MLA Guidelines

 

The MLA (Modern Language Association) gives specific guidelines for citing sources.  In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done in 2 ways.  When you make reference to someone else’s idea, either through paraphrasing or quoting them directly, you:

• provide the author’s name (or the title of the work) and the page (or paragraph) number of the work in a parenthetical citation
• provide full citation information for the work in your Works Cited list

 

Sites to help with the MLA guidelines

 

 

• http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/mla.html - The Writing Center, designed by the University of North Carolina,   is to introduce students to the concepts and formats of MLA citation.
  

• http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm - site by the Long Island University
  

• http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/mlastyle.html - Web page designed by the University of Georgia
  

• http://www.rih.org/library/mla.php

 

• http://www.citationmachine.net/index.php?callstyle=1&all=