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ENGL 2015: College Composition & Rhetoric II: Cite sources

This guide is used with the Bridge Program's ENGL 2015 course, a second semester of composition and rhetoric education.

Style Guide

For many of your style and citation questions, it's best to go straight to the source! Find a copy of the MLA style manual at the Help Desk.

MLA Online Guides

MLA Citation Style is used when writing or citing works in the humanities.

Many of the library databases will create an MLA style citation for you! When this isn't available, the guides below can help you create your own. 

Citing Images and Video

The 8th edition of the MLA Handbook makes it easier than ever to cite images and multimedia sources. For any kind source you have, list these items in order to create a Works Cited entry:

  1. Author.
  2. Title of source. (whole items like books or films in italics, parts like chapter or article in quotes)
  3. Title of container, (website, database, anthology, etc.)
  4. Other contributors, (editor, illustrator, translator)
  5. Version,
  6. Number,
  7. Publisher,
  8. Publication date,
  9. Location.

In-text citations are also easy. In general, you need the author/creator last name and a page number or other location, like the time stamp on a video or audio source.

Example:

Rosenberg, Douglas (Director). Dancing on the Edge. Dance Online: Dance in Video, Stephanie Reinhart, Charles L. Reinhart, and Douglas Rosenberg (Producers), Volume 1, American Dance Festival, 1992. 

(Rosenberg 0:15:32)

Example from the MLA on citing a photo located through a search engine such as Google.

More info on the Purdue Owl website.