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MLA Quick Guide

Citing a Book

Below is the minimum that goes into a book citation.

Last name, First Name. Title of Book (italicized). Publisher, and year.

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. Viking, 1987.

Citing a Web Site

Below is what generally goes into a page from a website.

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). "Name of Webpage." Name of Website. Version number, date of resource creation (if available), URL, DOI or permalink. (If no publication date, add an access date here, for example, Accessed 25 May 2022.)

Frederick, Anthony. "Why Kindergartners Are Better Creative Thinkers Than Graduate Students." Psychology

Today. 24 September 2021, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creative-insights/202109/why-

kindergartners-are-better-creative-thinkers-graduate-students.

Citing an article from an online database

Good news! You can copy and paste article citations from the library's databases!

Check out the video on the left to see how to do this.

Find many more Works Cited examples in Purdue OWL.

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