Quiz: MLA Documentation

  • Due Nov 13, 2020 at 11:59pm
  • Points 25
  • Questions 9
  • Time Limit None
  • Allowed Attempts 3

Instructions

Works Cited List - Citation Format Examples

These are examples of some of the more common citations, but your citation might vary depending on the information available about your resource. 

Book

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Bantam Books, 1986.

eBook

Manning, Harriet J. Ashgate. Popular and Folk Music Series: Michael Jackson and the

     Blackface Mask. Routledge, 2016. ProQuest ebrary, site.ebrary.com/lib/honcclib/

     detail.actiondocID=10720887&p00=ashgate+popular+folk+music+series%3A+michael

     +jackson+blackface+mask. Accessed 23 June 2016.

Newspaper, print

Perez, Rob. "City Pushes to Keep Its Elevated-Rail Plan." Honolulu Advertiser,18 Jan.

     2010, pp. B1+.

Newspaper, online

Knopper, Steve. “How Hip-Hop Lost its Group Dynamic.” Wall Street Journal - Eastern

     Edition, 14 Aug. 2015, pp. D1+. Academic Search Complete, hccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu:

     2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=

     108888871&site=ehost-live. Accessed 23 June 2016.

Magazine, print

Hitchens, Christopher. "Bring the Pope to Justice." Newsweek, vol. 155, no. 18, 3 May

     2010, pp. 42-43.

Magazine, online

Samuels, Allison, et al. “Battle for the Soul of Hip-Hop.” Newsweek, vol. 136, no. 15, 9 Oct.

     2000, pp. 58-65. Academic Search Complete, hccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu:2048/login?url=

     http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspxdirect=true&db=a9h&AN=3610640&site=ehost-

     live. Accessed 23 June 2016.

Journal Article, print

Molina, Natalia. "In A Race All Their Own: The Quest to Make Mexicans Ineligible for U.S.

     Citizenship." Pacific Historical Review, vol. 79, no. 2, May 2010, pp. 167-201.

Journal Article, online

Boyer, Holly and Aimee Graham. “Hip Hop in the United States.” Reference & User

     Services Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 3, Spring 2016, pp. 215-218. Academic Search

     Complete, hccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/

     login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=114060504&site=ehost-live. Accessed 23

     June 2016.

Video, online

Rhyme Pays: Hip-Hop and the Marketing of Cool. Films Media Group, 2004. Films On

     Demand, fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102928&xtid=37478. Accessed

     23 June 2016.

Image, online

Micelotta, Frank. VH1 Hip Hop Honors - Show. 3 Oct. 2004, photograph.

     Encycloaedia Britannica ImageQuest, http://quest.eb.com/search/115_2768747/1/115

     _2768747/VH1-Hip-Hop-Honors---Show. Accessed 23 June 2016.

Website

“CDC: Zika Virus.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 11 Feb. 2016,       

         www.cdc.gov/zika/. Accessed 2 Aug. 2016.

Note about URLs:

  • remove the http:// before the URL (MLA Handbook 110)
  • remove the hyperlinks
  • include the date you accessed the source since online materials change or can be removed at any time (MLA Handbook 53)
These are examples of some of the more common citations, but your citation might vary depending on the information available about your resource. 

 

For more citation questions go to Purdue OWL MLA In-Text Citations.

For more, review our library citation help for MLA: https://libguides.santarosa.edu/mla.

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