THE MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY FORMAT
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Requirement
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Example
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| Artist. |
Botticelli, Sandro. |
| Title of image. |
The Birth of Venus. |
| Author of site or page. |
Atwater, Brian F. |
| "Site Within Home Page." |
"Reducing Earthquake
Losses Throughout the United States: Averting Surprises in the Pacific
Northwest." |
| Home Page Name . |
USGS Earthquake Information. |
| Date page was last updated. |
8 Mar. 1995. |
| University or Institution. |
Portland State University. |
| Date you found page or site |
11 Nov. 1997 |
| <http: URL>. |
<http://www.quake,wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/FactSheets/PacNW/>. |
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Works Cited written out
Artist. Title
of image. Author of site or page.
"Web Site Name." Web
page name . Date page was last updated.
University or Institution. Date you found
page or site <http: URL>.
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Examples
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| Example #1
of an internet bibliography written out
Botticelli,
Sandro. The Birth of Venus.
Atwater, Brian F. "Reducing Earthquake Losses Throughout the United
States: Averting Surprises in the Pacific Northwest." USGS Earthquake Information. 8 Mar. 1995. Portland
State University. 11 Nov. 1997 <http://www.quuake,wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/FactSheets/PacNW/>.
The Parenthetical Reference, PR, for this image,
under the image would look like this: (Botticelli).
If the artist's name is not there then you would put
the full title into the parenthesis. If there is no title you may
write the author of the site. If the author of the site is not there,
put in the full name of the site or web page, whichever comes first.
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Example #2
of an image
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In The Iliad
there is a reference that 50 men were in each Argive (Greek) ship
at Troy.
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Work Cited
Greek Ship. Unknown. "Table 2: #8."
Ships
of the Ancient Greeks. 2 May 2000. 17 Dec. 2000 <http://www.showgate.com/medea/ships/grkshp20.gif>.
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Example #3: Citation for a poem
Nesbit, E[dith]. "Marching Song." Ballads and Lyrics
of Socialism. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. London: Simon and Schuster.
1908. 21. |
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Example #4: Parenthetical reference
for text and works cited bibliography
Title VI only prohibts intentional
discrimination though it "also empowers" federal agencies
to enforce it (Grossman).
Work Cited
Grossman, Joanna. "FindLaw's Legal Commentary:
The Supreme Court's Recent Disparate Impact Case and its Implication
for Gender Equality." FindLaw
. 1994-2002. 12 Jan. 2003 <http://writ.news.findlaw.com/grossman/20010508.html>.
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Go to Plagiarism
for more examples of how to use parenthetical references
and how to cite text and images in a works cited bibliography.
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The information on MLA style found on this page can be found at:
"MLA Style: Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web."
MLA. 3 March 2000. Modern Language Association of America. 16
Ap. 2000 < http://www.mla.org/>.
The following is entirely quoted from www.mla.org:
Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web
These guidelines on MLA documentation style are the only ones
available on the Internet
that are authorized by the Modern Language Association of America.
Sources on the World Wide Web that students and scholars use in their
research include scholarly projects, reference databases, the texts of books,
articles in periodicals, and professional and personal sites. Entries in
a works-cited list for such sources contain as many items from the list
below as are relevant and available. Following this list are sample entries
for some common kinds of Web sources.
1. Name of photographer or artist, last name first with period after
first name.
2. Name of image underlined and then a period.
3. Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source
(if available and relevant), reversed for alphabetizing and followed by
an abbreviation, such as ed., if appropriate
4. Title of a poem, short story, article, or similar short work within a
scholarly project, database, or periodical (in quotation marks); or title
of a posting to a discussion list or forum (taken from the subject line
and put in quotation marks), followed by the description Online posting
5. Title of a book (underlined)
6. Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant
and if not cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such
as Ed.
7. Publication information for any print version of the source
8. Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional
or personal site (underlined); or, for a professional or personal site with
no title, a description such as Home page
9. Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database (if available)
10. Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a
journal, the volume number, issue number, or other identifying number
11. Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting
12. For a work from a subscription service, the name of the service and--if
a library is the subscriber--the name and city (and state abbreviation,
if necessary) of the library
13. For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list
or forum
14. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections,
if they are numbered
15. Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated
with the Web site
16. Date when the researcher accessed the source
17. Electronic address, or URL, of the source (in angle brackets); or,
for a subscription service, the URL of the service's main page (if known)
or the keyword assigned by the service
