Samples of commonly used footnotes in MLA format follow:
A. BOOK BY ONE
AUTHOR
(MLA 5.6.1)
Petroski, Henry. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in
Successful Design. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
B. BOOK BY
TWO OR MORE AUTHORS
(MLA 5.6.4)
Vare, Ethlie Ann, Sheldon Olson, and Greg Ptacek. Mothers of
Invention. New York: Morrow, 1988.
C. BOOK WITH
AN EDITOR
(MLA 5.6.2, 5.6.12)
Hall, Donald, ed. The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes.
New York: Oxford UP, 1981.
D.
WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY (BOOK, CHAPTER, ESSAY, POEM, SHORT STORY)
(MLA 5.6.7)
Franco, Veronica. “To the Painter Jacopo Tintoretto.” Poems and
Selected Letters. Ed. and trans. Ann Rosalind Jones and Margaret F.
Rosenthal. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. 35-37.
Rubenstein, Arye. “Children with AIDS and the Public Risk” AIDS:
Facts and Issues. Eds. Victor Gong, and Norman Rusnick. New York:
Rutgers UP, 1986. 99-103.
E.
SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
(MLA 5.7.1)
Reinhardt, Leslie. “British and Indian Identities in a Picture by
Benjamin West.” Eighteenth Century Studies 31.3(1998):283-305.
F.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
(MLA 5.7.6)
Ferrara, Jerry, L. “Why Vultures Make Good Neighbors.” National
Wildlife June-July 1987: 16-20.
Prince, Dinah. “Marriage in the 80’s.” New York 1 June 1987:
30-38.
G.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES (MLA
5.7.5)
Chen, David, W. “Some Help in Running a Family Business Nearly Solo.”
New York Times 27 Feb. 1997, late ed.: B6.
H. WORLD WIDE
WEB SITES
(MLA 5.9.1)
"City Profile: San Francisco." CNN Interactive. 19 June 1998.
Cable News Network. 19 June 1998 <http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/CITY.GUIDES/WTR/north.america.
profiles/nap. Sanfrancisco.html>.
"This Day in Technology History: August 20." The History Channel.com.
2002. History Channel. 14 May 2002 <http://historychannel.com/thisday/today/980820.html>.
Path: Technology History; This Day in Technology History.
I. LECTURE,
SPEECH, OR ADDRESS
(MLA 5.8.11)
Attwood, Margaret. “Silencing the Scream.” Boundaries of the Imagination
Forum. MLA Convention. Royal York Hotel, Toronto. 29 Dec. 1993.
Herbster, Gene. “Managing Change.” Leading Change Class. Manhattanville
College. Graduate School of Business and Professions. Purchase, NY. 12
July 2003.
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