

http://www.mla.org//resources/documents

Modern Language Association

29 May 2006

6 April 2005

 

 

 

chapter in a book

1991

San Francisco

Book authors: Capra, Fritjof and David Steindl-Rast 

“Criteria for a New Paradigm” 

Belonging to the Universe:  Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality

Harper Collins

Chapter authors:  Thomas Matus, Fritjof Capra, and David Steindl-Rast 

81-144

 

 

 

Film

1976

All the president’s men

Actors:  Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam

Warner Brothers and Wildwood Enterprises

Burbank, CA

Director:  Alan J. Pakula