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Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas
Jefferson,
and the Opening of the American West. Chicago: MacMillan,
1988.
New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Moore, Harold G., and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers
Once...And
Young.
New York: Random House, 1992.
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A
book with more than two authors (et al means "and others" in Latin)
Ottoman, James, et al. Exploring Architecture. 2nd ed. New
York:
Bantam,
1997.
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A
book with one editor, but no author
Wigginton, Eliot, ed. Foxfire 5. New York: Doubleday,
1979.
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A
book with two or three editors, but no author
Tyson, James and Tom L. Gray, eds. African-American Poetry. New
York:
MacMillan, 1995. 345-58.
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A
book with no author and no editor
Primary Reference Books. 1995 ed. New York: Bowker,
1995.
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An
Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or Afterword
Brewer, Robert. Preface. The Works of James Joyce. By
Jacob
Lewis.
New York: Baker & Taylor, 1992. 1-7.
- A translated
work.
Montoya, Isabella. "Stories for Retelling." Trans. Jonathan
Wilde.
Spanish
Folklore.
San Francisco:
Harcourt, 1988. 99-102.
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Collections
or Anthologies
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A
novel or a play from a book that is a collection of several novels or
plays
Serling, Rod. Requiem for a Heavyweight. Modern American
Plays.
Ed. Robert
J. Corbinet and Mariam Balf. New York:
Scribner's, 1973.
57-89.
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A
Poem, short story, essay, or a chapter from a book that is a collection
of several authors' works
Welty, Eudora. "At the Corner Store." American Poets. Ed.
Gerald
Levin. New
York: Harcourt, 1995. 20-23.
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A
Poem, short story, essay, or a chapter from a collection of works by
one
author
Anson, Margaret. "My Mama." Poems. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
11-12.
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Encyclopedia
Articles (Print)
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An encyclopedia
article (with no
author)
"Fire Fighting." The World Book Encyclopedia. 2002 ed.
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An
encyclopedia article (with an author)
Bates, William. "Angelou, Maya." The World Book Encyclopedia.
2002
ed.
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Magazine
and Newspaper articles
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An article
from a print magazine
(not on the computer or internet)
Cain, William. "Big Business of the Nineties." Business Week.
16
Aug. 1998.
19-21.
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A newspaper article
( print version,
not Internet)
James, Noah. "The Book Everyone Loves to Hate." New York Times.
22 Jan.
1998, sec C: 12.
Quincy, James. "Glass Houses." Rev.of Big Bucks and the Movie
Business,
by Alison Hartz. Smart Reader's Magazine.
Aug. 1993:
76-80.
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An unsigned,
untitled review
Rev. of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. School Library
Journal.
Mar. 1989: 78-90.
A personal
interview
Mason, Robert. Personal Interview. 26 Jan. 1999.
Bush, George W. "Governor George W. Bush Gives First Online News
Interview."
Interview
with
Candy Crowley.
CNN.com.
Aug. 30, 2000. 18 Nov. 2002.
<http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/8/30/bush/>.
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A
Literary Criticism from a Collection of Criticisms (Gale's Twentieth
Century Literary Criticism, Contemporary Literary
Criticism,
Nineteenth
Century Literary Criticism, etc.)
Roberts, Shelia. "A Confined World: A Rereading of Pauline Smith." World
Literature Written in English. 24 (1984):
232-38. Rpt.
in Twentieth-Century
Literary Criticism. Ed. David Pope. Vol. 25. Detroit:
Gale, 1988.
399-402.
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An
essay from Critical Survey of Long Fiction
Simon, Linda. "Thornton Wilder." Critical Survey of Long Fiction.
Ed.
Frank N. McGill. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press,
1983.
2880-2888.
An
essay from Critical Survey of Poetry
Matlak, Richard E. "Percy Bysshe Shelley." Critical
Survey
of Poetry.
Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Salem
Press,
1982.
2544-2561.
An
article from Novels for Students
Wood, Michael. "Crying for Attention." New York Review of Books.
(10 June 1976): 8. Novels for Students.
Ed. Diane
Telgen. Vol. 1.
Detroit: Gale, 1997. 110-115.
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An
article from British Women Fiction Writers
Peterson, Linda H. "Harriet Martineau: Masculine Discourse,
Female
Sage." Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse.
Ed. Thais
E.
Morgan. (1990): 175-76. British Women Fiction
Writers of
the 19th Century. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia:
Chelsea
House, 1998. 175-177.
An
article from Classic (Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction,
Mystery)
Writers
Sayers, Dorothy L. "Introduction." Great Short Stories
of
Detection,
Mystery and Horror. (London: Victor
Gollancz,
1928): 17-18.
Classic Mystery Writers. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York:
Chelsea
House, 1995. 108-109.
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An
article from Dictionary of American Biography
(author's
initials are
at the end of each article--look up their names in the front of the book)
Allen, Hervey. "Poe, Edgar Allan." Dictionary of American Biography.
Ed. Dumas Malone. New York: Scribner's, 1935.
19-28.
An
article from Current Biography
"Hillerman, Tony." Current Biography Yearbook. 1992
ed. Ed.
Judith
Graham. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1992.
258-261.
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An
article from the Career Information Center books
"Respiratory Therapist." Career Information Center. New
York:
Simon & Schuster, 1996. 93-97.
- An
excerpt from a book in the Opposing Viewpoints series
Paglia, Camille. "Madonna Has Liberated American Women."
excerpted from "Madonna II: Venus of the Radio
Waves." The
Independent on Sunday Review. (July 21, 1991). Rpt.
in
Opposing Viewpoints: Women's Rights. Ed. Fred
Whitehead.
San Diego: Greenhaven, 1994. 18-28.
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An
article, chapter or section from African Americans Voices of Triumph
"Soldiers in the Shadows." African American Voices of Triumph:
Perseverance. Ed. Janet P. Cave. Alexandria,
VA: Time
Life
Books, 126-179.
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An
article from Writers for Young Adults
Goza, Elizabeth Wilder. "Anne Frank." Writers for Young Adults.
Ed. Ted Hipple. New York: Scribner's,
1997. 423-431.
An
article from British Writers
Sandison, A.G. "Rudyard Kipling." British Writers. Ed.
Ian
Scott-Kilvert. New York: Scribner's, 1997.
729-770.
An
article from Supernatural Fiction Writers
Smith, Curtis C. "Robert Louis Stevenson." Supernatural
Fiction
Writers. Ed. E. F. Bleiler. New York:
Scribner's,
1985.
307-313.
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Twaynes
Masterworks CD-ROM
"Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer." Twayne's Masterworks. CD-ROM.
McMillan Library Reference, 1996.
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Worlds
Best Poetry CD-ROM
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Raven." World's Best Poetry on CD. 2nd
ed.
CD-ROM. Roth Publishing, 1996.
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Article
from Encarta Encyclopedia CD-ROM
"Lewis Carroll." Encarta Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Microsoft,
1996.
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Article
from Discovering Biography CD-ROM
"Taft, William Howard." Discovering Biography. CD-ROM.
Gale
Research, 1996.
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Article
from Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia CD-ROM
"Rhinoceros." Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia. CD-ROM.
Applied Optical Media, 1994.
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Article
from American Indian Encyclopedia CD-ROM
"Wichita Indians." American Indian Encyclopedia. CD-ROM.
Saving Private Ryan. Dir.
Steven Spielberg.
Perf. Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon and
Tom
Sizemore.
1998. DVD. DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 1999.
NOTE: (If you are citing the
contributions
of a particular individual, begin with that person's name.)
Spielberg, Steven, dir. Saving
Private
Ryan. Perf. Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon and
Tom
Sizemore.
1998. DVD. DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 1999.
Young Frankenstein. Dir. Mel Brooks. Perf.
Gene Wilder,
Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris
Leachman, Teri
Garr, Kenneth
Mars and Madeline Kahn. 1974. Videocassette. Fox
Video,
1998.
(NOTE: The following shows how
to cite
a videocassette that does not list performers)
Elusive Giant: The Blue Whale.
Videocassette. American
Educational Services, 1997.
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Article
from Britannica Encyclopedia on the Internet
"Crichton, Michael." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.
2002. Wells High School Library,
Wells, TX. date
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<http://school.eb.com/ebi/article?eu=334739>.
Article
from Gale Discovering Collection
"Benjamin Franklin." Discovering Biography. Gale Research,
1997.
Discovering Collection.
October, 2001. Galenet. Wells High School
Library,
Wells, TX. date accessed
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/DC/>.
Magazine
or Newspaper Articles from Gale's Student Resource Center
Alter, Jonathan. “Pull the Trigger on Fingerprints.” Newsweek,
28
Oct. 2002: 41.
Student Resource
Center Gold.
Galenet. Wells High School Library, Wells, TX.
date accessed
<http://www.galenet.com/servlet/SRC/>.
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Magazine
or Newspaper Article found through Electric Library
Wooten, Bill. "Investigations of the Waco Incident." Dallas
Morning
News.
May 8, 1995:
C, 12-14.
Electric Library. Williford Memorial Library, Willeford, TX.
date
accessed
<www.elibrary.com/s/edumark/>.
Magazine
or newspaper article found using ProQuest subscription database
Leonard, Tom. "Men Reject Call for New Controls on TV
Violence."
The Daily
Telegraph.
Oct. 14, 1998: 10. ProQuest. Martin Hill High School Lib.,
Bratton,
TX.
date accessed <www.proquest.com>.
Books/texts
found on the internet
Cather, Willa. One of Ours. New York: D. Appleton, 1920. Bartleby.com:
Great Books
Online,
2000.
date accessed <www.bartleby.com/1006/>.
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Poem
found on the Internet
Blake, William. "Mad Song." Poetical Sketches. London. 1852. Representative
Poetry
Online.
Ed. I. Lancashire. 1997. University of Toronto. date
accessed
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/blake2.html.
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Internet
Web Site maintained by a university or professional organization
Einstein: Image and Impact. Aug. 1998. American
Institute
of
Physics. date accessed
<www.aip.org/history/einstein/>.
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Article
from an online magazine, newspaper, or journal's web site.
(not a subscription database).
Sklaroff, Sara. "E-mail Nation." U. S. News Online. 22 Mar.
1999.
date accessed
<www2.USNews.com/usnews/issue/990322/22emai.htm>.
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Government Publication
United States. Center for Disease Control. National Center
for Chronic
Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion. Diabetes Public Health
Resource:
FAQ About Diabetes. 29 June 2000. date accessed
<www.cdc.gov/diabetes/faqs.htm>.
Note: The above are
just a few
examples of commonly held resources. Please refer to the latest
edition
of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers for more
examples
and detailed explanations.
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