Below is a list of rules and examples to follow the 2009 changes to MLA format.  Whenever possible, please adhere to the changes detailed in the form below.

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1) Medium of Publication: MLA now requires indication of medium of publication, such as Print, DVD, TV, etc.  The medium of publication will be at the very end of an entry with the exception of Internet or library database sources.  In those cases, the date of access will follow the word Web.  See examples below.

 

2) URL’s: We no longer have to provide URLs for sources found on the Internet or in library databases (unless a source would be impossible to find without one).

3) Italics: MLA now explicitly recommends italics over underlining.

4) Volume/Issue: MLA now asks for the volume and issue number for scholarly journals that are continuously paginated as well as those that begin each issue with page one.

5) Omitted Material: MLA now requires new abbreviations to be added for material from Internet sites that omit publication dates (n. d. for no date), omit publishers' names (n. p. for no publisher), and for online journals that appear only online (no print version) or on databases that do not provide pagination (n. pag. for no pagination).

Work from a Book

Lasn, Kalle.  Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Consumer Binge and Why We

Must.  New York: Quill, 1999.  Print.

Single Work from an Anthology

Schor, Juliet. “The (Even More) Overworked American.”  Take Back Your Time:

Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America.  Ed. John deGraaf.  San Francisco: Berrett Koehler, 2003.  6-11.  Print.

Multiple Works from an Anthology

Bezruchka, Stephen.  “The (Bigger) Picture of Health”  DeGraaf 84-91.

Brandt, Barbara.  “An Issue for Everybody.”  DeGraaf 12-19.

DeGraaf, John, ed.  Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in

America.  San Francisco: Berrett Koehler, 2003.  Print.

Article from a Scholarly Journal (With or Without Continuous Pagination)

Sadoff, Ira.  “Oleana Kalytiak Davis and the Retro-New.” American Poetry Review 35.4

(2006): 11-15.  Print.

Article or Story from a Weekly or Biweekly Magazine

Erdrich, Louise. “Demolition.” New Yorker 25 Dec. 2006: 70-81. Print.

Article from a Monthly or Bimonthly Magazine

Robbins, Alexandra. “Powerful Secrets.” Vanity Fair July 2004: 119+. Print.

Newspaper Article Published Online

Murphy, Kim. “British Accuse Ex-KGB Agent in Poisoning Death.” Los Angeles Times

22 May 2007.  Web.  2 Feb. 2009.

Essay Republished on a Website

Orwell, George.  “Politics and the English Language.” Shooting an Elephant and Other

Essays.  London: Secker and Warburg, 1950.  11-27.  George Orwell’s Library.  24 July 2004. Web. 30 Apr. 2008.

Guidelines: For articles found from our library databases (EBSCOhost, etc.), you will begin exactly as you would a print article.  After the page numbers of the article, you follow with the name of the database (italicized), the name of the service, the word Web, and the date you accessed the site.

Example 1: Thomason Gale

Allen, Emily. "Staging Identity: Frances Burney's Allegory of Genre." Eighteenth-

Century Studies 31 (1998):  433-51. Expanded Academic ASAP.  Gale.  Web.  17 Jan. 2009.

Example 2: EBSCOhost

Onwuemene, Michael C. "Limits of Transliteration: Nigerian Writers' Endeavors toward

a National Literary Language." PMLA 114 (1999): 1055-66.  Academic Search Premier.  EBSCOhost.  Web.  3 Feb. 2009.

Example 1: LexisNexis

Feeney, Mark. "A Generation Gently Weeps at Beatle's Passing." Boston Globe 1 Dec.

2001, third ed.: A1. Academic Universe.  LexisNexis.  Web. 10 Feb. 2009.