1. Jennica Grimshaw Winter 2014 PU3
MLA Formatting
Jennica Grimshaw
Winter 2014
PU3

2. How do you write a reference?

3. The Easy Way: Websites Examples:
Editor or author. "Name of Page." Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher)*, date of resource creation**. Date of access.
Examples:
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. Accessed 23 Apr
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003,  Accessed 10 May 2006.

4. The Fun Way: Videos
Try to find as much information about the video as you can. Examples: How to dance the tango. Youtube, 12 December Web. 21 January The Usual Suspects. Dir. Bryan Singer. Perf. Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, and Benecio del Toro. Polygram, Film.

5. The Scholarly Way: Journals
Author(s)last name, first name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume. Issue (Year): pages. Medium of publication.
Example:
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): Print.
Example (Online Scholarly Journal):
Dolby, Nadine. “Research in Youth Culture and Policy: Current Conditions and Future Directions.” Social Work and Society: The International Online-Only Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 2008, Accessed 20 May 2009.

6. The Old-Fashioned Way: Books
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. Example: Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, Print. Note: If there are 2-3 authors: Grimshaw, Jennica, François Roy, and Eric Dahl. If there are 4+ authors: Grimshaw, Jennica et. al.

7. And you throw them all into a….
Works Cited Page
And you throw them all into a….
Works Cited "Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 8 May Accessed 24 May Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." New York Times. New York Times, 22 May Accessed 25 May GlobalWarming.org. Cooler Heads Coalition, Web. 24 May Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1 (2007): Print. An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore, Billy West. Paramount, DVD.
Don’t forget to list your sources in alphabetical order!

8. Now what? In-Text Citations!
Show that you have used information from a source in your work (by quoting or paraphrasing) by providing an in-text citation
After using the information or quote in your work, you must write the following:
Web: First piece of information in your works cited entry, such as the author, title, etc. (Forbes.com)
Video: Author’s last name and title (Garcia, “Herzog: a Life”)
Journal/Book: Author’s last and page number (Grimshaw 26)
The rest of the information will be found on the Works Cited Page

9. Practice
With a partner, follow the instructions on the handout to write your own Works Cited page and create in-text citations.

10. Answers
Coultée, Alexandra, Sophie Joannette, and Anita Romano. The Grammar Guide. Montreal: Pearson, Print.
‘‘Our Story.’’ Global Enrichment Foundation. Web. 23 January 2014.
Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise." Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994): Print.

11. Work Cited
The Purdue OWL. Purdue Online Writing Lab, Web. 22 January 2014.