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Hewett and Trumble/ ENG 3HPSpring 2025: MLA Citations

MLA 9

Citation Guidelines for English--For Citing Facts and Information

When gathering facts and information for any paper, project, or report, you must keep track of the reference sources you use in order to give credit to the original owner of the ideas. For each information source, you will create a citation. At the end of each project, you should make one list of all these citations that is called a Works Cited.

For English, you will use the Modern Language Association (MLA 9) Style Guide.

Here are examples by type of reference source:

 

Example for Essay as Part of Collection

A Work in an Anthology, Reference, or Collection

Works may include an essay in an edited collection or anthology, or a chapter of a book. The basic form is for this sort of citation is as follows:

Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection, edited by Editor's Name(s), Publisher, Year, Page range of entry.

Some examples:

Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One, edited by Ben Rafoth, Heinemann, 2000, pp. 24-34.

Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art: Design and Knowledge in the University and The 'Real World.'" The Education of a Graphic Designer, edited by Steven Heller, Allworth Press, 1998, pp. 13-24.

Upper School English Department

OWL

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University offers writing resources and research information and citation help for all research projects.