MLA Citation:

Using your MLA Citation handout, choose the correct answer for each of the following questions:
1. You need to cite a book that you read. The author is William K. Klingaman and the title is
Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. The book was published in 2001 by Viking
Press in New York.
The correct way to cite this book on your Works Cited page is:
a. Klingaman, W. K. Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. New York: Viking Press,
2001.
b. Klingaman, William K. Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. New York: Viking
Press, 2001.
c. Klingaman, William K. (2001). Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. New York:
Viking Press
2. You want to include in your Works Cited an article or a book written by two people. The
correct way to include both their names in the citation (according to MLA style) is (See MLA
Examples: Book with two Authors):
a. Becker, Mark B., and Susan J. Rozek
b. Becker, M. B., and S. J. Rozek
c. Becker, Mark B., and Rozek, Susan J.
3. You have an article with one author from a journal that you want to include in your Works
Cited. Here is information about the journal (See MLA Examples: Journal).
journal title: Issues in Law and Medicine
volume and issue: volume 46, issue 4
page numbers: 125-136.
Year: 2001
How would you write just the journal part of your citation in MLA style? This is the information
you would put after the author and article title?
a. Issues in Law and Medicine, v.46, no.4, pg. 125-136, 2001.
b. Issues in Law and Medicine, 46.4 (2001): 125-136.
c. Issues in Law and Medicine, 46 (4), 125-136, 2001.
4. You found several articles that you used for your paper that were full-text from the librarys
databases. The one below was from the database Academic Search Premier:
Credit Card Debt On College Campuses: Causes,
Consequences, And Solutions. By: Norvilitis, Jill M.;
Santa Maria, Phillip. College Student Journal,
Sep2002, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p356-364.
The proper way to cite this article in your Works Cited in MLA style is (see MLA Examples
Online Journal):
a. Norvilitis, Jill M., and Phillip Santa Maria. Credit Card Debt on College Campuses:
Causes, Consequences, and Solutions. College Student Journal 36.3 (Sept. 2002): 356364. Academic Search Premier http://www.epnet.com/.
b. Norvilitis, Jill M. & Phillip Santa Maria. Credit Card Debt on College Campuses:
Causes, Consequences, and Solutions. College Student Journal 36.3 (2002): 356-364.

Academic Search Premier. 8 Sept. 2003.

c. Norvilitis, Jill M., and Phillip Santa Maria. Credit Card Debt on College Campuses:
Causes, Consequences, and Solutions. College Student Journal 36.3 (2002): 356-364.
Academic Search Premier 8 Sept. 2003 <http://web5.epnet.com/>
5. You used information for a research paper from a website that is part of the Web4Health
Web site that you viewed on Sept. 15, 2003. The page you want to use is written by Gunborg
Palme called: How Media Affect Body Image of Women. It was most recently updated on
August 9, 2003 and the URL is http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-cultureexample.htm. What is the correct way to cite this Web site? (See MLA Examples: Web Site.)
a. Palme, Gunborg. "How Media Affect Body Image of Women." 09 Aug. 2003. Web4Health 15
Sep. 2003 <http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-cultureexample. htm>.
b. Palme, Gunborg. "How Media Affect Body Image of Women." 09 Aug. 2003.
Web4Health <http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-culture-example.htm>.
c. Palme, Gunborg. How Media Affect Body Image of Women. 09 Aug. 2003.
Web4Health 15 Sep. 2003 <http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-cultureexample. htm>.
6. You are writing a paper on the ethics of downloading music from the Internet. One article
you used in your research comes from the Wall Street Journal. The article is titled Will the
Music Industry Sue Your Kid? It appeared in the September 10, 2003 issue on page 1D and
was written by Carl Bialik. You want your teacher to know that you are using ideas from this
article or paraphrasing, but you are not quoting directly. (See MLA Examples: In-text
citation.)
What is the correct way to make a parenthetical reference when you are quoting or paraphrasing
another authors work?
a. Since the music industry has begun to sue young people who are helping download huge
amounts of music from the Internet, some parents fear that they will have to pay large
sums of money to protect themselves. Parents do not have to worry about being sued if
they are unaware what their kids are doing. (Bialik 2003)
b. Since the music industry has begun to sue young people who are helping download huge
amounts of music from the Internet, some parents fear that they will have to pay large
sums of money to protect themselves. Parents do not have to worry about being sued if
they are unaware what their kids are doing. (Bialik 1D)
c. Since the music industry has begun to sue young people who are helping download huge
amounts of music from the Internet, some parents fear that they will have to pay large
sums of money to protect themselves. Parents do not have to worry about being sued if
they are unaware what their kids are doing. (Bialik 2003 1D)
The exercise is taken from http://www.library.arizona.edu