Citing Your Sources MCHS - Katy ISD

CITING YOUR SOURCES (MLA Format)
In your Works Cited list, the first line of the citation is flush with the left margin and the other lines of that citation
are indented one-half inch from the left margin in a format called “hanging indention.” Double-space the entire list,
both between and within entries.
Book by One Author
Crompton, Samuel Willard. 100 Americans Who Changed History. Milwaukee: World Almanac, 2005.
Print.
Book by Two or More Authors
Broer, Lawrence R., and Gloria Holland. Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the
Female Voice. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2002. Print.
Book with an Editor
Weisser, Susan Ostrov, ed. Women and Romance: A Reader. New York: New York UP, 2001. Print.
Book by a Corporate Author
National Research Council. Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World’s Population. Washington: Natl.
Acad., 2000. Print.
Book with No Author or Editor Given
American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style. Boston: Houghton, 2005. Print.
Encyclopedia Article (World Book, Britannica, etc.)
“Japan.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 2008 ed. Print.
(For a signed article, give the name of the author at the beginning, last name first.)
A Multivolume Work
Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2 nd ed. 29 vols. New York:
Grove, 2001. Print.
Reprinted Article
Holladay, Hillary. “Narrative Space in Ann Petry’s Country Place.” Xavier Review 16.1 (1996): 21-35.
Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski and Scott Darga. Vol. 112.
Detroit: Gale, 2002. 356-62. Print.
Web Publications
Name of the author or editor of the work, title of the work, title of the overall Web site, version used, sponsor of the
site, date of publication, medium of publication (Web), date of access. Each item is followed by a period except the
publisher or sponsor, which is followed by a comma. (If you cannot find some of this information, cite what is
available.)

Tyre, Peg. “Standardized Tests in College?” Newsweek. Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2007. Web. 25 Sept. 2009.
Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. Lib. Of Cong., 8
May 2008. Web. 1 Nov. 2009.
If your teacher requires that you give the URL, give it following the date of access following this pattern:
Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. Lib. Of Cong., 8
May 2008. Web. 1 Nov. 2009. .
GENERAL RULE
Magazine article
KATY ISD LIBRARY RESOURCES (Databases)
Author. “Title of Article.” Original Source of Article Date of article: page numbers. Title of the Database.
Web. Date of access.
An article from a book
Author. “Title of Article.” Original Source of Article. Publication information. Title of the Database.
Web. Date of access.
Give the URL of the database article only if your teacher requires it. (If you give a URL, give it after the date of
access, a period, and a space. Enclose the URL in angle brackets, and follow with a period.)
Gale Group – Literature Resource Center
Champion, Laurie. "Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." The Explicator 61.4 (Summer 2003): p234. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Web. 25 Oct. 2009.
Same citation as above, but with the URL given:
Champion, Laurie. "Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." The Explicator 61.4 (Summer 2003): p234. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Web. 25 Oct. 2009. .
Zaidman, Laura M. "Harper Lee: Overview." Twentieth-Century Young Adult Writers. Ed. Laura Standley
Berger. Twentieth-Century Writers Series. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. Literature Resource
Center. Gale. Web. 25 Oct. 2009.
Gale Group – History Resource Center
"Washington Inaugurated as President, April 30, 1789." DISCovering U.S. History. Gale Research, 1997.
History Resource Center. Gale. Web. 2 Nov. 2009.
Gale Group – Biography Resource Center
"Jennifer Lopez." Contemporary Hispanic Biography. Vol. 1. Gale Group, 2002.
Biography Resource Center. Gale. Web. 2 Nov. 2009.

ABC-CLIO – World Geography
"Switzerland: Country Overview." Social Studies. 2009. ABC-CLIO. Web. 15 Nov. 2009.
ABC-CLIO – American History
"American Revolution." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2009. Web. 2 Nov. 2009.
Grolier
Pasquier, Roger F. "Owl." Encyclopedia Americana. 2009. Grolier Online. Web. 25 Nov. 2009.
SIRS
Michael McKiernan. "Out In the Cold." National Post (Ontario, Canada) 19 Mar 2009: A.3. SIRS
Researcher. Web. 25 Oct. 2009.
"The Real Pirates of the Caribbean." USA Today (Vol. 137, No. 2764) Jan 2009: 42. SIRS Renaissance.
Web. 02 Nov. 2009.
Encyclopedia Britannica
"Globe Theatre." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2009. Web. 15 June 2009.
Academic Search Complete
"Russian Federation." World Almanac & Book of Facts (2008): 821. Academic Search Complete.
EBSCO. Web. 25 Oct. 2009.
CultureGrams
"Spain." CultureGrams Online Edition. 2009. ProQuest. Web. 25 Nov. 2009.
For more detailed information on citing specific resources, consult the MLA Handbook for
Writers of Research Papers, seventh edition, published by the Modern Language Association of
America.
Revised 11/2/2009