MLA Citation Style

Referencing or citing, is the practice of acknowledging sources of information and ideas that you have used
in an assignment or paper. Referencing information from a variety of resources clearly identifies and
distinguishes between information which comes from another source and information which is your own.
By using references appropriately, you will avoid plagiarism.

Bibliography
A Bibliography provides an alphabetical list of sources that have been used / referred for the research
paper, essay or personnel project. If the bibliography is not included one may be accused of plagiarism
(which is stealing another person’s ideas or writing).
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used citation style.

Print Sources

Book by One Author

Author’s last name, first name. Book title. City of publication: Publisher, publication date.

Book by Two or Three Authors

First author's last name, first name, and second author's first name, last name. Book Title. City of
publication: Publisher, publication date.

Book by Three or More Authors

First author's last name, first name, et al. Book Title. City of publication: Publisher, publication
date. (Note: et al. means "and others".)

Print Magazine or Newspaper Article

Author’s last name, first name. "Article Name." Magazine or Newspaper Name. Date Month
Year, pages.

Internet Text Sources

Author’s last name, first name. "Title of Page Section." Title of Complete Site. Accessed date month
year <URL>.

Regards,

Sr.Librarian- Nupur Masih

Navrachana International School