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Citing sources

MLA Style Examples

Book: basic form, single author

Webber, Michael. Thirst for Power: Energy, Water, and Human Survival. Yale University Press, 2016. 

Book: basic form, two authors

Holmes, Richard T, and Gene E. Likens. Hubbard Book: The Story of a Forest Ecosystem. Yale University Press, 2016. 

Chapter in Edited work

Meyer, Sabine N. "The Marshall Trilogy and Its Legacies." The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature.  edited by Deborah L. Madsen, Routledge, 2016, pp.123-134. 

Journal Article

Biswas, Soumendu, V. N. Giri, and Kailash B. L. Srivastava. "Assessing the Impact of Organizational Culture and Communication on Employee Performance and Organizational Effectiveness." Psychological Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, 2007, pp. 20-28.

Magazine or Newspaper Article 

Zimmerman, Eilene. "To Foster Diversity, Paint the Big Picture." New York Times, 03 July 2011, p. 8.

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