MLA Support

Formatting Page 1 of Your Research Paper

Formatting Page 1 of Your Research Paper example

 

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Formatting a Header in Microsoft Office 2010  (Adding a header with consecutive page numbers)

Formatting a Header in Google Docs (Adding a header with consecutive page numbers)

Incorporating Quotes (including long ones) in Your Research Paper

Incorporating Long Quotations in a Research Paper (prose, poetry and drama addressed here)

Screencasts

#1: How to Locate, Use and Cite the Gale For Students series:

#2: How to Access All EHS Online Resources, in general, and How to Curate/Collect Online Resources Using Google Drive (two parts):

#3: How to Locate, Use and Cite Upper-Level EHS Databases (two parts):

 

The Language of Primary Sources

Wording that can “tip off” a researcher to primary source content

Citing Online Images

Citing Online Images

Understanding Internal Documentation

(also known as Parenthetical Documentation or In-Text Citations)

Internal Documentation Tutorial: Internal-Documentation-Tutorial-latest-version-2020

Citing Single-Author Books vs. Anthologies vs. Works with Only Editors

Single Author/Anthology/Editor(s) Tutorial: citing-single-author-books-vs-anthologies-and-books-with-editors

Basic Book Citation Procedure

(How to know if your book is a single/multi-author, anthology, reprint, or book with editor) : basic-citation-procedure

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MLA, CMS and APA styles are constantly evolving, and the citation requirements periodically updating. Therefore, use the following as helpful, general guides–which I update asap–but always refer to the current edition guide for each style as Gospel.

Detailed MLA (Modern Language Association) Citation Guides–8th edition (individual “how-to” samples)

The following are links to detailed, by-type MLA sheets, housed in print form outside the librarians’ office. I first created them in the spring of 2011 in response to the request of two EHS students who were trying to use the MLA overview sheets but didn’t understand the individual components of the citation models there. Guys, this is for you!

single/one author book citation guide: the-parts-of-a-one-author-citation-one-author-citing-example-detailed-ehs-library

multiple author book citation guide: the-parts-of-a-multiple-author-book

anthology citation guide: the-parts-of-an-anthology-citation-ehs-library

book with editor citation guide: the-parts-of-a-book-with-an-editor-citation-ehs-library

book in a multi-volume set citation guide: the-parts-of-a-multi-volume-set-citation

book reprint citation guide: The Parts of a Book Reprint Citation EHS Library

magazine reprint citation guide: The Parts of a Magazine Reprint Citation EHS Library

website citation guide (for use with random websites, NOT databases): the-parts-of-a-website-citation-ehs-library

interview citation guide: the-parts-of-interview-citations-ehs-library

online standard/regular database citation guide: The Parts of a RegularStandard Database Citation

online reprint citation guide: The Parts of a Database Reprint Citation

Detailed CMS or CMOS (Chicago Manual of Style) Citation Guides–17th edition (individual “how-to” samples)

single/one author book citation guide: The Parts of a Single Author Citation EHS Library

multiple author book citation guide: The Parts of a Multiple-author book

anthology citation guide: The Parts of an Anthology Citation EHS Library

book reprint citation guide: The Parts of a Book Reprint Citation EHS Library

magazine reprint citation guide: The Parts of a Magazine Reprint Citation EHS Library

online standard/regular database citation guide: The Parts of a RegularStandard Database Citation CMS

online reprint citation guide: The Parts of an Online Reprint Citation EHS Library

Detailed APA (American Psychological Association) Citation Guides–7th edition  (individual “how-to” samples)

single/one author book citation guide: The Parts of a Single Author citation

multiple author book citation guide: The Parts of a Multiple-author book

anthology citation guide: The Parts of a RegularStandard Database Citation APA

book reprint citation guide: The Parts of a Book Reprint Citation EHS Library

magazine reprint citation guide: The Parts of a Magazine Reprint Citation EHS Library

online standard/regular database citation guide: The Parts of a RegularStandard Database Citation APA

online reprint citation guide: The Parts of an Online Reprint Citation EHS Library

blog post citation: APA Blog Citation

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Citing a YouTube Video

Citing a YouTube Video

Citing a Recorded Television Program

Citing a Recorded Television Program

 Works Cited Pages with Annotations

Annotated Bibliographies–Basic Information

Annotated Works Cited Sample

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