How to Cite

The bolded red titles are probably the citation types

you will use the most.

Reminders

• What is a Works Cited page? Why do you need one?

• Every source you use MUST be documented on the Works Cited page for your paper/project.

• The citing style we are using is MLA 7th edition.

Go to www.easybib.com.• On the home-page, choose the correct option for your source. If you do not see the

one you need, click “All 59 options.”• From there, enter the information you need.

• WEB-SITE:The article title is the title of your article, NOT necessarily the title of your page.

• Look closely for the author name.• The web-site title will likely appear at the top of the page.• The publisher/sponsor is who is putting the information out there. This info usually

appears at the top of the page or the bottom of the page.• “Electronically published” means when the information was put out there. This date

usually appears under the title or at the bottom of the page.• The date accessed means the date you looked at it. Look at the bottom of your printed

page for this info. Or, choose a date from 9/17 to 9/21. That is the week we were researching in the lab.

• BEFORE you click “Create Citation,” be careful that you have entered everything correctly!

• Then, click “Create Citation” and copy and paste the information into a Word document.

Database Source

• Most databases allow you to cite on your article when you print. Check this before you enter all of them by hand into easybib.

• Go back to your article in your database. When you find your article, near the top of the page, click “Cite.”

• Choose “MLA 7th Edition,” and click “Change.”• Copy and paste the given entry into your Word

document.

Don’t forget…• CHECK your entries carefully before you turn them in.

Mrs. Brown will help you.

• Your whole entry should be double-spaced.

• Don’t forget the period at the end of entry.

• Alphabetize the entire page.

• For an Internet address, if you must begin a new line, stop after a /.

• Pay careful attention to all of the necessary punctuation. This is very important!

• If you’re not sure, ASK!

An Entire Web SiteBasic format:

Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of

institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in

copyright statements). Date you accessed the site [electronic

address].

EXAMPLE:The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The Writing Lab and OWL

at Purdue and Purdue University. 23 April 2006

<http://owl.english.purdue.edu>.

A Page on a Web SiteFor an individual page on a Web site, list the author or alias if known, followed by the

information covered above for entire Web sites. Make sure the URL points to the exact page you are referring to, or the entry or home page for a collection of pages you're referring to. See examples below.

• "Caret." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. 10 May

2006 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/

index.php?title=Caret&oldid=157510440>.

• "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. 10 May 2006

<http://www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html>.

• Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006.

Purdue University Writing Lab. 12 May 2006

<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/>.

An Article from an Electronic Subscription Service(Example: Infotrac)

When citing material accessed via an electronic subscription service (e.g., a database or online collection your library subscribes to), cite the relevant publication information as you would for a periodical (author, article title, periodical title, and volume, date, and page number information) followed by the name of the database or subscription collection, the name of the library through which you accessed the content, including the library's city and state, plus date of access. If a URL is available for the home page of the service, include it. Do not include a URL to the article itself, because it is not openly accessible.

EXAMPLE:Grabe, Mark. "Voluntary Use of Online Lecture Notes: Correlates of

Note Use and Note Use as an Alternative to Class Attendance."

Computers and Education 44 (2005): 409-21. ScienceDirect. Purdue U Lib.,

West Lafayette, IN. 28 May 2006.

An Article in a Web Magazine

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Online

Publication. Date of Publication. Date of Access

<electronic address>.

Example:Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing The Living

Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make

Websites. No. 149 (16 Aug. 2002). 4 May 2006

<http://alistapart.com/articles/writeliving>.

An Article in an Online Scholarly Journal

Online scholarly journals are treated different from online magazines. First, you must include volume and issue information, when available. Also, some electronic journals and magazines provide paragraph or page numbers; again, include them if available.

EXAMPLE:Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a

Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention."

Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 33 pars. 8 May

2006 <http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no6/wheelis.htm>.

Online Book

The first date is the original date of publication; the second date is the date of access.

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1846. 16 Mar.

1998 <www.bookrags.com/

charlottebronte/janeeyre/>.

Book

Author name. Book title. Location of publication: Publisher, year.

Tannen, Deborah. The Argument Culture:

Moving from Debate to Dialogue. New York:

Random, 1998.

Book: Two or three authors

Name the authors in the order in which they are presented on the title page. Reverse the name of only the first author.

Short, Kathy, and Lois Bridges Bird. Literature as

a Way of Knowing. York, ME: Stenhouse,

1997.

Article in a Monthly Magazine

In addition to the author, the title of the article, and the title of the magazine, list the month and the year and the page numbers in which the article appears.

Kaplan, Robert D. “History Moving North.”

Atlantic Monthly Feb. 1997: 21-24. Print.

Article in a Daily Newspaper

Knox, Richard A. “Please Don’t Dial and Drive,

Study Suggests.” Boston Globe 13 Feb. 1997:

A1.