Research Guides: FMST 90: Senior Capstone: Archiveology (SC): MLA Citations

MLA Handbook

MLA Handbook
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Publication Date: 2021
The ninth edition of the MLA Handbook is a textbook and reference guide that offers student writers and writing instructors guidance on creating works-cited-list entries in MLA style using the template of core elements. It features advice on punctuation, grammar, inclusive language, formatting research papers, and in-text citations. Includes an appendix of sample works-cited-list entries, illustrations, and an index.

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Citation Managers

Zotero: The Tri-College Libraries recommend Zotero, a free tool that can format your bibliography, keep your citations organized, and even save your articles in the cloud so you can access them later from the library, home, or a cafe. See the Tri-College Guide to Zotero for more details.

EndNote Basic: The Tri-Colleges provide free access to EndNote Basic. See the Tri-College Guide to EndNote Basic for more details.

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MLA: In-Text Citations

MLA Format for In-Text Citations

The control of food determines how a person views his or her government (Standage).

"Half the expense of the diet went on grain, 35 per cent on animal products, and the rest on potatoes" (Clarkson 63).

"There would seem therefore to be no doubt that the type of potato plant which reached Western Europe at the end of the sixteenth century must have been much like the types we now know were common in England prior to the latter half of the seventeenth century" (Salaman 618–619).

MLA: Bibliography

Anbinder, Tyler. “From Famine to Five Points: Lord Lansdowne’s Irish Tenants Encounter North America’s

Most Notorious Slum.” The American Historical Review 107.2 (2002): 351–387. JSTOR, doi:10.1086/532290.

Clarkson, Leslie A. Feast and Famine: Food and Nutrition in Ireland, 1500-1920. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2001.

Nally, David. “‘That Coming Storm’: The Irish Poor Law, Colonial Biopolitics, and the Great Famine.”

Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98.3 (2008): 714–741. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25515149.

Reader, John. Potato: a History of the Propitious Esculent. Yale University Press, 2009.

Salaman, Redcliffe N. The History and Social Influence of the Potato. University Press, 1970.

Standage, Tom. An Edible History of Humanity . 1st U.S. ed., Walker & Co., 2009.