SAMPLE BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS (MLA Handbook 6^th ed. )

Books

One author: Freedman, Richard. What Do Unions Do? New York: Basic, 1984.

Two authors: Berry, Jason, and Tad Jones. Up From the Cradle of Jazz .Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1969.

Multi-volume work: Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Oxford Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Owen Edwards. Vol. 8. New York: Oxford Press, 1993. 9 vols.

Anthology or Compilation: Lapate, Philtip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology. New York: Doubleday, 1987.

Article in a Reference Book; “Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1993 ed.

Periodicals:

Newspaper: Smith, John. "Budgetary Rhythms." New York Times 20 Mar. 1987, late ed.: Dl.

For more specific information see MLA Handbook 6^th ed. 5.7.5 p. 185-

Magazine: Walsh, David. "US. Japan Study Aim is Educational Reform." Science 16 Jan. 1987: 13-14.

Electronic Databases

An article from EBSCO:  Phillips, Charles. “A DAY TO REMEMBER April 22, 1889.” American History 39.1 (2004): 16-20. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. 24 May. 2004 <http://search.epnet.com>.

For more information see http://bll.epnet.com/help/ehost/Styles_of_Citation.htm

Culture Grams: "Republic of Zambia." CultureGrams World Online http://online.culturegrams.com/secure/world/world_country.php?contid=1&wmn=Africa&cid=179&cn=Zambia ,  3 Feb 2005.

Sirs: Author's name. "Title of the Article." Original Source of Article Date of original source: page numbers. Name of the Database Used. Name of the Service. Date of access <URL of service's homepage>.

Frick, Robert. "Investing in Medical Miracles." Kiplinger's Personal Finance Feb. 1999: 80-87. SIRS Researcher. ProQuest Information and Learning. 25 Feb. 2004 <http://www.sirs.com>.

For more information see http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-table-display?file=cite.html&id=SNH0043-0-2260

AccessScience Online: Yoky Matsuoka, "Humanoid robots", in AccessScience@McGraw-Hill, http://www.accessscience.com, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.YB040695, last modified: March 4, 2004.

Oxford English Dictionary Online: "Charity." OED Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/>.2 Feb 2005.

Columbia Grangers: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, " The Belfry of Bruges", The Columbia World of Poetry, www.columbiagrangers.org, 2/2/05 .

Internet:

Electronic journals include author, title of article, title of journal, volume and issue number, date of publication, number of pages. publication medium (Online), web site address (http://www……, date of access.

Alslon, Robin. "The Battle of the Books." Humanists 7.176 (10 Sept. 1993): 10 pp. OnlIne. http://www.humanist.org, 10 Oct. 1993.

Guidelines for Family Television Viewing. Urbana: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Educ., 1990. ERIC. Online. BRS. 22 Nov. 1993.

Regular web page include author, (if there is no author given begin with the title ) title of page (if there is no title use Home Page), organization responsible,. publication medium (Online), web site address (http://www……, date of access. Here are examples of the basic entry for documents from ~lnternet sites:

No Author: “City Profile: San Francisco.” CNN.com. 2002. Cable News Network. 14 May 2002 <http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/atevo/city/SanFranciscoi intro, html>.

Author: Hoftmann, Heinrich. “Struwwelpeter.” Trans. Mark Twain. Nineteenth-Century German Stories. Ed. Robert Godwin-Jones. 22 Feb. 1999.Foreign Lang. Dept., Virginia Commonwealth U. 10 Jan. 2002

Khttp://www.fln .vcu.edu/struwwel/twpete.html>.

Email: Author <author’s email address>. Subject of message [Email to recipient’s name <recipient’s email address>]. Date. Archived note if applicable.

Crouse, Maurice <mcrouse@memphis.edu>. Electronic Citation [Email to Julie Zecher <zecherj@nwc.navy.mil>]. 24 June 1999.

Other:

Personal Interview: Pei, I. M. Personal interview. 27 July 1983.

Government Document: Barenblat v. U.S. 360 U.S. 109. United States. Cong. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack. Hearings,. 79th Cong., 1st and 2nd sess. 32 vols. Washington: GPO. 1946. USConst. Art. 1. sec. 1.

Radio or Television: "Rwanda Today." Frontline. PBS 4 April 2004.