In 2016, the Modern Language Association (MLA) updated their style guide. The new edition gives general guidelines to use when citing sources. Available information should be included in your citation in the following order.
1.	 Author.
2.	 Title of source. 
3.	 Title of container(s),
4.	 Other contributors,
5.	 Version,
6.	 Number,
7.	 Publisher,
8.	 Publication date,
9.	 Location, URL, or DOI.
     10. Accessed. (date, optional)
	Helpful links:
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Easy Bib
MLA Practice Template(MLA Style Center)  
Works Cited: A Quick Guide (MLA Style Center)
Citing Drama, Monmouth University	

●	Each element should be followed by the punctuation mark shown. 
●	Any information that is not available should be omitted.

Titles must be either italicized or contained within quotation marks.  

★	Quotation marks  - Put quotation marks around parts of sources such as journal articles, television episodes, book chapters, and web pages.

★	Italics - Italicize titles of entire works such as books, websites, databases, journals and music albums.	

Some Common Sources and Their Containers
Source	Container 1	Container 2	
Book	Database		
Book chapter	Book	Website or Database	
Poem 	Book, website or database	Website or Database	
Web page	Website		
Online Video	Website or App		
Magazine article	Magazine	Database	
Journal article	Journal	Database	
Art work	Museum	Museum website	
TV Episode	TV Series	Content Provider (such as Netflix, Apple, or CBS)	

Selected Examples

Book with One Author:
Long, John. Darwin’s Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the 
	Future of Technology, Basic Books, 2012.
Book with Two Authors:
Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson. Peter and the Starcatchers. Hyperion, 2004.

Books with Three or More Authors:
Behringer, Richard, et al. Manipulating the Mouse Embryo: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor 
Laboratory, 2014.

Corporate Author
Cite using the same format as for a personal author. If the corporate author and publisher are the same, omit the corporate author at the beginning of the citation.

Periodical Article in print format
Miller, Kenneth. “Checkmate.” Discover, Nov. 2016, pp. 46-51.

Periodical Article found in a database 
Databases usually provide a citation with the article.  It is your responsibility to check it for accuracy and edit it accordingly.  Note that the URL has been omitted for simplicity.

Marchant, Jo. “Spring Comes to Ancient Egypt.” Nature, vol. 479, no. 7374, 24 Nov. 2011. Research in 
Context, Accessed 8 Nov. 2016.
Web page:
“Position Statements on Exotic Animals as Pets.” ASPCA, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 2016, http://www.aspca.org/about-us/position-statements-exotic-animals-pets.
Tweet:
@NASAGoddard. “NASA is About to Launch Six New Next-Generation Earth-Observing Small Satellites — Some as Small as a Loaf of Bread: http://go.nasa.gov/2eGD73n.” Twitter, 7 November 2016, 6:00 p.m., https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard/status/795808063034781696.

Formatting Guidelines for a Works Cited Page

★	Construct the list of works cited on a separate page at the end of your paper.
★	Center the heading, Works Cited, at the top of the page.
★	Double-space the entire list, with no additional spaces between citations.
★	Alphabetize the citations by first entry, ignoring first words such as the, a, and an.
★	Start the citation at the margin and indent the second and all subsequent lines in that citation.  
This is called a hanging indent.

Adapted from:	MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition 
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