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MLA Citation

General MLA Guidelines

Your Works Cited page is the final page of your paper that lists all of the sources you used for your project.  Your citations include elements that are common to most works and they are listed in a specific order.  

  1. Author.
  2. Title of source.
  3. Title of container, (the package that holds the source, ex: short story in an anthology)
  4. Other contributors,
  5. Version,
  6. Number, 
  7. Publisher,
  8. Publication date, 
  9. Location. 

Notice the ending punctuation that is specific to each element.


Epps, Daniel, and Ganesh Sitaraman. "How to Save the Supreme Court." Yale Law Journal, vol. 129, no. 1, Oct. 2019, Gale in     

Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A609217945/OVIC?u=hchs&sid=OVIC&xid=8945b1       

 Accessed 8 Oct. 2020.


For more information about formatting your Works Cited Page, go to the OWL at Purdue: