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ENGL 2810 Youth Literature & Culture

MLA Style Citation for a Journal Article

MLA Format for a Journal Article

Last, First, and First Last. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. #, no. #, Year, pp. #-#. DOI.

Example

Lester, Catherine. "The Children's Horror Film: Characterizing an 'Impossible' Subgenre." The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 78, no.1, 2016, pp. 22-37. doi.org/10.7560/VLT7803.

Notes

  • The first author's name is structured as last name, first name. Following authors are listed as first name last name.
    • If there are 3 or more authors, only list the first author followed by et al. (Latin for "and others").
  • The title of the article is in Title Case
    • Refer to this page for information on titles within titles
  • The title of the journal is in italics and Title Case
  • The volume number is noted with vol.
  • The issue number is noted with no.
  • Only the year is included for academic journal articles
  • Page numbers are noted with pp.
    • Omit the first sets of repeated digits. Pages 225 to 251 would be notated as pp. 225-51
    • A single page is notated as a single p.
  • The DOI can be formatted as a link (doi.org/10.1111/jan.15480) or as a number (DOI: 10.1111/jan.15480). If there is no DOI, use a permalink from the Library Search item record or the database you found it in.
  • Create a half-inch hanging indent

Example MLA Citations for Books and Book Chapters

MLA Citation for a Book

Example

McCort, Jessica R. Reading in the Dark: Horror in Children’s Literature and Culture. University Press of Mississippi, 2016.

Format

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

  • Include editor or editors after the name if they are editors of the book.

MLA Citation for a Book Chapter

Example*

Parkinson, Claire. "Too Dark for Disney: Tim Burton, Children's Horror and Pet Death." Tim Burton’s Bodies : Gothic, Animated, Creaturely and Corporeal, edited by Stella Hockenhull, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Edinburgh University Press, 2021, pp. 94-104. doi.org/10.1515/9781474456920-011.

Format

Last Name, First Name. “Title of the Chapter.” Book Title, edited by Editor Name, publisher, year, page number(s).

*Don't forget a hanging indent!