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Creative Non-Fiction (CRWR 3700)

MLA Style Citations

 

All of the following came from the Purdue OWL MLA Formatting and Style Guide

 

Article in a Newspaper

Last Name, First Name. "Article Title." Name of Publication, Published Date, page number.

Example: Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post, 24 May 2007, p. LZ01.

 

Anonymous Articles

"Title of the Article." Name of the Publication, Published Date, page number.

Example: "Aging; Women Expect to Care for Aging Parents but Seldom Prepare." Women's Health Weekly, 10 May 2007, p. 18.

 

An Editorial & Letter to the Editor

With an Author: Last Name, First Name. Format. "Title of the Article." Name of the Publication, Published Date, page number. 

Example: Hamer, John. Letter. American Journalism Review, Dec. 2006/Jan. 2007, p. 7.

Without an Author: "Title of the Article." Format. Name of the Publication, editionPublished Date, page number.

Example: "Of Mines and Men." Editorial. Wall Street Journal, eastern edition, 24 Oct. 2003, p. A14.

 

An Article in a Scholarly Journal

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.

Example: Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50.

 

Basic Book Format

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication, Publisher, Publication Date.

Example (one author): Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin, 1987.

Example (multiple authors): Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

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