Citation Examples for “Works Cited” List: Articles (from print publications)
At the end of your paper, you must provide an alphabetical listing of all the works you have cited in your paper. This requirement includes both work you have actually quoted and work you have summarized or paraphrased. The information is arranged alphabetically according to the author's last name or (when there is no author identified) by title.
Elements:
For scholarly articles
Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of the Article." Title of the Periodical. Volume Number.Issue Number (Date Published): Pages on which the article appears. Medium of Publication [Print].
For other articles:
Author's Last Name, Author's First name. "Title of the Article."" Title of the Periodical. Date Published: Pages on which the article appears. Medium of Publication [Print].
Article in a scholarly journal (MLA Handbook, 5.4.2)
Bulliet, Richard W. "Twenty Years of Islamic Politics." Middle East Journal 53.2 (1999): 189-200. Print.
Article in a magazine (MLA Handbook, 5.4.6)
Silverstein, Ken. "Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor: Research Money Goes to Profitable Lifestyle Drugs." Nation 19 July 1999: 13-19. Print.
Article in a newspaper (MLA Handbook, 6.5.5)
Article with no author (MLA Handbook, 5.4.9)
"The Decade of the Spy." Newsweek 7 Mar. 1994: 26-27. Print..
Book review (MLA Handbook, 5.4.7)
Truax, Alice. "Anywhere but Here: A Satisfying Novel about Unsatisfactory Lives." Rev. of Amy and Isabelle, by Elizabeth Strout. New Yorker 8 Feb. 1999: 79-80. Print.
Chapter in an edited book or work in an anthology (MLA Handbook, 5.5.6)
Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening."
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English. 2nd ed. Comp. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. New York: Norton, 1996. 1011-101. Print.
Hatt, Beth. "Growing Up as Poor, White Trash: Stories of Where I Come From." Late to Class: Social Class and Schooling in the New Economy. Ed. Jane A. Van Galen and George W. Noblit. Albany: State U of New York P, 2007. 19-28. Print.
Excerpt from a book, reprinted in an anthology (MLA Handbook, 5.5.6)
West, Ray B. "Atmosphere and Theme in Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'." William Faulkner: Four Decades of Criticism. Ed. Linda Welshimer Wagner. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1973. 192-98. Excerpt in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Laurie Lanzen Harris and Sheila Fitzgerald. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 148-51. Print.
Excerpt from an article, reprinted in an anthology (MLA Handbook, 5.5.6)
Doody, Terrence. "Hemingway's Style and Jake's Narration." Journal of Narrative Technique 4.3 (1974): 212-25. Excerpt in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz. Vol. 61. Detroit: Gale, 1990. 204-208. Print.
Signed article in an encyclopedia (MLA Handbook, 5.5.7)
Cleland, Hugh G. "Child Labor." The Encyclopedia Americana. 1998 ed. Print.
Unsigned article in an encyclopedia or reference book(MLA Handbook, 5.5.7)
"Highway Speed Limits, by State." The World Almanac and Book of Facts. 2008 ed. Print.
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