MLA Citations

There is a lot of information on the Web about citing works. Here are a few helpful links.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
This document covers a lot of the methods we looked at in class today. It is a good complementary resource for your Harbrace Handbook.

http://www.westwords.com/guffey/mla.html
This document goes into a lot of detail about citing electronic sources. It also explains why there are often two dates in a single citation. The first date is the publication date of, say, the Web page. The second date is the access date, or the date you viewed the Web page. Sometimes Web pages don't have publication dates, in which case you would only use the access date.