Examples for Common Information Sources (using MLA 9 th

ed.)

BOOKS
General One author Entire book:
Format Author Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Article in a book:
Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection, edited by Editor's Name(s),
Publisher, Year, Page range of entry.

More than
one author Last name, First name, and First and Last name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Examples: Desonie, Dana. Atmosphere: Air Pollution and Its Effects. Chelsea House, 2007.

Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists
Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.
Bloomsbury, 2010.
ARTICLES from ONLINE DATABASE
General Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article/Page." Name of magazine, date or vol.
Format no. Name of Database, URL or DOI. Date of Access.
Example: Liepert, Beate G., and Alessandra Giannini. "Global Warming, the Atmospheric Brown
Cloud, and the changing Indian Summer Monsoon." Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, vol. 71, no. 4, July 2015. Explora, doi:1177/0096340215590802.
Accessed 16 Dec. 2016.

WEBSITES
General Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article/Page." Name of Website, Publisher,
Format Date of Publication, URL. Date of Access.
Examples: McGrath, Jane. "How the Ozone Layer Works." How Stuff Works Science, 2016,
science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/ozone-layer.htm.
Accessed 16 Dec. 2016.

If no author, start with the webpage title.

"Science: Ozone Basics." Stratospheric Ozone: Monitoring and Research in NOAA,
NOAA, 20 Mar. 2008, www.ozonelayer.noaa.gov/science/basics.htm. Accessed
16 Dec. 2016.

ONLINE VIDEO CLIP

General "Title of Video." Name of Website, uploaded by Name, Publisher, Date of Publication,
Format URL. Date of access.
Example: "Ukulele Weeps.” Youtube, uploaded by Jake Shimabukuro, 22 Apr. 2006,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k. Accessed 9 Sept. 2012.

INTERVIEWS
General Interview you conducted:
Format Interviewee. Personal interview. Date of Interview.
Interview conducted by someone else:
Interviewee. Telephone interview. By Interviewer. Date.
Examples: Hopkins, Tom. Personal interview. 14 Feb. 2011.

Suzuki, David. Interview. by George Stroumboulopoulos. 17 Nov. 2010.

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E-Books
General Author Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. E-book ed., Publisher, Year. Name of The
Format Platform.
Examples: Palacio, R. J. Wonder. E-book ed., Penguin, 2017. Sora.

MLA Handbook. 9th ed., e-book ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2021.

Organizing MLA References – The Works Cited

The Works Cited is a list of sources used in researching an essay or project. Even if you put the
information into your own words, you must cite all your sources.

This guide will provide you with instructions as well as the most common examples of MLA style
citations. There is a sample Works Cited at the end. MLA style is the most commonly used style
at Robert College although senior level science classes may use APA.

The easiest way for you to create your Works Cited is by using NoodleTools a Google App for
Education. More information about NoodleTools can be found on the Citation Help page of the
library webpage.
The basic rules for creating MLA references are:
• Begin your Works Cited on a separate page at the end of your research paper. It should have the
same formatting (e.g. fonts, margins), as the rest of your paper. Label the page Works Cited (do
not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in “quotation marks”) and center the words Works
Cited at the top of the page.
• Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.
• Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent. (In
Word, go to Format, Paragraph, then under Indentation, use the drop-down menu to select
“hanging”, click OK. In Google Docs use the indent key.)

• Type authors’ names with the last name first, separated by a comma followed by the first name.

• Capitalize all significant words in titles of books, journals and articles. Do not capitalize words like
and, but, or, etc.

• Use italics for the titles of books, periodicals, websites, television and radio shows.

• Use quotation marks around the titles of articles in journals, guide words in dictionaries and
encyclopedias and pages on websites.

• Provide URLs (webpage addresses) for Web entries.

• Arrange the references in alphabetical order by the author’s last name or, if there is no author, by
the first main word of the title. Ignore A, And, and The in a title.

• For more information on citing and referencing other information sources, go to the OWL at
Purdue or use NoodleTools.

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 Works Cited

“NoodleTools : MLA, APA, Chicago Bibliography Composer.” NoodleTools, 2015,

http://www.noodletools.com/. Accessed 05 Dec. 2016

Russell, Tony, et al. “MLA Formation and Style Guide.” The Purdue OWL. Purdue U

Writing Lab, 02 Aug. 2016, https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/.

Accessed 05 Dec. 2016

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