MLA 8th edition
MLA 7th edition
Note: The new 8th edition of MLA style was released in March 2016. All examples on this site are for the 8th edition.
Below are some common examples to get you started using MLA style.
Note:
Book with one author
MLA 8th edition
Hoffman, Frederick John. The Great Gatsby: A Study. Scribner, 1962.
Journal article from an online database
MLA 8th edition
Briggs, Ward. "Petronius and Virgil in "The Great Gatsby"." International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 6, no. 2, 1999, pp. 226-235. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/30222545.
E-book
MLA 8th edition
An e-book—that is, a book that lacks a URL and that you use software to read on a personal device or computer—is considered a version according to the MLA Handbook’s template of core elements:
MLA Handbook. 8th ed., e-book, Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
Newspaper article from online
MLA 8th edition
Revkin, Andrew C. "Clinton on Climate Change." The New York Times, 17 May 2007, www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/1194817109438/clinton-on-liate-change.html. Accessed 29 July 2016.
(The following is taken directly from: MLA Sample Works Cited Page, https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/)
Works Cited
Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." The New York Times, 22 May 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22
/science/earth/22ander.html?_r=0. Accessed 12 May 2016.
Ebert, Roger. Review of An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim. rogerebert.com, 1 June 2006,
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-inconvenient-truth-2006. Accessed 15 June 2016.
Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of
Sustainable Development and World Ecology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27-36.
An Inconvenient Truth. Directed by Davis Guggenheim, performances by Al Gore and Billy West, Paramount, 2006.
Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. Springer, 2005.
Milken, Michael, et al. "On Global Warming and Financial Imbalances." New Perspectives Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, 2006, p. 63.
Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming." American Economic Review, vol. 96, no. 2,
2006, pp. 31-34.
---. "Global Warming Economics." Science, vol. 294, no. 5545, 9 Nov. 2001, pp. 1283-84, DOI: 10.1126/science.1065007.
Regas, Diane. “Three Key Energy Policies That Can Help Us Turn the Corner on Climate.” Environmental Defense Fund, 1 June
2016, www.edf.org/blog/2016/06/01/3-key-energy-policies-can-help-us-turn-corner-climate. Accessed 19 July 2016.
Revkin, Andrew C. “Clinton on Climate Change.” The New York Times, 17 May 2007, www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas
/1194817109438/clinton-on-climate-change.html. Accessed 29 July 2016.
Shulte, Bret. "Putting a Price on Pollution." US News & World Report, vol. 142, no. 17, 14 May 2007, p. 37. Ebsco, Access no:
24984616.
Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge UP, 2003.
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Anchor Books, 1995.