For Online Help With Writing in and Citing MLA, visit the OWL MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Also check out this short, concise, and USG-specific MLA guide.
Remember This Tip!
Most databases in GALILEO will automatically do citations for you! Use these as a starting point and ALWAYS check them against Harbrace or the OWL site!!
Here's how an In-Text MLA citation is formatted for a GALILEO article:
(Author)
Here's an example:
Comics took on a much darker tone in both writining and art during the deconstruction period following the release of "The Dark Knight" (Barr).
Here's how a Works-Cited MLA citation is formatted for a GALILEO article:
Last name, First Name. "Title of Article". Title of Journal, Magazine, Newspaper, etc Volume.Number (Date): Pages. DatabaseName. Database Provider. Format. Date.
Here's an example:
Barr, Brian. “Bats in the Belfry: Deconstructionism in mid-80's
Comics." Explicator 68.1 (2010):19-22. Academic Search Complete. EBSCOhost.
Web. 25 Mar. 2010.
And here's an example of an Opposing Viewpoints citation:
Luskin, Casey. "Textbooks Are Biased in Favor of Evolution." Are Textbooks Biased? Ed. Noah Berlatsky. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Rpt. from "Religion Doesn't Belong in Public Schools, But Debate Over Darwinian Evolution Does." Christian Science Monitor (16 Dec. 2010). Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 24 June 2013.