Basic Works Cited Entry
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Author's last name, Author's first name. "Title of the Article." Name of Publication volume, issue, date, pages, DOI/permanent URL (if electronic). |
Additional information required in citations of electronic journals:
After the page numbers, include the name of the database or website the piece comes from and the DOI or permanent URL. Also include the date the information was accessed after the medium of publication.
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Mueller, Ned. "The Teddy Bears' Picnic: Four-Year-Old Children's Personal Constructs in Relation to Behavioural Problems and to Teacher Global Concern." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, vol. 37, no. 4, 1996, pp. 381-389. |
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Bader, Christopher D. "Supernatural Support Groups: Who are the UFO Abductees and Ritual-Abuse Survivors?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 42, no. 4, 2003, pp. 669-678. www.jstor.org/stable/1387914 |
Magazines are cited differently than journal publications. See if you can spot the difference between the journal citations above and the magazine citations below.
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Davies, Paul. "Are ALIENS Among Us?" Scientific American, Dec. 2007, pp. 62-69. |
Citations from magazines for the general public, such as Scientific American, Time, Newsweek, or People, do not require volume or issue number, and the date is not placed in parentheses.
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Brandt, Andrew. "Gummi Bears Trick a Fingerprint Scanner." PC World, Aug. 2004, pp. 124-125. www.pcworld.com/article/116573/article.html?page=5 |
Inside your paper, give credit to the works you quote.
See examples of how to tell your readers where facts, paraphrases, or quotes in your paper come from at this site from the Purdue OWL: MLA 2021 In-text Citations.
Additional examples and explanations for journal or magazine citations are found in the MLA Handbook (2021), or visit the websites listed on the MLA home page.