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AN ANCHORED REFERENCE LIST APPEARS BELOW THIS SAMPLE PAGE.

Works Cited
One author. Last name first, no title. Full article title in quotation marks. Journal title, underlined (or in italics). Volume and issue numbers separated by a period, no spaces. Year of publication--no month--in parentheses. Page numbers, inclusive.
A shortcut used only when the author(s) is the same as of the entry immediately before. Full article title in quotation marks. (Note that the title will determine alphabetical order of pieces by the same author.) Journal title, underlined (or in italics). Volume number only. No issue number is needed because this journal paginates continuously through each volume. Compare this to the previous entry. Year of publication--no month--in parentheses. Page numbers, inclusive...................
One author. Last name first, no title. Short story title in quotation marks. Title of anthology, underlined (or italicized). List of editors of the anthology. 'Et al.' can be used for four or more. The edition number.
................... City of publication. State (or country) is required only if omission might be confusing. (If this were New York, TX, for example.) Publisher's name. No need to include 'Publisher' or 'Company.' Year of publication. Page numbers, inclusive.....................................................................
Two authors--in this case, editors. List in order given in the book, last name first only for the first author. Note inclusion of 'eds.' Title of book, underlined (or in italics).
............... Part of the book title. City of publication. State (or country) is required only if omission might be confusing. (Note that the publisher, in this case, ensures no confusion.) Publisher's name. 'UP' is short for 'University Press.' Year of publication.
One author. Last name first, no title. Article title in quotation marks. Newspaper name, underlined (or in italics). City in brackets afterwards if not nationally-circulated...........
................ Date of publication. Note order. Months other than May, June, and July are abbreviated. Page numbers, including section designation. The '+' indicates non-sequential pages.
Name of page of professional web site. Name of sponsoring or supporting organization. MLA abbreviates 'University' as 'U' everywhere except in titles. Date posted or updated. Note the order. Full date on which the material was accessed online. Note the order.
.............. Full URL of specific page in angle brackets. Note final period.
One author. Last name first, no title. Full title of article in quotation marks. Magazine title underlined (or in italics). Month and year of publication. This is a monthly magazine. Compare format to entries for journals and for publications which appear more frequently. Page numbers, inclusive.
Name of person you interviewed. Last name first, no title. No title because this is not a publication. Specify the type of interview. (Compare to 'Ransdell' entry below.) Full date on which the conversation took place. Note the order..............................
Page author's name. Last name first, no title. Identifying (descriptive) title. Date posted or updated. Note the order. Full date on which the material was accessed online. Note the order. Full URL of the page, in angle brackets. Note the line break uses no hyphen.
... The remainder of the URL. Note the final period after the closing bracket.
First listed author's name, last name first. 'Et al.' means 'and others' and is used only for four or more authors. (You may list all authors by name.) Full article title in quotation marks. Journal title, underlined (or in italics). Volume and issue numbers separated by a period, no spaces.
............... Year of publication--no month--in parentheses. Page numbers, inclusive. Date posted on service site. Note order. Name of subscription service. Name of subscriber.
................. City of subscriber. Abbreviated state included only if needed for clarity. (Here, 'Kentucky' is obvious from the institution name.) Full date on which the article was accessed online. Note the order. <Full URL of the subscription service, in angle brackets. Note final period.........................
Name of person you interviewed. Last name first, no title. No title because this is not a publication. Specify the type of interview. (Compare to 'Huckin' entry above.) Full date on which the conversation took place. Note the order.......................................
One author. Last name first, no title. Full title of article in quotation marks. Journal title underlined (or in italics). Note that the hyphen here is actually part of the title.
................ Part of the journal title. Volume and issue numbers separated by a period, no spaces. Year of publication--no month--in parentheses. Full date on which the material was accessed online. Note the order. The full URL of the actual text, in angle brackets. Note the line break uses no hyphen.
................. The remainder of the URL. Note the final period after the closing bracket.

 
This mock-up of an MLA works cited page is intended only as an aid to students.  Some of the entries are real sources; others are fabricated in part or in whole.  The content and sequence of the material is intended as a model; while all content (including punctuation) is presented correctly, the physical spacing between elements may be inconsistent due to the nature of the web page construction.

The following items are linked to specific entries in the list above.
(The links should put the specific entry in the top left corner of your window.)
Journal article (journal paginated 
in each issue)		 Backes
Otorhino
Journal article (journal paginated 
continuously through volume)		 2nd Backes
Magazine article Hall
Online journal article--journal site Reinhardt
Online journal article--subscription service Otorhino
Newspaper article Golligher
Piece in an anthology Chopin
Book Davis and Skupiens
An edition of a book Chopin
Interview Ransdell
Huckin
Web site, professional Grammar
Web site, personal Johnson
No author given Grammar
1 author/editor Backes
2nd Backes
Chopin
Golligher
Hall
Johnson
Reinhardt
2 (or 3) authors/editors Davis and Skupiens
More than 3 authors Otorhino
2 (or more) works by the same
author(s)/editor(s)		 Backes

Refer to a class handbook for additional types of sources and elements.