ROTC - Biography Research Paper: Citations Tips

General MLA Format

How to Cite a Tweet

Works Cited Page

• Works Cited: Books
• Works Cited: Periodicals
• Works Cited: Electronic Sources
• Works Cited: Other Common Sources

In-Text Citations: the Basics

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• Footnotes and Endnotes

Abbreviations used in MLA Style Format

Example of a completed MLA Style Works Cited Page

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MLA now has instructions on how to cite a tweet

Include this information:

• Author and/or editor names (if available)
• Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)
• Title of the Website, project, or book in italics.
• Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numbers.
• Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date.

Format:

Editor, screen name, author, or compiler name (if available). “Posting Title.” Name of Site. Version number (if available). Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher). Medium of publication. 

Examples for Twitter:

Twitter handle (Author). Web log post. Twitter.com. Date posted. Web.  Date accessed.

To cite this twitter post in MLA, you would cite it like this:

Obama, Barack (BarackObama). "Finished meeting on the Hill. 4 hours before the big vote, reps are fired up and ready to go. Add your voice: http://bit.ly/3AEkDz." 7 Nov. 2009, 11:52 a.m. Tweet. 

Picture/Photograph Citation (taken from the Web), MLA Format:

Last name of photographer, First name. Name of Photograph. Date of photograph.

     Location of the photograph (if known). Title of the database or Web site.

     Web. Date of access (DD Month YYYY). 

NOTE: 2nd line and every line after that should be indented 5 spaces.

Example:

Currin, John. Blond Angel. 2001. Indianapolis Museum of Art. IMA: It's My Art.

     Web. 3 June 2010. 

Format:

Editor, author, or compiler name(if 
    available). "Posting Title." Name of 
    Site. Version number. Name of 
    institution/organization affiliated with 
    the site(sponsor or publisher), date of 
    resource creation (if available). Web. 
    Date of access.

Example:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwvoaj-h_40

Boisestatefoundation. "Boise State 
    University Honors College." YouTube.
    Web. 16 Dec. 2009.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba0SiPfrrA8

Albertsonsthelibrary. "Clara Spiegel 
     Collection at Boise State University." 
     YouTube. Web. 16 Dec. 2009.