HOW TO PREPARE A WORKS CITED LIST FOR MLA

ARTICLE IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL

Mowatt, D. G. “Studies toward an Interpretation of the Nibelungenlied.” Germanic Life and Letters 14 (1960-61):

257-70. [Indent five spaces, one-half inch, or one tab for each line of data after the first.]

ARTICLE IN (BI-)WEEKLY MAGAZINE

Spiegelman, Art. “Comix 101: Forms Stretched to Their Limits.” The New Yorker. 19 Apr. 1999: 76-85.

ARTICLE IN (BI-)MONTHLY MAGAZINE

Davis, Francis. “Music: Napoleon in Rags.” The Atlantic Monthly. May 1999: 108-17.

ARTICLE FROM AN ANTHOLOGY

Hopkins, Keith. “Everyday Life of the Roman Schoolboy.” Annual Editions: Western Civilizations, Volume I: The

Earliest Civilizations through the Reformation. Ed. William Hughes. 9th ed. Guilford, CT:

Dushkin-McGraw, 1997.

AN ENTIRE (SCHOLARLY) BOOK

Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New Accents. London: Methuen, 1982.

TRANSLATION (EMPHASIS ON TRANSLATION)

Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro). The Aeneid of Virgil. Ed and trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam,

1971.

TRANSLATION (EMPHASIS ON TRANSLATOR OR EDITOR)

Mandelbaum, Allen, ed. Introduction. The Aeneid of Virgil. New York: Bantam, 1971. v-xii.

REFERENCE WORK

The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Ed. M. C. Howatson. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.

ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA

Author’s last name, First. “Title of Article.” World Book Information Finder. CD-ROM. Chicago: Word Book,

1986.

FACTS ON FILE

Author’s last name, First. “Title of Article.” Title of Magazine or Newspaper. Original publication date (day

month year). Facts on File. CD-ROM. EBSCO. 1993.

MAS, NEWSBANK, SIRS WOULD ALL BE DONE IDENTICALLY TO FACTS ON FILE.

INTERNET

Author’s last name, First. “Title of Material Accessed.” Title of Database publication number (Date of material).

Name of service. Date of access (day month year). <electronic address>.

EXAMPLE

Johnson, Patricia J. “Constructions of Venus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses V.” Arethusa 29.1 (1996). Johns Hopkins

University Press. 28 Mar. 2002. <http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/arethusa/29.1johnson.html>.

Note: In parenthetical citations for online sources, you should include where possible divisions that would enable the reader to locate the material more easily (pages = pp., paragraphs = pars., section = sec.), just as you would for any print sources.