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Purdue Online Writing Lab: MLA Style Guide
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides writing resources and instructional materials for writing projects. The MLA Style Guide includes an introduction to the style, citation formatting for various sources, formatting for in-text citations and reference lists, and more.
Basic Form
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, pages.
Article in a Magazine
Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time, 20 Nov. 2000, pp. 70-71.
Article in a Newspaper
Krugman, Andrew. "Fear of Eating." New York Times, late ed., 21 May 2007, p. A1.