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The MLA Style Manual, published by the Modern Language Association, is a style guide widely used in academia for writing and documentation of research in the humanities, especially in English studies; the study of other modern languages and literatures, including comparative literature; literary criticism; media studies; cultural studies; and related disciplines.^[1] Basically it’s a set form of guidelines so researchers, teachers, and future mad scientists can easily understand where your ideas came from. MLA style uses a Works Cited page listing works cited page at the end of a term paper, article, or book. Brief parenthetical citations, including the name or names of author(s) and/or short titles (as needed) and numbers of pages (as applicable), are used within the text. These are keyed to and direct readers to a work or works by author(s) or editor(s) and sometimes titles, as they are presented on the list of works cited (in alphabetical order), and the page(s) of the item where the information is located (e.g. (Smith 107) refers the reader to page 107 of the cited work by an author whose surname is Smith). If there are more than one author of the same name and/or more than one title of works by that author or authors being cited, then a first name or initial and/or titles or short titles are also used within the text's parenthetical references. There are also other possible headings for lists such as "Selected Bibliography" or "Works Consulted" suggested following MLA style. This kind of uniformity is important, because even geniuses, can have brain farts. Print Resources (Stuff You Read) Books Author (last name first).  Title of book. Place of publication:  Publisher, Year of publication. Example:  One author Alexander, Ann.  Great Times in the Library. Boston:  Chadwick Jones, Inc., 2002. Example: Editors:   Barnet, Sylvan, and Vanessa Smith, eds.  An Introduction to Literature. 7th ed.  New York: Hargrove Press, 1999.  Example:  Encyclopedia article Note:  If only one article or part of a book was used, the title of that part appears in quotation marks after the author's name.  It is not necessary to include the place or publisher of a major general encyclopedia. Givens, David B. “Body Language.”  World Book Encyclopedia.  2002.   Example:  Previously published article reprinted in a book Note: Original publication  information is listed first followed by Rpt. in and the reprinted source information including title, Ed., place, publisher, date and pages. Eble, Kenneth. “A forgotten novel.”  Western Humanities Review 10, no. 3 (Summer 1956).  Rpt. in Kate Chopin.  Ed. Harold Bloom.  New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 7-16. Magazines and Newspapers Author (last name first).  “Title of article.”  Name of periodical.  Volume Number (if available) Date of publication including day month year:  Page numbers for the complete article. Example:  signed magazine article Kalb, Claudia.  “How to Lift the Mind.”  Newsweek 2 Dec. 2002:  67-70. Example: unsigned newspaper article "Teens Read for Fun."  Dallas Times Herald 16 Mar. 2001, sec. A:  14. Non-Print Resources (Stuff You Watch) Video or DVD Title.  Director.  Original year of release. Medium (videocassette or DVD).  Year of release in videocassette or DVD. Example:  Video Night and Fog. Dir. Alain Resnais.  1955.  Videocassette.  Home Vision Cinema, 1997. Example:  DVD It’s a Wonderful Life.  Dir. Frank Capra.  1946.  DVD.  Republic, 1998. Interview Name of person interviewed (last name first).  Personal or telephone interview. Date. Example:  personal interview Siever, John.  Personal interview.  12 Feb. 2003. Online Resources Web sites Author (if provided). Name of page.  Name of organization (or the term Home Page if it is a personal home page). Date of posting/Revision (if  available).  Date of access.  <electronic address>.  Example:  Article within a scholarly project or information database “This Day in History:  August 20.”  The History Channel Online. 1998.  History Channel.  19 June 1998.  <http://historychannel.com/thisday/today980920.html>. Example:  Personal  home page, no date of posting available Jones, Ellen.  Home Page. 1 June 2001.  <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ellen/.index.html>. Articles from an online subscription service such as the Gale Student Resource Center, Infotrac, or eLibrary Author.  “Title of article”.  Title of magazine or newspaper  Date:  Page numbers.  Name of database.  Provider.  Place of access if it’s a library.  Date of access.  <URL address>. Example: Magazine article from the Gale Student Resource Center Begley, Sharon.  "Mind Expansion:  Inside the Teenage Brain."  Newsweek 8 May 2000:  68. Student Resource Center.  Gale Group.  10 Feb. 2002.  <http://www.galenet.com>	SAT Word of the Day (We’ve got you covered from Allopreening to Zygodactyl) Quote of the Day
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