Worksheet: MLA Citations - Theory & Practice

1. Identify each bibliographic element in the following entries:
1. “Article title” in quotation marks. Periodical name in italics. Organization name, date published. Medium. Date accessed.
2. Website name in italics. Organization name, year published. Medium. Date accessed.
3. Author’s last name, first name. “Paper Title” in quotation marks. Periodical title in italics. Volume.issue (year published) in parentheses: first page-last page. Medium.
4. Documentary title in italics. Dir[ector’s]. First name Last name. Perf[ormers’]. First name Last name, First name Last name. Distributor’s name, year published. Medium.
5. Author’s last name, first name and initial. “Article name” in quotation marks. Periodical title and volume.issue (month and year released) in parentheses: first page-last page. Database name. Date accessed.
2. Write out bibliographic (works cited) entries for each of the following sources; give an explanation for each.
1. The source is a government publication; list government, then the government body that authored it, then the type of document followed by the title of the document, then publishing body, publishing date, and medium.
   United States. Federal Maritime Commission. Rept. Hawaiian Trade Study: An Economic Analysis. Washington: GPO, 1978. Print.
2. Personal interview; List interviewee’s last name, then first name, then list type of review or review medium, then the date the interview took place.
   Montez, Mary. Personal interview. 21 June 2012.
3. For an unpublished dissertation with a quotation in the title; author’s last name, first name, then the title enclosed in double quotation marks, with the quotation enclosed in single quotation marks, then the school, the date, and the medium.
   Casawantay, M.J. “Timing in ‘Once More to the Lake’: E.B. White’s ‘Chiller.’” Yale, 1985. Print.
4. For a newspaper article; author’s last name, first name. Then article name in quotation marks. Then the periodical name in italics, with the city indicated. Then date and medium.
   Harmon, Amy. “Have Laptop, Will Track Each Blip in the Market.” New York Times 12 March 1998. Print.
5. Article in a journal: Author’s last name, first name. title in quotation marks. Journal name and volume, issue, and year: pages. Medium.
   Robbins, William G. “Triumphal Narratives and the Northern West.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 42.2 (1992): 62-68. Print.
6. Article from an online database; ame as an article in a journal, but in the medium part you list the database name, then ‘Web.’, then the date accessed.
   Robbins, William G. “Triumphal Narratives and the Northern West.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 42.2 (1992): 62-68. JSTOR. Web. 12 May 2005.
7. couldn’t find a relevant source of this type
8. The Silkroad Foundation. Silkroad Foundation, 2000. Web. 6 Feb. 2014.
9. Palmer, Carla. Personal interview. 6 Feb. 2014.