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RUSZMC27_0132334585.QXD 12/19/06 4:07 PM Page 292 27a 292 MLA MLA Documentation The Interpreter’s Bible. Ed. John W. Bailey, et al. 12 vols. New York: Abington, 1952. Jardine, Lisa. Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution. New York: Anchor-Random, 2000. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. “Frequently Asked Questions.” 12 June 2005. NASA. 14 Sept. 2005 . Shakespeare, William. The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston: Houghton, 1974. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. 1818. Ed. and intro. Maurice Hindle. London: Penguin, 1992. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound. 1820. LiteratureClassics.com. 15 May 2003 . Spielberg, Stephen, dir. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Warner, 2001. ---. Minority Report. Fox, 2002. Varela, Francisco J., Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge: MIT, 1991. 2 Locate referenced material as precisely as possible. Besides identifying a source, in-text notes also tell readers exactly where to find that material you are borrowing or citing. Typically, you would simply provide page numbers, but many electronic sources don’t give you that choice. The guidelines below present your options. 22.1 Locating passages in sources with standard pagination. In a parenthetical note, give the page number(s) after naming the source, separating the two with a space only. If the author or source is not named, you can just enclose the page numbers. Use whatever page-numbering scheme the source itself uses—roman numerals, letter-number combination, etc.
RUSZMC27_0132334585.QXD 12/19/06 4:07 PM Page 293 MLA In-Text Citations 27a MLA 293 SINGLE PAGE (Jones 142) You may omit the page According to Jones ...(142) reference when the source (“Blame” 21) is only one page long. RANGE OF PAGES (Dyson, Disturbing 11-13) Separate the first and last (Savlov E4-E5) pages in the range with a hyphen. NONCONSECUTIVE PAGES (151, 156, 198) Separate by a comma and (Gilbert and Gubar xxix, xxxiv) space each page where idea is referenced. PAGES IN MULTI-VOLUME SOURCES (2: 132) Insert the volume number, (Churchill 4: 3461-62) a colon, and a space before page references. 2.2 Locating passages in sources using alternative numbering schemes. Works in newer media often have numbered paragraphs or screens, rather than pages, and most classical works have traditional numbering mechanisms: chapters and sections for novels and treatises; acts and scenes for dramatic works; cantos and line numbers for poetry. Traditional numbering schemes help readers find material no matter which edition they use. SOURCES WITH NO PAGINATION (Neruda, lines 2-9) After the source identifier (USPTO, “Intellectual Property,”par. 4) (if given in the note), insert (screen 3) a comma, an abbreviation for the numbering scheme, and a reference number. LITERARY WORKS WITH PAGINATION (Eliot, Middlemarch 273; ch. 28) Follow the page reference (75-76; ch. 4, sec. 1.5) with a semicolon and (Stoppard 58-59; act 2) reference to the chapter, section, etc.
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