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MLA Writing Guide: Article Examples

This research guide provides a brief introduction to MLA.

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What follows below are some examples of how to cite common article formats in MLA. For more detailed information and examples, please see Liberty University's Writing Center MLA citation examples or MLA's style site.

Journal article:

Fields, Ronald. "The Complexities of Noah in The Grapes of Wrath." The Steinbeck Review, vol. 6, no. 1,

2009, pp. 52-61. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41582098

 

Wilson, Christopher P. "'He Fell Just Short of Being News': Gatsby's Tabloid Shadows." American Literature,

vol. 84, no. 1, 2012, pp. 119-149.
 

Three or More Authors

McKeon, Seabird, et al. “Human Dimensions: Natural History as the Innate Foundation of Ecology.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, vol. 101, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1–7. JSTOR. www.jstor.org/stable/26853207.

Website:

Zhang, Sara. "The Last Children of Down Syndrome." The Atlantic. Dec. 2020, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/the-last-children-of-down-syndrome/616928/.

Newspaper or magazine article:

Scrimgeour, Andrew D. "Scribbling in the Margins." The New York Times, 2 Feb. 2014,  

www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/scribbling-in-the-margins.html?_r=0.