Can someone please show me how to write a MLA formatted bibliography for a book? I know how to do it for a website but I can't find my notes on the book one please help
I have a handbook here that details most everything you could think of. If you have multiple authors, or it's edited, or republished, or whatever, there are other rules.
Book with a single author:
Last name of author, First name. Book's Title. City of publisher: Publisher, Current copyright year.
Example from the book:
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Knopf, 1976.
Oh, and the publisher is supposed to be brief, omitting words like "books," "press," "inc.," and others. Example: Random House, Inc. becomes Random.
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
There are also websites that allow you to plug in the information and will format it for you, such as EasyBib (http://www.easybib.com). It's a real handy tool that will save you the time of typing everything out, and can do both MLA and APA formatted bibliographies.
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That site's pretty good, but it deviates from the absolute standards in a couple ways. It probably doesn't make a difference, but if your teacher's particularly strict it could be problematic. The things I noticed were that it didn't shorten the publisher, and it didn't change more than three authors to be (first author), et al.
However, if you know what you're doing, it's not hard to fix to be perfect. Great site!
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
ButteBlues is right. Certain English professors who like making their students squirm, like one I had, will insist on perfect MLA format. These are the sorts who are members of the MLA, who own all guides that have been published and know every single detail. Awfully mean folks, they are...
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
ButteBlues is right. Certain English professors who like making their students squirm, like one I had, will insist on perfect MLA format. These are the sorts who are members of the MLA, who own all guides that have been published and know every single detail. Awfully mean folks, they are...
Perhaps, but they've got a point. If there's a proper way to do something, that ought to be the way you do it. Sucks that the proper way in this case more or less requires you to buy a handbook to ensure correct formatting, but them's the breaks.
I bought the MLA handbook my freshman year of university. Best $15 I spent my whole four years. I used that one book more than any textbook. Of course, I was an english lit major with a double minor (don't ask) in Anthropology/Sociology and History ....... so I was more or less writing papers every week for some course or another. And every single one of them had to be formatted properly according to the MLA.
My advice is to forget using websites and pick up the handbook. At the very least if a teacher gets on your case over some detail,you can bring in the handbook to show why you did something a certain way.
My advice is to forget using websites and pick up the handbook. At the very least if a teacher gets on your case over some detail,you can bring in the handbook to show why you did something a certain way.
Pretty much.
My high school AP English teacher is ridiculously particular about MLA format as well. We must sign each paper - thus confirming that our paper is perfect MLA format and that he can and will mark it a 0 if it is not.
For real because it's only going to get worse in university when most subjects all have their own slightly different details in formatting. And sometimes individual professors want things done slightly different from MLA.
At least if you can get the basic format properly in your head, managing the variations gets a lot easier. It eventually becomes second nature.
what are these random sites you are getting the mla format out of? the first site that comes out with a google search is http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/. i don't know why you'd be getting your mla format from anywhere else. then again, maybe i'm wrong. but this is the site my teachers always recommend.
what are these random sites you are getting the mla format out of? the first site that comes out with a google search is http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/. i don't know why you'd be getting your mla format from anywhere else. then again, maybe i'm wrong. but this is the site my teachers always recommend.
I'm sorry, but the MLA Handbook is ~150 pages long.
Anything less will not be entirely accurate to the MLA Guidelines.
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Book with a single author:
Last name of author, First name. Book's Title. City of publisher: Publisher, Current copyright year.
Example from the book:
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Knopf, 1976.
Oh, and the publisher is supposed to be brief, omitting words like "books," "press," "inc.," and others. Example: Random House, Inc. becomes Random.
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However, if you know what you're doing, it's not hard to fix to be perfect. Great site!
Frankly, I don't think anybody knows the "true" MLA format, so if you use something even resembling it, you'll be fine.
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There is a correct way to do MLA format.
This is why you purchase the Style Guide.
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Perhaps, but they've got a point. If there's a proper way to do something, that ought to be the way you do it. Sucks that the proper way in this case more or less requires you to buy a handbook to ensure correct formatting, but them's the breaks.
I bought the MLA handbook my freshman year of university. Best $15 I spent my whole four years. I used that one book more than any textbook. Of course, I was an english lit major with a double minor (don't ask) in Anthropology/Sociology and History ....... so I was more or less writing papers every week for some course or another. And every single one of them had to be formatted properly according to the MLA.
My advice is to forget using websites and pick up the handbook. At the very least if a teacher gets on your case over some detail,you can bring in the handbook to show why you did something a certain way.
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Pretty much.
My high school AP English teacher is ridiculously particular about MLA format as well. We must sign each paper - thus confirming that our paper is perfect MLA format and that he can and will mark it a 0 if it is not.
But, it's all with good purpose.
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For real because it's only going to get worse in university when most subjects all have their own slightly different details in formatting. And sometimes individual professors want things done slightly different from MLA.
At least if you can get the basic format properly in your head, managing the variations gets a lot easier. It eventually becomes second nature.
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I'm sorry, but the MLA Handbook is ~150 pages long.
Anything less will not be entirely accurate to the MLA Guidelines.
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You most definitely need to locate it: that book will save you so much trouble in school it's not even funny.
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