MLA 8th Edition

Examples of Sample In-text Citation Works Cited

commonly cited
sources: Material Type
Book with one author (Plath 87) Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. Harper & Row, 1971.
Book with two authors (Wilson and Schlosser 98) Wilson, Charles, and Eric Schlosser. Chew on This:
Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food.
Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Book with three or (James et al 157-162) James, Charles, et al. The Sociological History of
more authors People and Places. Magnolia Press, 2005.
Book with an editor (Edgar 188) Edgar, Kathleen, editor. UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs &
and no author Addictive Substances. Vol. 2, Thomson Gale, 2006. pp
186-193.
Electronic Book (Twain 123) Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1885,
Project Gutenberg, 20, Aug. 2016.
www.gutenberg.org/files/76/76-h/76-h.htm. Accessed 6
Dec. 2017.
Chapter/essay in a (Simon 107) Simon, Kate. "The Lives of Women During the
book or anthology Renaissance." The Renaissance, edited by Jeff Hay, vol.
4, Greenhaven Press, 2002, pp. 105-15.
Article from a (Arnold and Wiener) Arnold, James R., and Roberta Wiener.
Database "Mexican-American War." World at War:
Understanding Conflict and Society, ABC-CLIO, 2016,
worldatwar.abc-clio.com/Topics/Display/5?cid=41.
Accessed 1 Aug. 2017.
Journal/Magazine (Rusby) Rusby, Erin Banks. "Our ailing oceans." Earth Island
Article from a Journal, Autumn 2017, p. 10+. Science in Context,
Database link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A505467399/SCIC?u=sal
e11189&xid=93c33d1d. Accessed 22 Nov. 2017.
website with author (Strickland) Strickland, Ashley. “Three Giant Exoplanets Found
Orbiting Twin Stars.” CNN, 7 Sept. 2016,
Note: When including www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/health/three-exoplanets-orbit
a URL, omit the -twin-binarystars/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommende
http:// and https:// d_pool. Accessed 5 May 2017.

noted: accessed date is only put if you think

information may change overtime: example covid cases
website without author (Seahorse Facts )
“Seahorse Facts.” The Seahorse Trust, 24 Nov. 2017,
www.theseahorsetrust.org/seahorse-facts/.

Entire website/blog (Tucker) Tucker, Caitlin. Blending Learning and Technology in

the Classroom. 2016, catlintucker.com. Accessed 7 Jun
2017.
Note: When including
a URL, omit the
http:// and https://
YouTube Video (ilovetobamom, 11:34) "Dog Turns Roomba Off." YouTube, uploaded by
Note: 11:34 is the ilovetobamom, 28 Dec. 2016,
timestamp www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei5H-wd3BIU.
Photograph (Sartore) Sartore, Joel. “A spiny seahorse (Hippocampus
histrix).” National Geographic, National Geographic
Photo Ark,
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/seah
orses. Accessed 20 March 2021.
Podcast (Vogt and Goldman 11:34) Vogt, PJ, and Alex Goldman, hosts. “On the Inside.”
Note: 11:34 is the Reply All, episode 64, Gimlet, 12 May 2016,
timestamp https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/brho4v/64-on-
the-inside.
Tweet (Trump) @realDonaldTrump. "Wow, the Fake News media did
everything in its power to make Republican Healthcare
victory look as bad as possible. Far better than Ocare!"
Twitter, 5 May 2017, 4:22 p.m.,
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/860635815
277453313.
Television Show on (Coraline Coraline. Directed by Henry Selick, screenplay by
Streaming Platform 1:25:15-01:40:05) Henry Selick and Neil Gaiman, Laika, 2009. Netflix.

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