Source: Library Call Number: Ref LB 2369 .G53 2009
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America,
2009. Print.
Double space all citations and indent the 2nd and subsequent lines.
Books:
Author(s), if known. Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Print.
No Author:
APA Concise Dictionary of Psychology. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2009. Print.
Single Author:
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. Print.
---. The Snarling Citizen: Essays. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. Print.
Hall, Clarence A., Jr. Introduction to the Geology of Southern California and its Native Plants. Berkeley: U of
California P, 2007. Print.
Single Editor:
Johnson-Davies, Denys, ed. The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction. New York: Anchor, 2006. Print.
Multiple Authors:
Amato, Paul, et al. Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007. Print.
Acceptable alternative for 4 or more authors:
Amato, Paul, Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, and Stacy J. Rogers. Alone Together: How Marriage in America is
Changing. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007. Print.
Baird-Windle, Patricia, and Eleanor J. Bader. Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism. New York: Palgrave,
2001. Print.
McQuade, Samuel C., III, James P. Colt, and Nancy B.B. Meyer. Cyber Bullying: Protecting Kids and Adults from
Online Bullies. Westport: Praeger, 2009. Print.
Multiple Editors:
Haugen, David M., and Susan Musser, eds. Genetic Engineering. Detroit: Greenhaven-Gale, 2009. Print.
Haugen, David M., Susan Musser, and Kacy Lovelace, eds. Outsourcing. Detroit: Greenhaven-Gale, 2009. Print.
Vicuña, Cecilia, and Ernesto Livon-Grosman, eds. The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual
Anthology. New York: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.
Corporate Author:
County Supervisors Association of California. California County Fact Book. Sacramento: County Supervisors
Association of California, 2003. Print.
Editions, Compilations, Translations, or Series:
Author(s), if known. Title. Editor, Compiler or Translator, if known. Specific edition. City of Publication:
Publisher, Year of Publication. Print. Series name and number, if applicable.
Bragg, Steven M. Business Ratios and Formulas: A Comprehensive Guide. 2nd ed. Hoboken: Wiley, 2007. Print.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Works. Ed. F. N. Robinson. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1957. Print.
Stein, Richard Joseph. Internet Safety. New York: H.W. Wilson, 2009. Print. The Reference Shelf 81.2.
Terranova, Antonino. Skyscrapers. Trans. Timothy Stroud. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. Print.
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain’s Satires & Burlesques. Ed. Franklin R. Rogers. Berkeley: U of California P, 1967. Print.
Multivolume Works:
If you used two or more volumes of a multivolume work:
Author, if known; otherwise, Editor, if known. Title. Editor, if relevant. Total number of volumes. City of
Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Print.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete.
Ed. William S. Baring-Gould. 2 vols. New York: C.N. Potter, 1967. Print.
Frawley, William J., ed. International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 2nd ed. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. Print.
West’s Encyclopedia of American Law. 12 vols. Minneapolis: West, 1998. Print.
If you used only one volume of a multivolume work:
Author of specific section or article, if known; otherwise, Editor, if known. Title. Editor, if relevant. Specific
volume number. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Specific start-end pages if
needed. Print.
Mote, Frederick W., and Denis Twitchett, eds. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 8. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1998. Print.
Newcomb, Horace, ed. Encyclopedia of Television. Vol. 1. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. Print.
“Tennyson, Alfred.” Poetry Criticism. Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale, 1993. Print.
Magazine Articles:
Author(s), if known. “Title of Article.” Magazine Title Date: Start-End Pages. Print.
Dixit, Jay. “Doctors’ Orders – Without Distress.” Psychology Today Jan./Feb. 2008: 60-61. Print.
Kluger, Jeffrey, and Jeffrey Ressner. “Balding, Wrinkled and Stoned.” Time 23 Jan. 2006: 54-56. Print.
Pressman, S. Rev. of Whatever Happened to Thrift?: Why Americans Don’t Save and What to Do About It, by
Ronald Wilcox. Choice Sept. 2008: 161. Print.
“Protecting the PC: Security Suites Compared.” PCWorld Aug. 2009: 52-55. Print.
Wilmoth, Janet. “Put to Task.” Fire Chief Oct. 2007: 34+. Print.
Newspaper Articles:
Author(s), if known. “Title of Article.” Newspaper Name Date, Edition: Page number(s). Print.
Belluck, Pam. “High-Risk Drug is in Spotlight in Wake of High-Profile Death.” New York Times 7 Aug. 2009,
national ed.: A1+. Print.
Carey, Kevin. “College Savings Plan: A Bad Gamble.” Chronicle of Higher Education 8 May 2009: A56. Print.
Journal Articles:
Author(s), if known. “Title of Article.” Journal Title Volume Number.Issue Number (Year of
Publication): Start-End Pages. Print.
Campos, Rodrigo. “Considerations for Studying Father Involvement in Early Childhood Among Latino Families.”
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 30.2 (2008): 133-160. Print.
Dunifon, Rachel, and Lori Kowaleski-Jones. “The Influence of Grandparents in Single-Mother Families.” Journal of
Marriage and Family 69.2 (2007): 465-481. Print.
O’Connor, Alane B., and Callista Roy. “Electric Power Plant Emissions and Public Health.” American Journal of
Nursing 108.2 (2008): 62-70. Print.
Articles from Reference Books or Anthologies:
Author(s), if known. “Title of Article.” Title of Book. Editor, if known. Edition. Specific volume number. City
of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Pages. Print. (Note simplified format below for
familiar encyclopedias and dictionaries.)
”Hack.” Def. 3a. Random House Webster’s College Dictionary. 2nd rev. and updated ed. 2001. Print.
Romrell, Lynn J. “Pregnancy.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 2009 ed. Print.
Thackrah, John Richard. “Sept. 11, 2001.” Dictionary of Terrorism. London: Routledge, 2004. Print.
For a general
(non-scholarly) article within an anthology, place the original
year of publication immediately
after the title of the article.
Gardner, Marilyn. “Joint Physical Custody is Best for Children.” 2006. Divorce. Ed. Mike Wilson. Detroit:
Greenhaven-Gale, 2009. Print.
For a
scholarly article within an anthology, include the original year
of publication only if the article has been
reprinted in (“Rpt.
In”) the anthology exactly as it appeared in the original.
“Child Abuse and Drugs.” Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco: Learning about Addictive Behavior. Ed. Rosalyn
Carson-DeWitt. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003. Print.
Chin, Ko-Lin, Jeffrey Fagan, and Robert J. Kelly. “Patterns of Chinese Gang Extortion.” Justice Quarterly
9.4 (1992): 625-646. Rpt. in Gangs and Gang Behavior. Ed. G. Larry Mays. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1997.
Print.
Dixon, Roger A. “Memory and Aging.” Encyclopedia of Psychology. Ed. Alan E. Kazdin. Vol. 5. Washington:
American Psychological Association, 2000. Print.
Lothrop, Gloria Ricci. “A Shadow on the Land: The Impact of Fascism on Los Angeles Italians.” California History
75 (Winter 1996/97): 338-353. Rpt. in Fulfilling the Promise of California: An Anthology of Essays on the
Italian American Experience in California. Ed. Gloria Ricci Lothrop. Spokane: California Italian American
Task Force and the Arthur H. Clark Company, 2000.
Rodriguez, Richard. “On the Subject of Gang Photography.” Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives. Ed.
Louis Kontos, David Brotherton and Luis Barrios. New York: Columbia UP, 2003. 255-282. Print.
Hint:
To better understand the citation formats, you can compare these
examples with the actual printed materials in the Library.
All
of the books and periodicals cited above can be found in the Rio
Hondo College Library as of August 2009.
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