MLA citation methods--Introductions

MLA Citation Methods

How do I quote sources academically?

Last name, first name. Title. Publisher, Date.

Last name, first name and first name last name. "article title." Title. Name of Editor, Publisher, Date.

Where do I have to look?

Title Page

Second Page

Table of Contents

The title page gives you the full title, subtitle, author and sometimes the publisher of a book.

On the second page you find more detailed information about the publishing house (location, mother firm etc.) and a date of publication for the first edition and the one you're viewing.

The table of content helps you if you only use one chapter, here you find the full name of the article, plus the page numbers, please check those either way, sometimes there are mistakes...

Let's do it!

Looking at the information again...

Bernard, Anna. Rhetorics of Belonging -- Nation, Narration and Israel/Palestine.

Looking at the information again...

Bernard, Anna. Rhetorics of Belonging -- Nation, Narration and Israel/Palestine. Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Bernard, Anna. "Intersectional Allegories: Orly Castel-Bloom and Sahar Khalifeh." Rhetorics of Belonging -- Nation, Narration and Israel/Palestine. Liverpool University Press, 2013, pp. 115-135.

Looking at the information again...

Simply put in brackets (last name author page number)

It should look like this:

You're quoting Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice page 131: "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

Mr. Darcy proposes to Lizzy in a well spoken manner, much to the surprise of the protagonist (Austen 131).

Bibliography:

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (1813). Edited by Gray, Donald and Mary A. Favret, Norton Critical Edition, 4th ed. W.W. Norton, 2016.

(If you were to quote one of the critical articles in this book you would quote it differently, but since you're referring to the primary text this works.)