MLA 8th Edition A quick overview

The MLA core elements are as follows: Author Number Title of source Publisher Title of container Publication date Other contributors Location Version

Changes-books Seventh edition (the old way): Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. Print. This version includes the city of publication (Oxford) and the medium (print), which the new eighth edition does not require. Eighth edition (the new way): Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford UP, 2011. In this version, only the most essential information is included (author’s name, book title, publisher, and date). Note that the city of publication is not needed, and the medium of publication is eliminated.

Changes – Article in a journal Seventh edition: (old way) Kinkaid, Jamaica. “In History.” Callaloo 24.2 (Spring 2001): 620-26. Web. This version includes the volume and number (24.2), and page numbers (620-26) of the journal, but does not explain those references. The seventh edition emphasized following a strict punctuation formula, such as parentheses around the date and the colon, while the new eighth edition focuses on providing this information in a more streamlined manner by using only commas to separate each component. Eighth edition: (new way) Kincaid, Jamaica. “In History.” Callaloo, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 620-26. This version identifies the volume (24), the number (2), and the page numbers (620-26) of the scholarly journal, rather than leaving those numbers without clear explanation. This helps readers best make sense of your citation and allows them to locate your source without getting bogged down with extra information or references that can be difficult to decipher. Also note that punctuation is simple; only commas separate the journal title, volume, number, date, and page numbers.

Important Note on the Use of URLs in MLA MLA no longer requires the use of URLs in MLA citations. Because Web addresses are not static (i.e., they change often) and because documents sometimes appear in multiple places on the Web (e.g., on multiple databases), MLA explains that most readers can find electronic sources via title or author searches in Internet Search Engines. IBO MANDATES URL/DOI AND ACCESS DATE! For instructors or editors who still wish to require the use of URLs, MLA suggests that the URL appear starting with www. Break URLs only after slashes. Accessed date. Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. www.classics.mit.edu/. Accessed 5 Apr. 2017.

No page number: use url Works Cited: Online periodical where page numbers are not given “The Time is Now.” Persuasions, vol. 35, no. 1, 2014, www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol35no1/byrd.html. Accessed on May 12, 2014. Simply omit page numbers and give the URL after the publication date.

Links to other examples – owl Purdue MLA Works Cited: Electronic Sources (Web Publications) MLA Works Cited: Other Common Sources MLA documentation for tables, figures, and examples Captions: images and citations

In text citation You may use parenthetical in text citation (Smith 42) or footnote1 Use of footnotes is for references – not for information Similar to works cited information BUT with slight changes DO NOT copy/paste

________________________________         In reference to Freak Shows at circuses, Rothenberg makes the observation that people who possess uncommon features and who willingly go out in public to display such oddities to onlookers are acting as "modern-day taboo breakers" by crossing the "final boundary between societal acceptance and ostracism."5         In traditional British East Africa, between the time of puberty and marriage, a young Akamba girl must maintain an avoidance relationship with her own father.6 Looking at taboo in a modern society, Marvin Harris gives an interesting example of the application of cultural materialism to the Hindu taboo against eating beef.7   ________________________________          5 Kelly Rothenberg, "Tattooed People as Taboo Figures in Modern Society," 1996,  BME/Psyber City, 18 Jan. 2005 <http://bme.freeq.com/tatoo/tattab.html>.          6 Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo (New York: Random, 1918) 17.          7 Marvin Harris, "The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle," Current Anthropology 1992, 7:51-66, qtd. in Stacy McGrath, "Ecological Anthropology," Anthropological Theories: A Guide Prepared by Students for Students 19 Oct. 2001, U. of Alabama, 18 Jan. 2005 <http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/Murphy/ecologic.htm>.

MLA Caption Style (In text) When citing an image, the caption should be labeled as Figure (usually abbreviated Fig.), assigned an Arabic numeral, and given a title or caption.  For photos of artwork, include the book's publication information of the text in which the image appears.  A label and title or caption ordinarily appear directly below the illustration and have the same one-inch margins as the text of the paper.  Captions should be numbered consecutively Fig. 1. Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child, Wichita Art Museum. Illus. in Novelene Ross, Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Collection of American Art (Wichita, Kansas: Wichita Art Museum, 1997) 107.

Links to refer Another- UMUC site Another – Knightcite and Bibme.org

Works cited "Images: Captions and Citations." Rhode Island School of Design. Rhode Island School of Design, 8 Dec. 2015. http://risd.libguides.com/citingimages. Accessed 9 May 2016. Laguna College of Art and Design. Laguna College of Art and Design, 2013. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome- instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#. Accessed 9 May 2016. Purdue Online Writing Lab. Purdue University, 2016. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/11/. Accessed 9 May 2016.