University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
Modern Language Association (MLA) style is typically used by witers in literature, arts, and humanities fields.
The 8th Edition of the MLA Handbook was published in 2016. It is substantially different from the 7th edition.
The library has three copies of the MLA's 8th edition handbook, two for checkout and one for reference use within the library.
Book
In this example, we're citing a quotation from page 112 of the book Operetta: A Theatrical History, written by Richard Traubner and published in 1983 by Doubleday, a publishing house based in Garden City, New York.
In-text citation:
If you mention the author by name in the text, you don't have to include the author's name in the citation:
Traubner notes, “There is more ‘drama’ in a Strauss operetta waltz than in the vast majority of French or Viennese couplets” (112).
If you do not mention the author by name in the text, you must include the author's name in the citation:
Strauss’s operettas rely on the inherent romanticism and theatricality of the waltz; one author notes, “There is more ‘drama’ in a Strauss operetta waltz than in the vast majority of French or Viennese couplets” (Traubner, 112).
Bibliography:
Traubner, Richard. Operetta: A Theatrical History. Doubleday, 1983.
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Article
In this example, we're citing information paraphrased from page 859 of the article "Seasonal adaptations of the fall webworm Hyphantria cunea (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) following its invasion of Japan,” which was written by Tadashi Gomi. The article was published in 2007 in volume 22, issue 6 of the journal Ecological Research, and it appeared on pages 855-861. This an article we found online, and its DOI (document object identifier) is 10.1007/s11284-006-0327-y.
In-text citation:
If you mention the author by name in the text, you don't have to include the author's name in the citation:
Gomi states that the trivoltine life cycle exhibited by Hyphantria cunea in southwestern Japan is most likely due to warmer temperatures in that part of the country (859).
If you do not mention the author by name in the text, you must include the author's name in the citation:
In southwestern parts of Japan, Hyphantria cunea, the fall webworm, has a trivoltine life cycle, most likely due to warmer temperatures in that part of the country (Gomi, 859).
Bibliography:
Gomi, Tadashi. “Seasonal adaptations of the fall webworm Hyphantria cunea (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) following its invasion of Japan.” Ecological Research vol. 22, no. 6, 2007, pp. 855-61. doi: 10.1007/s11284-006-0327-y.
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Blog
In this example, we're citing an entry in Peter Filichia's blog on the Masterworks Broadway website. The blog entry is titled "The Reviews are in for Bajour" and was published on March 4, 2014. The URL for the entry is http://www.masterworksbroadway.com/blog/the-reviews-are-in-for-bajour/. According to the page footer, the site's copyright is held by Sony Music Entertainment.
In-text citation:
If you mention the author by name in the text, you don't have to include the author's name in the citation:
Filichia states that when he asked Steven Suskin why he omitted the 1964 musical Bajour from his collocation of Broadway reviews, Opening Nights on Broadway, Suskin replied that he did not think that any of Bajour's reviews were interesting.
If you do not mention the author by name in the text, you must include the author's name in the citation:
Steven Suskin omitted the 1964 musical Bajour from his collocation of Broadway reviews, Opening Nights on Broadway, because he did not think that any of Bajour's reviews were interesting (Filichia).
Bibliography:
Filichia, Peter. “The Reviews are in for Bajour.” Masterworks Broadway, Sony Music Entertainment, 4 Mar. 2014, http://www.masterworksbroadway.com/blog/the-reviews-are-in-for-bajour/. Accessed 11 Nov. 2016.
