Essay Writing | Citations
Citations… Examples Of How To Do Them Correctly.
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Lesson 10: Citations
It’s important to remember that every single piece of information you obtain from a source must be cited in your paper. This applies not only to quotes, but to every single fact you incorporate.
There are several methods, but it’s best just to choose one and remain consistent. Below are directions for doing citations in the MLA style, one of the most widely recognized formats.
Bibliography
The first step is to make a bibliography, inclusive of all works you’ve cited in your paper. What follows is a list of proper forms for various types of sources.
Book
Vendler, Helen. Poems. Poets. Poetry . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. If the book you are using is an edition other than the first, include this information (e.g. “Id ed. “) directly after the title.
Article or other work in a Journal
Sedgwick, Eve. “Symbolism and Sexuality in Faulkner.” Mississippi Quarterly 10 (1987): 69-78.
Article, chapter, excerpt, or work in an edited collection or anthology
Jonson, Ben. “Though I am Young.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature .6th ed. Ed. M.H. Abrams et al. New York: Norton, 1993. 1240-1241.
Item in a collection of the author’s work with no separate editor
Lawrence, D.H. “Tickets Please.” In Collected Stories. London: Heinemann, 1974. 314-325.
Item in a collection of the author’s work with no separate editor
Lawrence, D.H. “Tickets Please.” In Collected Stories. London: Heinemann, 1974. 314-325.
Article or interview in a magazine or newspaper
Clift, Eleanor. “Clinton’s Right Turn.” Newsweek July 1999: 55-56.
Article in an encyclopedia or other reference work
“Aardvarks.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 1975.
Review or editorial
Leys, Simon. “Balzac’s Genius and Other Paradoxes.” Rev. of Balzac: A Life, by Graham Robb. The New Republic 20 December 1994. 26-7.
Preface, introduction, forward
Lewis, C.S. Preface. Phantastes. By George MacDonald. New York: Penguin Books, 1945.
Letters or papers from an archive
Reagan, Ronald. Papers. Ronald Regan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.
Personal Letter
Sheley, Erin L. Letter to the author. 10 January 2000.
Unpublished paper or dissertation
Borelli, Jessica. “Out of the Darkness: Dreams and their Relation to Childhood Sexuality.” Diss. University of California, Berkeley, 1999.
Letter in a published collection
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. “To Alexander Pope.” 7 September 1718. Selected Letters. Ed. Robert Halsband. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1986.
Legal Case
Watson v. Dunhill Inc. 135 USPQ 88 2d Cir 1967.
Book with an author and an editor
Dante Alighieri. The Inferno. Ed. Robert Pinsky. Boston: Boston University Press, 1996.
Book in several volumes
Keats, John. Collected Poems. Plays, and. Letters. 2 vols. Ed Jon Stallworthy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Books in a series
Peterson, Margaret Wallace Stevens and the Idealist Tradition. Studies in Modern Literature 24. Ann Arbor: Umi Research Press, t983.
Reprinted Book
Douglas, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. 1857. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.
Translated Book
Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Trans. Walter Kaufman. New York: Vintage, 1974.86.
