Oxford High School

Media Center Websites

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL):

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Citation Generators

KnightCite:

http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

(be sure to click on MLA Citations)

Bib Me:

http://www.bibme.org/

Easy Bib:

http://easybib.com/

Citation Machine:

http://citationmachine.net/

Multimedia Sources

Films or Movies

Title. Director. List any relevant actors/actresses

in the film/movie with Perf. in front of the

names. Film Studio or Distributor,

Year. Medium of Publication.

Television or Radio

"Title of Episode." Title of Series. Network

name. Call numbers of station,

City. Date of Broadcast.

Medium of Publication (Radio, Television,

etc.).

MLA CITATIONS

Citation

Guide

HELPFUL RESOURCES

**Always Remember to cite all your sources!

This is just a basic overview of commonly

used sources, there are other types of

sources that you will need to cite and to

learn how to format your papers. The above

websites have all the information you will

need to succeed! If you have questions ask

Miss Bolle or your Language Arts teacher.

For a Book with One Author:

Last name, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of

Publication: Publisher, Year of

Publication. Medium of Publication.

For a Book with Two or More Authors:

Lastname, Firstname, and Firstname Last

name. Title of Book. Place of Publication:

Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of

Publication.

Helpful Hints:

**Indent all rows except for the first one!

**Medium of Publication: This is if the material

was a print material or if it was found online.

MLA Citations

Electronic Sources

Websites

Editor, Author or Compiler Name (if found on web

site). Name of Website. Version Numb

ber. Name of Institution/Organization

affiliated with the site (sponsor or publish

er), Date of Resource Creation (if post

ed). Medium of Publication. Date of Ac

cess. <URL>

Example:

Perseus Project Classics Department. The Ancient

Olympics. Tufts University, 13 August 2

004. Online. 10 November

2009. <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu>

Helpful Hint:

**Not all websites will include all the information

listed for the citation, so if there is no author name

or version number, etc. just skip that part and go on

to the next item. In the example there was no ver-

sion number given on the website so that part was

skipped.

Databases

Author or Editor Name (if available). "Title of

Article." Title of Website, Project, Book,

etc. Dates, Version Number, Volume, Is

sue. Publisher Name. Date

accessed. <URL>

Periodicals

Article in a Magazine

Author (s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical

Month Year: Page Numbers. Medium of

Publication

Article in a Newspaper

Author (s). "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper

Date (Day/Month/Year): Page

Numbers. Medium of Publication.

Scholarly Journal

Author (s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal

Volume. Issue (Year): Pages. Medium of

Publication.