Abbreviations used in MLA Style Format
Example of a completed MLA Style Works Cited Page
From The OWL at Purdue, an Online Writing Lab created and maintained by the English department at Purdue University
From the MLA: Modern Language Association
MLA now has instructions on how to cite a tweet
Include this information:
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.
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.
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.