MLA Style Citation—Citation Elements

• Author and/or Editor
• Publisher of a book
• Date Published
• Volume and issue numbers of some "serial" publications
• Title of the journal or book
• Title of article or chapter
• Web site where you found it, sometimes

Check out the list of different sorts of sources that can be cited in the list in the gray box on the left.

You should cite all the works you used at the end of your paper. However, you also must cite specific ideas or quotations using in-text citation. To learn more about in-text citation, click the in-text citation link on the left.