MLA Citation Style for your bibliography & in your research paper

Type of source	Bibliography citation:	In-text citation example:
Book by a single author	Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5^th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999.	Proper citation style helps to prevent inadvertent plagiarism (Gibaldi 212).
Book by two or more authors	Pyszczynsk, Tom, Sheldon Solomon, and Jeff Greenberg. In the Wake of 9/11 : The Psychology of Terror. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2003.	The authors’ theories provide ways to understand terrorism’s effect and to find resolutions to conflicts involving terrorism (Pyszczynsk, Solomon, and Greenberg 54).
Article in an encyclopedia	“Sea Phantoms and Superstitions.” Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. Ed. J. Gordon Melton. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale Inc., 1996. 1149-51.	The largest sea serpent is known as the kraken (“Sea Phantoms and Superstitions” 1150).
Article in a journal or magazine	Gibbs, Nancy. “Chad Happens: What The Wait Is Teaching The Nation.” Journal of Politics 10.11 (2000): 28-31.	In her article, Gibbs states “This has been a travesty of justice” (28).
Article in a newspaper	Trachtenberg, Jeffrey A. “What’s in a Movie Soundtrack? Catchy Tunes and Big Business.” Wall Street Journal 1 Apr. 1994, eastern ed.: B1.	The soundtrack for the movie 'The Bodyguard' sold 27 million copies and generated $250 million in revenue (Trachtenberg B1).
Article from a research database (like EbscoHost or Lexis Nexis)	Lanken, Dane. “When the Earth Moves.” Canadian Geographic (1996): 66-73. MasterFile Premier. EBSCO. York County Comm. Coll. Lib. 15 Apr. 1998 <http://www.epnet.com/ehost/login.html>.	“The underlying cause of the 1993 Lemieux slide was natural erosion likely coupled with a high water table” (Lanken 70).
Web page	Forsyte, J.D. “The History of the Ova Prima Foundation”. The Ova Prima Foundation. 2002. 28 February 2005. <http://www.ovaprima.org/history.htm>.	Shippen and Willard discovered that the Illampi badlands had once been a nesting area for several species of small theropods (Forsyte para. 3).
Personal interview	Depp, Johnny. Personal interview. 22 May 2002.	“I’ve always wanted to be a librarian!” (Depp).
A film or videorecording	The Princess Bride. 1987. DVD. Turner, 1995.	Vizzini: INCONCEIVABLE! (The Princess Bride).