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MLA Example

BEFORE: The citation as seen in EBSCO's Academic Search Premier 'Results List'

HAWAII'S HATED FROGS. (cover story) By: Raloff, Janet. Science News, 1/4/2003, Vol. 163 Issue 1,
p11, 3p, 3x; (AN 8802881)

 

AFTER: The citation after translating it into MLA Style for a 'Works Cited' List

Raloff, Janet. "Hawaii's Hated Frogs." Science News 163.1 (2003): 11-13. Academic Search Premier.

spacerEBSCO. Schreiner U, William Logan Lib. 11 Feb. 2003 <http://search.ebscohost.com/>.

FOR MORE EXAMPLES, PLEASE CONSULT THE MLA Manual
Basic Parts of a Citation in MLA Format
  • Author's Last Name, First Name.
  • "Title of article."
  • Article's original source:
  • Page numbers
  • (Publication date):
  • Product (database) name.
  • Database publisher.
  • Place where the researcher visited the site.
  • Date the researcher visited the site.
  • <Electronic Address or URL of the source>. (Long URLs may be broken after a slash, if needed.)

Basic MLA Format a Parenthetical Reference in the Body of a Text

Instead of using footnotes or endnotes, the author's last name and a shortened version of the title are placed in parentheses.

Example: spacer(Raloff, 11).

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