Easy Bib is a great tool, but it's important not to follow it uncritically, because sometimes it will provide citations that are wrong. When using Easy Bib or any other citation generator, make sure to check your citations against an authority.
The library has physical copies of the MLA Handbook for your use, but we also provide a useful cheat sheet for common MLA-style citations. For writing taken from the Web, you may also find the examples below to be helpful:
Form: Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial. "Title of Article." Name of Publication, Date published in Day Month Year format, URL. Date Accessed.
Example: Black, Jane. "Long Misunderstood, Appalachian Food Finds the Spotlight." The New York Times, 9 Sept. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/ dining/appalachian-food.html. Accessed 14 Sept. 2019.
Form: “Title of Web Page.” Title of Website, Publisher, Date published in Day Month Year format, URL. Date Accessed.
Example: "Platform." The Movement for Black Lives, n.d., policy.m4bl.org/ platform/. Accessed 1 May 2019.
Note: Use "n.d." when no date is available.
Form: Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, no. Issue, Year, pp. xx-xxx.
Example: Guignard, Florence Pasche. "A Gendered Bun in the Oven: The Gender-reveal Party as a New Ritualization during Pregnancy." Studies in Religion, 44, no. 4, 2015, pp. 479-500.
Form: Last Name, First Name. “Title of Post.” Blog Name, Publisher Name (if different from name of blog), Date published in Day Month Year format, URL. Date Accessed.
Example: Orgiu, Roberto. "Are You Reading That Story? We Won't Distract You." Open, The New York Times, 9 May 2019, open.nytimes.com/reducing-distractions-we-dim-the-android-status-bar-when-users-are-reading-55be5cd7fcb. Accessed 10 Aug. 2019.
Form: @handle. "Text of tweet." Twitter, Date published in Day Month Year format, URL
Example: @andlewis. "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." Twitter, 13 Sept. 2010, twitter.com/andlewis/ status/24380177712?lang=en
Form: Last Name, First Name. "Title of Video." YouTube, uploaded by Publisher, Date published in Day Month Year format, URL
Example: Wynn, Natalie. "Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to Recognize a F@scist | ContraPoints." YouTube, uploaded by ContraPoints, 1 Sept. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4BVGPkdzk
The same rules apply for APA style. The library has physical copies of the APA Style Guide, as well as a cheat sheet of commonly cited kinds of sources. For writing taken from the Web, you may also find the examples below to be helpful. Note that ways of citing each kind of source may be close but subtly different:
Form: Last Name, First Initial., Middle Initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Name of Publication, Retrieved from URL.
Example: Black, J. (2019, September 9). Long misunderstood, Appalachian food finds the spotlight. The New York Times, retrieved from www.nytimes.com/2019/ 09/09/dining/appalachian-food.html.
Form: Last Name, F. M. (Year, Month). Title of article. Name of Publication, Volume Number(Issue Number), retrieved from URL
Example: Lozano, K. (2019, June). Box of wonders: Jenny Odell and the quest to log off. The Nation, 308(16), retrieved from https://www.thenation.com/ article/jenny-odell-how-to-do-nothing-book-review/
Form: Page title. (Year, Month Day). Retrieved from URL
Example: Platform. (n.d.) Retrieved from http://policy.m4bl.org/platform/.
Note: Use "(n.d.)" when no date is available.
Form: Last Name 1, F1. M1., Last Name 2, F2. M2., & Last Name 3, F3. M3. (Year). Title of article. Name of Publication, Volume Number(Issue Number), xx-xxx.
Example: Guignard, F. M. (2015). A gendered bun in the oven: The gender-reveal party as a new ritualization during pregnancy. Studies in Religion, 44(4), 479-500.
Form: Screen Name of Author. (Year, Month Day). Title of post [Web log post]. Retrieved from URL
Example: Roberto Orgiu. (2019, May 9). Are you reading that story? We won't distract you [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://open.nytimes.com/reducing-distractions-we-dim-the-android-status-bar-when-users-are-reading-55be5cd7fcb.
Form: Username of Author. (Year, Month Day). Text of tweet [Tweet]. Retrieved from URL
Example: andlewis. (2010, September 13). If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold [Tweet]. Retrieved from http://twitter.com/andlewis/status/24380177712?lang=en
Form: Last Name, F. M. [Username]. (Year, Month Date). Title of video [Video File]. Retrieved from URL
Example: Wynn, N. [ContraPoints]. (2017, September 1). Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to recognize a f@scist | ContraPoints [Video File]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4BVGPkdzk
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