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SAMPLE CITATIONS BASED ON

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5^th ed.

CD-ROM SOURCES (IN BHS Media Center)

MASTERPLOTS

Title of Work Print Source

“The Joy Luck Club.” Women’s Literature. Masterplots Complete. CD-ROM. Salem Press, 2000.

EXPLORING NOVELS

USE EITHER THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION AT THE TOP OF THE DOCUMENT OR, IF THERE IS NONE, CITE THE SECTION TITLE OF EXPLORING NOVELS THAT WAS USED AND FOLLOW IT WITH: EXPLORING Novels 1.0. CD-ROM. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.

EXAMPLES:

Henrickson, Shu-Huei. “An Overview of The Joy Luck Club.”

Biographical sketch of George Orwell.

Historical context of John Knowles’ A Separate Peace.

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MAGNOLIA PROJECT CITATIONS

PERIODICAL INDEX

Author’s name. “Title of Article.” Name of Periodical. Vol. #, Issue #, or other number. Date of publication. Page numbers. Date of access <electronic address>.

Example:

Harder, Ben. “New Fossils Resolve Whale’s Origin.” Science News. Vol. 160 Issue 12. 22 Sept. 2001. p180. 28 January 2006 <http://search.epnet.com>.

ENCYCLOPEDIA

Name of author of article (if given). “Title of the Article.” Title of the Publication. Copyright date. Publisher. Access date <Electronic address>.

Example:

Feder, Lillian. “Atlantis.” Encyclopedia Americana. 2006. Grolier Online. 28 January 2006 <http://go.grolier.com/>.

SIRS

Author of Article Title of Article Print Source

Cockran, Mike. “JFK: 30 Years Later, Shots Still Echo.” News-Press Fort Myers, FL. 21 November 1993. pp. 22-23. SIRS Researcher. 4 Nov. 2006 <http://library.msstate.edu/ magnolia/>.

DISCOVERING COLLECTION

“John Grisham.” DISCovering Authors. 1999. Gale Group. Discovering Collection. 4 Nov. 2006

                            <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

GALE GROUP

Visser, Nicholas.  “Audience and Closure in The Grapes of Wrath.”  Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 22,

	No. 1, Spring, 1994. pp. 19-36.  Contemporary Literature Criticism.  4 Nov. 2006 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

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INTERNET CITATIONS

Creator's name (if given). “Web Page Title”. Copyright or Update date.  Institution or organization.  Date of access

            <URL network address>.

Dawson, Daniel. “ Life of Charles Dickens.”  3 June 2002.  The History Channel Online.  1 August 2006

	 <http://historychannel.com/thisday/today>.

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PRINT SOURCE CITATIONS

BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR

Author Title City of Pub. Publisher Copyright date
Johnson, Tyler. The Culture of Japan. New York: Harper & Row, 2001.

BOOK WITH 2-3 AUTHORS

Authors Title
Easterly, Suzanne, Helen King, and Sonya Adams. Interpretation of Dreams. New York: Harper & Row, 2001.

BOOK WITH 4 OR MORE AUTHORS

Gilman, Robert, et al. A Comprehensive History of the Computer. Boston: Houghton, 2000.

BOOK WITH AN EDITOR

Seville, Charlotte, ed. Tales of the Hopi Indians. Chicago: The Bay Press, 1998.

MULTIVOLUME WORK

Draper, James, ed. World Literature Criticism. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992. 6 vols.

ENCYCLOPEDIA

Sanders, Rita. "Chess." World Book Encyclopedia. 2001 ed.

MAGAZINE/PERIODICAL

Murphy, Colleen. "Women of the 20th Century." Time. 28 Feb. l998: 146-50.

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