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Parenthetical

(Gillespie and Lerner 231)

[NOTE: treat an encyclopedia entry as you would a piece in a collection--see above-- but do not cite the editor of the reference book. If Article has an author (may be initials at the end), give the author first; if the Article is unsigned, give the title first. See MLA Handbook for more details.]

"Ginsburg, Ruth Bader." Who's Who in America. 56th ed. 2002. Print.

"Noon." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 1994. Print.

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. medium.

Hertzberg, Hendrik. "Eight Is Enough." The New Yorker 1 Dec. 2008: 27. Print.

Rich, Frank. "It Still Felt Good the Morning After." New York Times 9 Nov. 2008 late ed.: WK9. Print.

Rev. of Anthology of Danish Literature, ed. F.J. Billeskov Jansen and P.M. Mitchell. Times Literary Supplement 7 July 1972: 785. Print.

[NOTE: cite a published dissertation as you would a book, but add the pertinent dissertation information before Publication information. If the work was published by University Microfilms International (UMI), you may add the order number as supplementary information.]

Published: Smith, William Scott. "The Placement of Inexperienced Teachers in New Jersey High Schools in Relation to Their Academic Preparation." Diss. New York University, 1938. New York: New York University, 1938.  Print.

Unpublished: Enclose the title of an unpublished dissertation in quotation marks; do not underline it. To cite a master's thesis, substitute the appropriate label (e.g., MA thesis or MS thesis) for Diss.

[NOTE: cite the published paper or proceedings of a conference as you would a book, but add the pertinent information about the conference before publication information. Cite a presentation in the proceedings like a work in a collection (see above.)]

Chang, Steve S., Lily Liaw, and Josef Ruppenhofer, eds. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 12-15, 1999: General Session and Parasession on Loan Word Phenomena. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2000. Print.

Positively Smooth Shave Gel by Aveeno. Advertisement. Allure. Nov. 2008: 46. Print.

[NOTE: citation should include the name of the product and company, followed by the descriptive label "Advertisement' neither underlined or in quotation marks.]

[NOTE: citations for film, video, and sound recordings may differ based on your desired emphasis. Please see complete MLA Handbook for further information.]

Annie Hall. Dir. Woody Allen. Perf. Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. 1977. MGM Home Entertainment, 2005. DVD.

Ellington, Duke, cond. First Carnegie Hall Concert. Duke Ellington Orchestra. Rec. 23 Jan. 1943. Prestige, 1977. LP.

Lekman, Jens. "I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You." Night Falls Over Kortedala. Secretly Canadian, 2004. CD.

(Annie Hall)

(Ellington)

("I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You")

Reference Type

"Hanging Out with the Wacky 'Flight of the Conchords.'" CNN.com. 2009. Cable New Network. 27 January 2009

[NOTE: As of 2009, URLs are no longer required unless the citation does not easily lead the reader to the source.]

Carleton.edu. 2009. Carleton College. 8 January 2009 .

Library Jargon Defined. Ed. Beth Brin. 2006. Albertsons Library, Boise State University. 25 January 2009 .

[NOTE: include the name of site's editor if available.]

Geology and Geophysics. Dept. home page. University of Utah. 28 December 2009 .

[NOTE: citations for home pages of a course, academic dept., or personal website should include a description like this one and should not be underlined.]

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E-mail

[NOTE: MLA style capitalizes the "e" in E-mail and includes a hyphen.]

[Email:] Author. "Title of the message." E-mail to person's name. Date message.

[Email to you:] Author. "Title of the message." E-mail to the author. Date of message.