Citing+Print+Sources


 * __Creating Citations for Print Sources__**

For more particular situations than the ones listed below go to either OWL Purdue's MLA Works Cited Page: Books or OWL Purdue's MLA Works Cited Page: Periodicals (Magazines and Newspapers).

__**Book - One Author**__ **Model**:

Last Name, First Name. //Title//. Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

Kallen, Stuart A. //Life in the Amazon Rainforest//. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999. Print.

__**Book - Two Authors**__ **Model**:

Last Name, First Name, and First Name Last Name. //Title//. Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

Kallen, Stuart A., and John Smith. //Life in the Amazon Rainforest//. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999. Print.

__**Book - More than Three Authors**__ **Model**:

Last Name, First Name, et al. //Title//. Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

Kallen, Stuart A., et al. //Exploring the Amazon Jungle//. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999. Print.

__**More than one book by the same author**__ On the works cited page, all the sources are listed alphabetically by the first name or word in the citation. When there is more than one work by the same author, the citations for the works following the first can replace the author's name with three dashes (---).

**Model**:

Last Name, First Name. //Title//. Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright. Medium of Publication.

---. //Title//. Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

Kallen, Stuart A. //Life in the Amazon Rainforest//. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999. Print.

---. //Living Among the Wildlife of the Amazon.// New York: Penguin, 2001. Print.

__**Book with Corporate Author**__ **Model**:

Corporation Name. //Title//. Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

American Heart Association. //Heart Disease in America 1950-1960//. New York: Random, 2003. Print.

__**Book with No Author**__ **Model**:

//Title.// Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

//Atlas of the 50 States.// New York: National Geographic, 1997. Print.

__**Reference Book (Example: Encyclopedia Article)**__ **Model**:

"Title." //Name of the Reference Set//. # ed. Copyright. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

"Dinosaurs." //The World Book Encyclopedia//. 2nd ed. 2003. Print.

__**Magazine Article**__ **Model**:

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." //Title of Magazine// Day Month Year: Pages. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

Smith, John. "The Cost of Medicare." //Newsweek//. 22 Sept. 2011: 15-18. Print.

__**Newspaper Article**__ **Model**:

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." //Title of Newspaper// Day Month Year: Page. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

Smith, John. "Rethinking Renewable Energy." //Wall Street Journal// 14 Jul. 1999: C03. Print.

__**Government Document**__ **Model**:

Name of National Government. Agency that is the Organizational Author. //Title//. Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright. Medium of Publication.

**Example**:

United States. Department of Health and Human Services. //Rising Costs of Medicare in America//. Washington: National Institute of Health, 2009. Print.