MLA Bibliography Format

Purpose of the Annotation

• Describe the content of the source• Describe the usefulness of the

source• Describe the intended audience• Evaluate the credibility of the source• Discuss the writer’s background

BOOKS

1) Basic form of a book with an author

Sidel, Ruth. On Her Own: Growing Up in

the Shadows of the American

Dream. New York: Penguin, 1990.

Last name

First name

Comma Period

Title: underlined & capitalized

Period Colon Comma

PublisherYear of Publication

Place of Publication

Indent: five spaces

2) A Book with Two or More Authors

• Use the authors’ names in the order they appear in the book.

• Separate the names with commas.• Reverse the order of only the first author’s names.

Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.

Second author’s name, not reversed

3) Books with FOUR OR MORE Authors

Either list all the names or use the first author’s name followed by “et al.”

Bootzin, Richard R., et al. Psychology Today: An Introduction. New York: Random, 1986.

4) Books with Editor or Editors

Use abbreviation “ed.” or “eds.” preceded by a comma, after the name(s) of the editor(s).

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. Classic Slave Narrative. New York: NAL, 1987.

WITH FOUR OR MORE EDITORS, use only the name of the first editor followed by a comma and “et al.”

5) Book with No Author

List and alphabetize by the title of the book.

The Chicago Manual of Style. 14th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

INTERNET

Include as much of the following information as possible:

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Web Site or Home Page. Date of Access <Electronic Address>.

Kroloff, Charles A. "54 Ways You Can

Help the Homeless." Earthsystems.org

Home Page. 26 Mar. 2001

<http://www.earthsystems.org/ways>

Last name

First name

Title of the article

Title of web site

Date of Access

Electronic address

PERIODICALS

Author's Last Name, First Name (if given). "Title of Article." Title of Magazine Publication Date: Page(s).

ARTICLE WITH AUTHOR'S NAME

Charles, N. "The Will to Win." People

Weekly 28 Sept. 1998: 170-172.

Last name

Initial, standing for first name Title of the article

Title of the magazine, periodical…

Page numbersPublication Date

Colon Period

ARTICLE WITHOUT AUTHOR'S NAME

"New Human Retrovirus." Science

News. 26 Dec. 1987: 391.

Title of the articleTitle of the magazine,

periodical…

Page numbers

Publication Date

PeriodColon

Sources:

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