1 / 16

MLA 7.0 Citation Format

MLA 7.0 Citation Format. and. http://www.infohio.org. MLA 7.0 Style Manual. MLA has published their 7 th edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing . Changes took place in April 2009, however many schools (and online databases) are just now making the changes.

ramya
Download Presentation

MLA 7.0 Citation Format

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. MLA 7.0 Citation Format and http://www.infohio.org

  2. MLA 7.0 Style Manual • MLA has published their 7th edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. • Changes took place in April 2009, however many schools (and online databases) are just now making the changes. • There are many changes…and just when your students thought they understood it!

  3. What are the changes to MLA 7.0? • No more underlining – titles and name of online product are now italicized. • No more long URLs – only use URL of resource if the citation information does not lead easily to the source. • Continuous pagination – no longer required. • Publication medium – include the medium type such as print, Web, performance, etc. • New abbreviations – for missing information, such as n.d. for no date, n.p. for no publisher. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/

  4. How do the INFOhio resources handle this? These INFOhio resources do not contain citation information:

  5. Biography Reference Bank • Bring up the article. • Click on the button. This displays the “old” MLA format (as of October 2009). • Near the bottom of this page, click on the link “For Additional Information and Instructions please visit How to Cite Page at the following URL:” http://www.hwwilson.com/Documentation/WilsonWeb/howtocite/howtocite.htm • The examples listed here are in the correct MLA 7.0 format, but the student will have to enter the correct information.

  6. EBSCOhost • Citation information is presently provided ONLY in • Click on this icon • The example given for MLA is in 7.0 format. This change was just made in October 2009.

  7. EBSCOhost Copy and paste into Bibliography or Works Cited page.

  8. NewsBank • On the right side of the page, click on • Copy and paste citation into Word document – fix indents and spacing. • Edith Starzyk. "Ohio receives recognition for after-school programs." Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) 27 Oct. 2009, Final, Metro: B2. NewsBank. Web. 28 Oct. 2009.

  9. Oxford Reference Online • Citation information is given for all queries. • They are NOT in MLA 7.0 format. • Information can be copied and easily changed. "Titanic"  The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. Ed. I. C. B. Dear and Peter Kemp. Oxford University Press, 2007. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  Infohio - NOACSC.  5 November 2009  <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t225.e2489>

  10. Science Online • Click on the Citation button. • The citation for each document is in Chicago format…however • Click on the How to Cite link for the correct format. • Students will have to follow the format to get their article into MLA 7.0 format.

  11. World Book Web • Each level contains MLA 7.0 citation examples: • WB Kids - "Dog." World Book Kids. World Book, 2009. Web. 29 Oct. 2009. • WB Student - McGinnis, Terri. "Cat." World Book Student. World Book, 2009. Web. 29 Oct. 2009. • WB Advanced - Duren, Stephen. "Horse." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2009. Web.  29 Oct. 2009. • Scroll to the bottom of the article for citation information.

  12. Citation Builder • In World Book Advanced, click on

  13. From the pull-down menu, select citation type.

  14. Fill in the information and select print or online.Click Create Citation.

  15. World Book Citation Builder • The citation is shown in MLA, APA and Harvard formats. • Copy and paste the citation into your bibliography. • You may need to make a few clean-ups. Golding, William . Lord Of The Flies. New York, NY, Usa: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1962. Print.

  16. Other helpful sites • OWL at Purdue – Online Writing Lab • MLA Citation Examples – University of Maryland University College • Citing Sources – Duke University (several styles)

More Related