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When you cite your sources, you are giving proper credit to the authors, and at the same time, strengthening your own work. Citation styles vary by discipline. For the fields of the humanities (English, History, Literature, etc.), we use the style guide put out by the Modern Language Association which is called MLA citation style. Regardless of whichever citation style you are required to use, citations always have two parts. First, you must cite your sources within the body of your paper, and these are called "in-text" citations. And secondly, you must compose a bibliography of all your sources at the end of your paper; when using MLA, this is called your "works cited" page. Below are examples of how to compose citations for different types of sources using MLA.
Book with a Single Author:
Last name, First name. Title: Subtitle. Publisher, Year.
Garton Ash, Timothy. Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. Yale University Press, 2016.
Book with Two Authors:
Last name, First Name, and First name Last Name. Title: Subtitle. Edition, Publisher, Year.
Grimes, Corinne, and Sandra Swick. Nursing School Entrance Exams. 3rd ed., Barron Educational Series, Inc., 2007.
Book with More Than One Editor:
Last name, First Name. Title: Subtitle. Edited by First Name Last Name and First Name Last Name, Publisher, Year.
Obama, Barack. We are the Change We Seek. Edited by E.J. Dionne and Joy-Ann Reid, Bloomsbury, 2017.
Video of Speech/Talk Found on the Web:
Speaker last name, First name. "Title." Website Name, Uploaded by username (if applicable), date uploaded, URL (omit https://)
Jobs, Steve. "Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005." YouTube, uploaded by joshuag, 6 Mar. 2006, www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA.
Newspaper Article in a Research Database
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of the Article." Title of the Newspaper, Date, Page(s). Title of the Database, URL (omit http) or DOI.
Rosenfeld, Megan. "The Wellesley Protest, Beyond Barbara Bush from Campus Petition to Public Debate, Students Touch a National Nerve." The Washington Post, May 28, 1990, p. B1. ProQuest, search.proquest.com/docview/307265307?accountid=39196.