MLA 9

In General

Creating and checking citations will be much easier if you recognize the pattern.  It helps to think of your resources like a Russian nesting doll.  Each "container" is in its own font and in its own order.

What Goes...

"In Quotes"

Small containers (if what you read or watched is part of a larger item) it goes in quotes. You may not have a small chunk because you read/watched the whole thing. If so, start with the Big chunk.

• Article Tiles
• Webpage Name
• Chapter Titles
• Scene Title

In Italics

Big containers (where the small containers live) get italicized.

• Book Title
• Journal Title
• Magazine Title
• Newspaper Title
• Video Title
• Website Name
• Artwork Title
• And the biggest container of all (if there is one): Database name.

In Regular Font

• Content Creators: Authors, Publishers, Production Companies, uploaders on YouTube
• dates
• urls
• and everything else

Example of an Article in a Database:

Author Last Name, First Name. “I Read this Small Chunk Article.” In this Big Chunk Journal, vol. #, no. #, Date. From this Biggest Chunk Database, URL or doi.

Example of a Print Book:

Author Last Name, First Name. I Read this Whole Big Chunk Book. From This Publisher, Published in this Year.