Websites for Creating Your Bibliography
Bibliography and Citation Guide (MLA Style)
At
Parker Middle School (and Howell High School), we use the MLA (Modern
Language Association) style guide. This guide was updated in 2009. For
additional information or more detailed guidelines, please visit The OWL (from Purdue University).
Print Resources
Use the exact form as shown in these examples.
BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR
Author.
Title. City of publication: publisher, copyright date, pages used.
Example:
Steele, Heidi.
How to Use the Internet. Emeryville, CA: Ziff-Davis Press, 1996, pp. 146-149.
BOOKS WITH TWO OR MORE AUTHORS
Author (last name, first name,) and second author (first and last name). If more than two, separate by using semicolon.
Title. City of publication: publisher, copyright date, pages used.
Example:
Ingpen, Robert, and Philip Wilkinson.
A Celebration of Customs and Rituals of the World. New York: Facts On File, 1996, p.159.
BOOK WITH NO AUTHOR’S NAME GIVEN
Title. City of publication: publisher, copyright date, pages used.
Example
Chronicle of the Cinema. New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1995, pp. 123-156.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Author (last name, first name.). "Article." Magazine. Date, pages.
Example
Tomey, Ingrid. "Stepping Out on Snowshoes." Michigan Natural Resources Magazine, Dec. 1996, pp. 23-89.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Author (last name, first name.). "Headline." Newspaper name, date of issue, section number, page number, column number.
Example
Peterson, Karen S. "States Flirt With Ways to Reduce Divorce Rate." USA Today, April 10, 1997, Sec. A, p.1.
INTERVIEW
Last
name, first name of person interviewed, person’s title, and/or agency
he/she represents. Place(building, city, state) and date of interview.
Example:
Yack, Tom, Canton Township Supervisor. Interview at Canton Township Hall, MI, August 21, 1996.
Internet Searches
Use more than Google & Wikipedia!
Google
is a search engine--it is not an authority and should not be cited as
an "authority" unless your topic is search engines, etc. It points you in the direction of other databases and websites.
Wikipedia is defined as "the free encyclopedia ANYONE CAN EDIT." So by it's own definition, it is NOT an authority.
WEB PAGE
Name the author of the webpage (last name, first name, middle initial or middle name [as given]). "Article Title." Title of Webpage [publication]. Sponsoring Agency, date of publication (or date page was last modified). Web (Medium of publication). Web address (now optional). Date accessed.
Example
CNN and Reuters. "Boston Columnist Resigns Amid New Plagiarism Charges." Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. 19 August 1998. Web. 6 March 2009.
ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Example
"Einstein, Albert." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, 1999. Web. 27 Apr. 2009.
Images from the Internet
Photographer's Last Name, First. "Subject or Picture Title," Title of website. Date of access.
Example
"Map of China,"
All About China. 12 January 2009.