Citation Guide

The Mount uses MLA 8th ed. for citing sources.

Online sources

When documenting sources from the World Wide Web, the MLA suggests that your Works Cited entries contain as many items from the following list as are relevant and available. Here is a link to the new template to guide you.

FIRST:

1. Name of author (Last name, First name) and followed by a period.
2. Title of an article, topic, poem, or short work in quotation marks and followed by a period.

CONTAINER #1 -- the original source of the of the cited work.

1. Title of a book, magazine, or website italicized, followed by a comma.
2. If listed, name of editor, compiler, or translator for a book preceded by appropriate abbreviation such as Ed., followed by a comma.
3. If given, version for a book or magazine/journal, followed by a comma.
4. If given, number for a book or magazine/journal, followed by a comma.
5. Publisher, following the rules on pg. 97 (1.6.3), followed by a comma.
6. Publication date, followed by a comma. Use year if that is all that is given.
7. Publication location or page numbers for a book or magazine, or complete URL for website, followed by a period. Note URL is only listed once so if Container 2 is needed, put the URL at the end of Container 2.

CONTAINER #2 -- use only if the source is contained within another resource. For example, if a book or magazine is found within a database.

1. Title of the scholarly project, database, online periodical, or professional or personal site (italicized), or for a professional site with no title, a description such as Home page, that contains the source identified above, followed by a comma.
2. If given, name of the editor of the site, followed by a comma.
3. If given, version of the Container 2 resource, followed by a comma.
4. If given, number of the Container 2 resource, followed by a comma.
5. Publisher of the Container 2 resource, following the rules on pg. 97 (1.6.3), followed by a comma.
6. Publication date of the Container 2 resource, followed by a comma.
7. Publication location of the Container 2 resource, followed by a period.

Click here for a complete list of sample citations.