For more citation models, see Purdue OWL or MLA Style Center. The Writing Center | SUNY Canton
MLA CITATION 9th EDITION: QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
Works Cited
Book with one author:
Patchett, Ann. Commonwealth. HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.
Book with two authors and edition other than the first:
Eschholz, Paul and Alfred Rosa. Subject & Strategy: A Writer’s Reader. 12th ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011.
Anthologized essay with three or more authors (use first author’s name followed by a comma and et al.):
Foster, Francis Smith, et al. “Early African American Women’s Literature.” The Cambridge Companion to African
American Women’s Literature, edited by Angelyn Mitchell and Danille K. Taylor, Cambridge UP, 2009,
pp. 15-31.
Online newspaper or magazine article:
Fassler, Joe. “George Saunders on Chekhov’s Different Visions of Happiness.” The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2017,
www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/george-saunders-on-chekhovs-different-visions-
of-happiness/516798/.
Page on a website (access date not required but encouraged, esp. if no copyright date provided for website):
Frye, Carrie. “Miss Havisham: A History.” The Toast, Manderley LLC, 30 June 2016, the-
toast.net/2016/06/30/miss-havisham-a-history/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2017.
Page on a website, no author named:
“Center for Diversities and Inclusion.” SUNY Canton, www.canton.edu/diversity/.
Scholarly journal article in an online database with a digital object identifier (if no DOI, use URL instead):
Swasy, Alecia. “A Little Birdie Told Me: Factors That Influence the Diffusion of Twitter in Newsrooms.” Journal of
Broadcasting & Electronic Media, vol. 60, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 643-56. Academic Search Complete,
https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2016.1234480.
E-book:
Williams, Paul. Dreaming the Graphic Novel, Rutgers UP, EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection, search-
ebscohost-com.libproxy.canton.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=778109&site=ehost-live.
E-book with editors:
Hodgkinson, Peter and William A. Schabas, editors. Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition. Cambridge UP,
2004. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/canton/detail.action?docID=256657.
NOTE: Can omit publisher for the following: periodicals, web sites whose titles are the same as the publisher, and
websites “not involved in producing the works” they make available, e.g. JSTOR and YouTube.
MLA IN-TEXT CITATIONS (PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS) – General Format: (Last name #).
(Patchett 47)
Author name and page number available
(Eschholz and Rosa 7)
Two authors and page number available
(Foster et al. 24)
Three or more authors and page number available
(Frye)
Author available, but no page number because it is a web document
(“Center for Diversities”)
Web page with no author, so use article title (shortened if needed) in quotes
(Swasy 652)
Scholarly article in online database; original print page number available
NOTE: As you insert your own source info into the above templates, take care to capitalize, punctuate, italicize,
and indent appropriately. Double space your works-cited list and arrange in alphabetical order.
Print
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EX. 2: A SCHOLARLY ARTICLE IN ONLINE DATABASE
A Little Birdie Told Me: Factors That Influence the
Diffusion of Twitter in Newsrooms
Alecia Swasy
MLA CITATION 9th EDITION: THE CONTAINER SYSTEM
1
Author.
Patchett, Ann.
2
Title of source.
Commonwealth.
3
Title of container,
4
Other contributors,
5
Version,
6
Number,
7
Publisher,
HarperCollins Publishers,
8
Publication date,
2016.
9
Location.
1
Author.
Swasy, Alecia.
2
Title of source.
“A Little Birdie Told Me: Factors
That Influence the Diffusion of
Twitter in Newsrooms.”
3
Title of container,
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic
Media,
4
Other contributors,
5
Version,
6
Number,
vol. 60, no. 4,
7
Publisher,
8
Publication date,
Dec. 2016,
9
Location.
pp. 643-56.
3
Title of container,
Academic Search Complete,
4
Other contributors,
5
Version,
6
Number,
7
Publisher,
8
Publication date,
9
Location.
doi:
10.1017/S0018246X06005966.
Swasy, Alecia. “A Little Birdie Told Me: Factors That Influence the Diffusion of Twitter in
Newsrooms.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, vol. 60, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp.
643-56. Academic Search Complete, https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2016.1234480.
Journal of
Broadcasting
& Electronic
Media
Patchett, Ann. Commonwealth. HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.
EX. 1: A BOOK
Ann Patchett
Commonwealth
