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MLA Style: Basics

This guide is meant to be a brief introduction to MLA and to provide general formatting and citation guidelines for this manual of style.

Journal Articles


Print Article by a Single Author

General Format:

AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. vol#, no. issue#, Date, pp. #-#. 

For Example:

Mikulan, Krunoslav. "Harry Potter through the Focus of Feminist Literary Theory: Examples of (Un)Founded Criticism." Journal of International Social Research, vol. 2, no. 9,  Nov. 2009, pp. 288-298.

 

 

Electronic Article by a Single Author

General Format:

AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. vol#, no. issue#, Date, pp. #-#. Database, stableURL(without the http://) or DOI.

For Example:

Mikulan, Krunoslav. "Harry Potter through the Focus of Feminist Literary Theory: Examples of (Un)Founded Criticism." Journal of International Social Research, vol. 2, no. 9,  Nov. 2009, pp. 288-298. EBSCO, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edo&AN=45126533&site=eds-live&scope=site.

 

 

Print Article by Two Authors

General Format:

AuthorLastNameA, AuthorFirstNameA, and AuthorFirstNameB AuthorLastNameB. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. vol#, no. issue#, Date, pp. #-#. 

For Example:

Lewin, Beverly A., and Perpignan, H. "Recruiting the Reader in Literary Criticism." Text & Talk, vol. 32, no. 6, Nov. 2012, pp. 751-772. 

 

 

Electronic Article by Two Authors

General Format:

AuthorLastNameA, AuthorFirstNameA, and AuthorFirstNameB AuthorLastNameB. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. vol#, no. issue#, Date, pp. #-#. Database, stableURL(without the http://) or DOI.

For Example:

Lewin, Beverly A., and Perpignan, H. "Recruiting the Reader in Literary Criticism." Text & Talk, vol. 32, no. 6, Nov. 2012, pp. 751-772. ProQuest, doi:10.1515/text-2012-0035.

 

 

Print Article by Three or More Authors

General Format:

AuthorLastNameA, Author FirstNameA, et al. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. vol#, no. issue#, Date, pp. #-#. 

For Example:

Brown, Stephen, et al. "I Can't Believe It's Not Bakhtin!: Literary Theory, Postmodern Advertising, and the Gender Agenda." Journal of Advertising, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 11-24. 

 

 

Electronic Article by Three or More Authors

General Format:

AuthorLastNameA, AuthorFirstNameA, et al. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. vol#, no. issue#, Date, pp. #-#. Database, stableURL(without the http://) or DOI.

For Example:

Brown, Stephen, et al. "I Can't Believe It's Not Bakhtin!: Literary Theory, Postmodern Advertising, and the Gender Agenda." Journal of Advertising, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 11-24. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4189097.

 

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