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Note: MLA Bibliographies are titled Works Cited and are double spaced with a hanging indent.
When citing a print book with one author, format as such:
Author Last, Author First. Title. Publisher, date.
Example:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Penguin books, 1994.
Citations of online books are formatted as:
Author Last, Author First. Title. Format, Digital publisher, Publication Date.
Example:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Epub, Project Gutenberg, 2021
If you are citing an article you found in a database:
Author Last, Author First. "Article Title." Journal Name, vol. #, no. #, season or month (if more than one issue published annually) year, page numbers. Database Name, URL.
Example:
Giltrow, Janet, and David Stouck. "Style as politics in 'The Great Gatsby.'." Studies in the Novel, vol. 29, no. 4, winter 1997, pp. 476+. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A20350592/AONE?u=tel_a_etsul&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=43f97a39. Accessed 9 Jan. 2023.
If you are citing an online newspaper article:
Author Last, Author First. "Title." Publication, Date (formatted dd mm yyyy), URL
Cowley, Stacy. “Challenges to Student Loan Cancellation Reach Supreme Court.” The New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/business/student-loan-debt-supreme-court.html.
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