Quick Referencing Rules – MLA Style
In-Text Citations:
An In-Text Citation is placed in
brackets in the main body of your essay just after a quotation or paraphrase to
indicate that you have used the work of someone else.
For Books: (Author
Surname, page number)
(Dombrowski,
46)
For
Websites: (Author Surname) or (Shortened
Page Name) if there is no author
(Hoye)
(Quick
Referencing Rules)
Bibliography:
A bibliography
is a more detailed list of all the sources that you have used in your work;
this should come on a separate page at the end of the essay. All of the sources
should be listed alphabetically and they should be set out in exactly the way
that they are below, pay attention to the commas, full stops and italics: these
need to be in the right order!
For Books: (Surname, First name. Title. City: Publishing Company, Date
Published. Medium
(Dombrowski,
Eileen et al. TOK Course Companion. Oxford: OUP, 2007. Print)
For
Websites: (Surname, First
name. “Page Title”. Publisher. Date
Posted. Medium. Date Visited. URL)
(Hoye, Kevin. “Quick Referencing Rules”. 20th
Oct. 2011. Web. 13th Dec. 2012. http://www.mrhoyestokwebsite.com)
For Articles: (Surname,
First name. “Article Title,” Magazine.
Date: Page Number. Medium)
(Robertson, Grant. “The Meaning of Life,” Time. 20th Oct. 2011: p.34.
Print)
Although these kinds of sources are the ones that you
are more likely to use, there are lots of other guidelines for how to reference
other kinds of sources, e.g. interviews, emails, videos, etc details of which
can be found on the library website or by following the link http://sites.cdnis.edu.hk/school/library/citing-sources/