ENGL 311: Literature of 17th and 18th Century Britain
MLA Citation Examples
Journal Article from a Library Database:
If there is a DOI:
Author last name, Author first name. "Article Title." Journal Title, vol. #, no. #, publication date, pp. #-#. Database Name, DOI.
Robbins, Michael. "Paul Muldoon's Covert Operations." Modern Philology, vol. 109, no. 2, 2011, pp. 266-99. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1086/663233.
If there is no DOI, then use a URL (particularly a permalink or stable URL, if one is available), and remove the beginning "http://" or "https://" from the link in your citation:
Author last name, Author first name. "Article Title." Journal Title, vol. #, no. #, publication date, pp. #-#. Database Name, URL.
Merriam, Alan P. "Music in American Culture." American Anthropologist, vol. 57, no. 6, 1955, pp. 1173-1181. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/665962.
Print Book:
Author last name, Author first name. Book title. Publisher Name, publication date.
Jans, Nick. The Last Light Breaking: Life among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos. Alaska Northwest Books, 1993.
Ebook from a Library Database:
Author last name, Author first name. Book title. Publisher Name, publication date. Database Name, URL.
Barkan, Leonard. Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures. Princeton UP, 2013. EBSCO eBooks, ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=503029&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Website:
Author. "Webpage Title." Name of Website, Publication date, URL.
"Paul Laurence Dunbar." Poetry Foundation, 2016, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/paul-laurence-dunbar.
If the author and website organization are the same, start the website citation with the title of the webpage.