General Tips
Use a hanging indentation for the citation; use the author's full name(s) as given; capitalize all keywords in Title of Work, Title of Periodical, Title of Article, and Title of Chapter; do not include the issue number unless the journal begins with page one with each issue; cut-down pages numbers (i.e. instead of 119-134 or 91-98 use 119-34 and 91-8).

Books

Author, Albert A.  Title of Book.  Location:
        Publisher, 2001.

Journal Articles

Author, Albert A., Bernard B. Author, and Charles C. Author.
        "Title of Article."  Title of Periodical xx.x (2001): xxx-xx.

Chapters from Books

Author, Albert A.  "Title of Chapter."  Title of Book.
        Ed. Bernard B. Author.  2nd ed. Vol. 8. Location:
        Publisher, 2001. xxx-xx.

Electronic Resources

Online periodical not from a subscription database:

            Author, Albert A., Author, Brandon B., & Author,
                    Charles C. "Title of Article."  Title of Periodical xx.x
                    (year). 18 June 2002 <insert URL here>.

Online document:

            Author, Albert A. "Title of Document."  Title of Work. 
                     Date of work. Name of Web site owner/sponsor. 
                    18 June 2002 <insert URL here>. 

For this example, 18 June 2002 is the date the document was accessed.

Full-Text Articles from Subscription Databases

Please refer to Citing Full-Text Articles from Subscription Databases for database-specific examples.

MLA Style Guides in Snowden Library

Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.
        2nd ed.  New York: MLA, 1998.
        CALL NUMBER:  Ref. PN147 .G444 1998 [REFDESK]

Other MLA Style Web Sites

Citation Styles Handbook: MLA
The Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style
Modern Language Association of America

MLA
Dr. Abel Scribe, PhD