Author. Title of Source. Title of Container, Other Contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location.
Title of Source. --- Chapter Title, Article Title, Web page Title, Art work title
Title of Container --- Book, Magazine, Newspaper, or Website Title
Contributor --- Translators, Editors, etc.
Version --- edition
Number ---volume
Location --- page number(s) or URL
MLA does not require "Accessed on...." for website citation BUT the IB prefers it...so included the date you accessed on-line material
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Material Type |
In-text Citation |
Works Cited |
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Book with one author |
(Brinkley 525) |
Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. 7th ed., McGraw Hill, 2014, p. 525. |
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Book with two authors |
(Wilson and Schlosser 67) |
Wilson, Charles, and Eric Schlosser. Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. |
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Electronic book (Internet, available to everyone) |
(Wilde 83) |
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1890. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/files/174/174-h/174-h.htm. Accessed 12 Sep. 2020. |
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Book with editor(s) and no author |
(Tallett and Trim 311-21) |
Tallett, Frank and D.J.B. Trim, editors. European Warfare, 1350-1750. Cambridge UP, 2010. |
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Book with organization as author |
(National Fire Protection Association 59) |
National Fire Protection Association. Fundamentals of Firefighting Skills. 2nd ed., Jones and Bartlett, 2009. |
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Chapter/essay from a book/anthology |
(O'Brien 689) |
O'Brien, Tim. "The Things They Carried." Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, edited by Robert DiYanni, 6th ed., McGraw Hill, 2007, pp. 684-97. |
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Entry in a reference work, with an editor and no author |
("Cuba" 235) |
"Cuba." Political Handbook of the World 2014, edited by Tom Lansford, CQ Press, 2014, pp. 354-8. |
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Article from a print journal |
(Dukes 1) |
Dukes, Charlene. "Recognizing our Camelot Moment." Community College Journal, vol. 86 no. 5, Apr./May 2016, p. 1. Accessed 10 Oct. 2020. |
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Article from a scholarly journal on the Internet |
(Houtman 7-9) |
Houtman, Eveline. “Mind-Blowing: Fostering Self-Regulated Learning in Information Literacy Instruction.” Communications in Information Literacy, vol.9, no. 1, 2015, pp. 6-18. www.comminfolit.org/index.php?journal=cil&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=v9i1p6&path%5B%5D=203. Accessed 10 Sept.2020. |
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Online newspaper article (Internet, freely available) |
(Bump) |
Bump, Phillip. "Donald Trump Starts the General Election behind Hillary Clinton by a Mile." Washington Post, 4 May 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/04/donald-trump-starts-the-general-election-trailing-hillary-clinton-by-a-mile/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory. Accessed 2 Sept. 2020. |
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Video on a website |
("The H Bomb") |
"The H Bomb: Making up for Lost Time: Lost." YouTube, uploaded by ABC's Lost, 24 Nov. 2009, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueh4yEcjCp4. Accessed 24 July 2020. |
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One page of a website/one blog post |
(Meade) |
Meade, Rita. "It's Not Too Late to Advocate." Screwy Decimal, 1 June 2016, www.screwydecimal.com/2016/06/its-not-too-late-to-advocate.html. Accessed 11 June 2020. |
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Entire website/blog |
(Meade) |
Meade, Rita. Screwy Decimal. 2016, www.screwydecimal.com/. Accessed 11 June 2020. |
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(Tignor) |
Tignor, Mia. "Re: Instruction requests." Received by Angie Neely-Sardon, 5 July 2016. |
Examples taken from “MLA Style Guide, 8th Edition: Works Cited Examples.” IRSC Libraries, 6 September. 2017. Amended to include date stamp as per IB requirements.