MLA Citations How to properly credit someone without plagiarizing

Why do I need to cite works? Plagiarism It is a crime to copy material with a copyright. Would you like it if someone took your paycheck? At school, you can receive a failing grade on the assignment. Colleges will fail you for the course if you plagiarize.

Citing a book of any kind Add the information in the following order: Author’s name: Last name, first name. North, John L. The title of the book. In italics if typed Underlined if hand written. The city of publication. The name of the company Followed by a colon : Date of publication. Each piece of information will have a period after it, except for the colon.

Book example Pepin, Ronald E. Literature of Satire in the Twelfth Century. London. Edwin Mellen P: Thoreau, H. D. Walden. New York. Random House: If you go to a second or third line, indent or tab for each additional line.

Newspapers, Magazines, Etc. Author’s name. Title of the article. In quotations Title of the work. Italics or underlined Year, followed by a colon 2006 : Pages End each section with a period.

Journal Example Baker, Ben. “Breaking the Ice in Turner County.” Georgia Sportsman. August 2005: Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: Remember: indent or tab for each additional line.

Electronic Sources (Web pages) Author If you can find it (Last name first) Name of Site Underlined Date posted to the web/last revised date Organization If there is one Date you went to that site Day Month Year 9 Jan 2007 Always put address in carats <>

Web Address Example Design Observer. 25 Apr Jan Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May Purdue University Writing Lab. 9 Jan Indent or tab each additional line.

Basic Style for Citations of Electronic Sources Here are some common features you should try and find before citing electronic sources in MLA style. Always include as much information as is available/applicable: Author and/or editor names Name of the database, or title of project, book, article Any version numbers available Date of version, revision, or posting Publisher information Date you accessed the material Electronic address, printed between carets ([ ]).

Web Sources Web sites (in MLA style, the "W" in Web is capitalized, and "Web site" or "Web sites" are written as two words) and Web pages are arguably the most commonly cited form of electronic resource today. Next are a variety of Web sites and pages you might need to cite.

An Entire Web Site Basic format: Author, Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site [electronic address]. It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available on one date may no longer be available later. Be sure to include the complete address for the site. Below are some examples:

Examples: Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov Purdue University. 10 May The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. 23 April 2006.

Long URLs URLs that won't fit on one line of your Works Cited list should be broken at slashes, when possible. Some Web sites have unusually long URLs that would be virtually impossible to retype; others use frames, so the URL appears the same for each page. To address this problem, either refer to a site's search URL, or provide the path to the resource from an entry page with an easier URL. See below.

Long URLs cont. (Universal Resource Locaters, aka the web address Begin the path with the word Path followed by a colon, followed by the name of each link, separated by a semicolon. For example, the Amazon.com URL for customer privacy and security information is, so we'd need to simplify the citation: Amazon.com. "Privacy and Security." 22 May Path: Help; Privacy & Security.

MLA Formatting and Style Guide The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. 23 April The above Web site gives you guidelines for MLA format as well as many other valuable resources. Once in site, go to “Most Popular Resources” on the right-hand side.