“Title of the Article or Individual Page.” Title of the Website, Name of the Publisher, date of publication, URL. Last name, First name of author (or name of creator organization). “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol. “Title of Article.” Name of periodical, Volume, Number, Year, Page numbers. SCHOLARLY JOURNALS FROM LIBRARY ONLINE DATABASE “The Death of the Artist - and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur.” The Atlantic, Jan.-Feb. “Title of Article.” Name of magazine, Date of issue, Page numbers.ĭeresiewicz, William. Last name, First name of author (if given). Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday.
Name of publisher, Year published.ĭavis, Angela Y. Ask a faculty librarian or your instructor for advice on specific situations. When in doubt, it is probably a good idea to include the documentation. This is considered common knowledge, even if you didn’t know on your own. If you mention that the World Trade Center was attacked on September 11, 2001, do you have to show where that information came from? No. One of the hardest parts of documentation is to decide how far to go in documenting your sources. “The stabilization of relations among Comanches, immigrant tribes, and Osages also made possible a restoration of direct commercial ties between eastern Comanches and Americans” (“The Comanche Trail” 60). In an article on the benefits of video games and flow state, it is argued that when players work together collaboratively, they can improve their results in the game, while also completing all required learning outcomes (Vras 117-118).įor publications with no author given, you should include the first one to two keywords from the title and the page number in parentheses. The reader can then consult the Works Cited list at the end of the paper to get the complete citation.Īccording to one study of climate change, the “speed of warming is more than ten times that at the end of an ice age, the fastest known natural sustained change on a global scale” (National Academy 9). In these instances, enclose both the author’s last name and page referred to in parentheses at the end of the sentence. You may decide not to mention the source of your information in the text of your paper. Moorland held archives, papers, collections, and virtually any book ever written by or about black people” (47).Īccording to Jamaica Kincaid in The Autobiography of My Mother, there is an alienation from an island culture that has been completely dominated by the imperialistic power of England (7). If no author is given, use the first words of the title.Īs Ta-Nehisi Coates explains, “At Howard University, one of the greatest collections of books could be found in the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. The general rule is to give a section number if it is given, which is rare otherwise, just use the author’s name.
Note: Some sources, especially those on the Web, do not give page numbers. The reader can then consult the Works Cited list at the end of the paper to get the complete citation.
If the author’s name is mentioned in your writing (this is called a “signal phrase”), you only need to put the page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence. If the reader wants more information, they can consult the Works Cited list at the end of your paper. The general rule is to briefly cite the source directly in the text of your paper. Parenthetical documentation should be integrated smoothly into the text of your paper, rather than listed separately. When writing your paper in the MLA format, parenthetical documentation is used to briefly identify the sources of information you have borrowed from.
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