ENG 210: Myth, Fantasy and Imagination

Form for in-text citations:  author's last name and page number in parentheses, example: (Wilson 67).  If you mention the author in your text, you can omit it from the in-text citation.  Example: "Wilson points out .... " (67).

The bibliography for your paper should begin on a new page and be entitled "Works Cited."  Alphabetize the works cited by author's last name, or by title if no author is known.

Book Citation:

Author's name. Title of book. Name of Publisher, date of publication.

Example:
Zipe, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Article in a Scholarly Journal Citation:

Author's name. "Title of article." Journal title, volume.issue, date, pages. Database (online only)  Access -day, month year. (online only)

Printed Article:
Orgel, Stephen. "The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 290-310.

Article from an Online Database:
Orgel, Stephen. "The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 290-310. Project Muse. Accessed 26 October 2016.

Web Page Citation:

Author name (if available). Title of work (italicized if the work is independent; in roman type and quotation marks if part of a larger work). Title of Web Site, date of publication as available, url, date of access - day, month, year. 

Examples:
"Bristol, Rhode Island."  Google Maps, https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bristol,+RI+02809/@41.6784646,-71.3060785,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e4546eab6af43b:0xf49cd322e71298fa!8m2!3d41.6771101!4d-71.2662025 Accessed 26 October 2016.

 "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab, 2016, https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ . Accessed 26 October 2016.

You can access the MLA Handbook for Writers - 8th edition online at http://mlahandbook.org

See a librarian for access information.

Additional help is available through the RWU Writing Center :  http://rwu.edu/academics/academic-services/tss/writing-center/resources

and the online resources listed below.