Online resources to help you learn about and use MLA style for your course assignments at Vol State.
The MLA Handbook is the "official" guide to the MLA style. It is available in print format at all Vol State libraries.
MLA Handbook by Select MLA Style for your project in NoodleTools for a properly formatted Works Cited page and in-text citations. Annotations and an annotated bibliography can be created with NoodleTools.
NoodleTools only provides help with citations, not the paper itself.
In this section are commonly used source types showing the correct format with an example(s) of a source. This is a quick guide to help you create your own citations. Please note: The first line of each entry should align with the left margin. All subsequent lines should be indented 5 spaces or set a hanging indent at 1/2 inch.
Format: Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
Example: Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin, 1987.
Format: Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Magazine, Day Month Year, pages.
Example: Buchman, Dana. "A Special Education." Good Housekeeping, Mar. 2006, pp. 143-48.
Format: Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, pages.
Example: Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post, 24 May 2007, p. LZ01.
Format: Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol., no., Day Month Year, pages. Database, URL or DOI.
Examples:
McKinney, Lyle and Andrea Backsheider Burridge. "Helping or Hindering? The Effects of Loans on Community College Student Persistence." Research in Higher Education, vol. 56, no. 4, Jun 2015, pp. 299-324. ProQuest Research Library, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11162-014-9349-4.
Nickel, Eleanor Hersey. "'But This is the South': Ambivalent Regionalism in Jan Karon's Mitford Novels." Studies in Popular Culture, Spring 2010, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 17-333. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23416153.
