Help With Mla Citations

MLA citation help...............?

MLA - IN YOUR IN TEXT CITATION:

IF you cite more than one work by a particular author, include a shortened title for the particular work from which you are quoting to distinguish it from the others.

Example:

Lightenor has argued that computers are not useful tools for small children ("Too Soon" 38), though he has acknowledged elsewhere that early exposure to computer games does lead to better small motor skill development in a child's second and third year ("Hand-Eye Development" 17).

IF the author's name is not mentioned in the sentence, you would format your citation with the author's name followed by a comma, followed by a shortened title of the work, followed, when appropriate, by page numbers.

Example:

Computer studies, because it is such a new discipline, may be "too complicated for the stupid" (Lightenor, "Too Soon" 67).

Please see: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resour...


MLA - IN YOUR WORKS CITED ENTRIES:

When citing two or more sources by the same author, give the name in the first entry only. For the next entries, type three hyphens, add a period, and skip a space (---. ) then give the title. The three hyphens stand for the name(s) in the preceding entry.

There may be additional information required depending upon the source of the article (e.g., multiple editions, journal articles). Yahoo! Answers does not permit me to provide formatting examples; thus, please see:
http://www.yale.edu/bass/writing/sources... and
http://myrin.ursinus.edu/help/resrch_gui... [See (e.g., "Signed monthly magazine articles; two by the same author."] and
http://myrin.ursinus.edu/help/resrch_guides/cit_style_mla.htm#two_authors

vcs_91, the MLA citation rules for different articles by the same author are not as daunting as it may appear. I have provided sources because of the potential variables and the formatting limitations of Yahoo! Answers. Good luck.

MLA Citation Help?

I have a pride and prejudice book, which is obviously by jane austen

However, I am citing the introduction as a separate source, who is by a different author, but its in the book.

How would i do this?!

The citation for the book is:
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2003.

And the author is Carol Howard, and its just titled "Introduction"

Need help with MLA citations?

The rules with citations in an essay are pretty straight-forward, although not very many people know them. If you learn something new (at all) from the site and you talk about it in your paper, you must cite it in the paper or the works cited. If it is not a direct quotation but a paraphrase, then you put the source in parenthesis at the end of the information. For instance, if I had learned all this from an author named... Charles Charleston, then I would end the paragraph with (Charleston [followed by a page number if applicable]).

In the works cited you cite the website you got it from. Some great resources for learning about citation/citation machines are:

easybib.com (make sure it is set to MLA format)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

the owl at purdue is a great resource. The bar of possible citation needs at the left side should really help.

Also -- yes, you must cite the websites your teacher gave you - because you learned new information.

Best of luck!

Need help with MLA Citation "They say I say"?

I don't know the actual answer to this question but I always go to http://www.citationmachine.net for all of my citation questions. Maybe it will have the right answer for you.

My educated guess, as a high school teacher, is that you would quote the specific essay if it was published independently of the collection. If it was published initially as a part of "They Say I Say With Readings" then you would cite it as a part of the book. Does that make sense?

Help with MLA in text citation: two works with same title?

I am in the (very, very slow) process of writing a research paper, and I have come across a problem: I may be citing two encyclopedia articles with the same title. Here they are:

“Edgar Allan Poe.” Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol. 14........
“Edgar Allan Poe.” Enclyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 vols......

I think I'm fine with having them like this (completed of course) in my works cited page, but I'm not sure how to cite them in the text of my paper since neither articles have authors. Please help!

I need help on MLA style citations. How do i citate these in my paragraphs?

Doyle, Arthur. "A Scandal in Bohemia”. The Complete Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes.
1892. Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle Books, 1976. 11-25.

“Physiognomy.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2008. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
23 Apr. 2008. <>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy>

“Physiognomy.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 23 Apr 2008.
<>.http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001131>.

“Physiognomy.” The Skeptics Dictionary. 3 Dec. 2007. Robert Todd Carroll.
23 Apr. 2008. <>.http://www.skepdic.com/physiogn.html>.

“Physiognomy of Women.” Aryabhatt Astrology Services. 23 Apr. 2008. Aryabhatt Astrology
Services. 23 Apr. 2008.<>.http://www.aryabhatt.com/women/women.htm>.

“The Nature of Physiognomy.” DataFace. 15 May 2007. A Human Face. 23 Apr. 2008.<>.http://www.face-and-emotion.com/dataface/physiognomy/physiognomy.jsp>.