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MLA

A guide to using MLA 9th referencing style

Online Journal article

Works Cited

​With DOI (preferred)

Surname, Given Name(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, volume number, issue number, Year, pp. page-page. Name of Database, https://doi.org/........

Smith, Edward W.L. "Informed by the Ancients: Norse Mythology and Psychotherapy." Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, vol. 40, no. 3, 1999, pp. 217-220. Wiley Online, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9450.00119.

​With URL

Surname, Given Name(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, volume number, issue number, Year, pp. page-page. Name of Database, URL.

Reilly, Alex. "Beyond the Pale: Rethinking the Fences Between Us." Griffith Review, no. 61, 2018, pp. 116-125. Informit, search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=761410495064886;res=IELAPA.

In-text

Smith (217) …

… (Smith 217).

Notes

Authors: For multiple authors check the author layout table for in-text and Works Cited list format.

Titles: All words in the article title, journal title and database title are in capitalised headline-style, except articles and prepositions.

Article title: Surround the article title with quotation marks.

Journal and database title: Both the journal title and the name of database are formatted in italics.

Date: Abbreviate month names greater than four letters: Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.

URL or DOI: It is preferable to cite the DOI link using https://doi.org/. If no DOI is available, use the URL. When including a URL remove the prefix http:// or https://.

Journal article in print

Works Cited

Surname, Given Name(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, volume number, issue number, Year, pp. page-page.

Piper, Andrew. "Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything." PMLA, vol. 121, no. 1, 2006, pp. 124-38.

In-text

Piper (130-32) …

… (Piper 138).

Notes

Authors: For multiple authors check the author layout table for in-text and Works Cited list format.

Titles: All words in the article title, and journal title are in capitalised headline-style, except articles and prepositions.

Article title: Surround the article title with quotation marks.

Journal title: The journal title is formatted in italics.

Date: Abbreviate month names greater than four letters: Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.