MLA Formatting Exercise
Part I:
Put the following bibliographic information in correct MLA Format. Take the five sources listed below and create a Works Cited page.
Sources:
Diana Hacker (author), A Writers Reference (book title), 1999 (publication year), Bedford/St. Martin’s Guide (publishing company), Boston (place of publication)
Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey (authors), Who are You? (book title), 1969 (publication year),Eel Pie Press (publishing company), New York and London (publications locations)
Newsweek (the weekly magazine), The Gems of War: How Illicit Diamonds Finance Africa’s Bloodiest Conflicts (title of article), Tom Masland (author), July 10, 2000 (issue date), 20-24 (page numbers)
Sabine Zosel (author), http:www.germanpoetry.de (URL), German Poetry (journal title), Poets of the former East (title of article), 1999 (year of journal publication), 18 (volume #), 3 (issue #). July 4, 2000 (date is was accessed by the user).
St Louis Post Dispatch (newspaper name), November 8,1998 (date published, C (section, 1 (page), “Local boy named trucking fleet skipper”
Magazine article from Proquest: Becker, Gary S. Get the FDA Out of the Way, and Drug Prices Will Drop. Business Week 16 Sep. 2002:16. Proquest. 5 Nov. 2002 Keyword: Prescription Drug.
Part 2:
Parenthetical Citations
Using the following examples from scholarly articles and books and the information given below each example, create a parenthetical citation that would be used in a research paper.
Example 1 – Create a parenthetical citation for the following.
Genetically Modified crops are grown commercially in over 40 countries and 6 continents. According to the US Department of Energy Office of Science in 2000, “the country that grew 99% of the global Genetically Modified crops was the United States.”
The above information and quotation came from the following source:
Genetically Modified Foods and Organisms. 29 Aug. 2001. U.S. Department of Energy: Office of Science. 25 Oct. 2002. <http://ornl.gov/hgmis>.
Example 2 – Create a parenthetical citation for the following.
The FDA is responsible for the labeling of all foods except for, poultry and some egg products.
The above information and quotation came from the following source:
United States Food and Drug Administration. 8 Nov. 2002. U.S. Department and Human Services. 22 Oct. 2002< http://www.fda.gov>.
