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.