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Using MLA format, how do you cite a document from a textbook?

Using MLA format, how do you cite a document from a textbook?
I have a handout on how to, but I forgot it at school.

Using MLA format, how do you cite a document from a textbook?

Got an A+ in college composition. Let me go check my book.

Using MLA format, how do you cite a document from a textbook?

You need to Google it. There are far too many choices for me to get into here, as it depends on the number of authors and about 30 other factors. You should check to see if your school makes a Handbook available.

Well, I found out my first question, and now I have another.

How do you cite, using MLA format, a authorless web page in text?

there are tons of variables...I would say it is either editor or multiauthor...
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/legacylib/mlahcc.html

that website will give you lots of options. pick the best fit.

Well, I found out my first question, and now I have another.

How do you cite, using MLA format, a authorless web page in text?
whats the website? I may be able to help you out a bit if I see it

there are tons of variables...I would say it is either editor or multiauthor...
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/legacylib/mlahcc.html

that website will give you lots of options. pick the best fit.

That site only has WC cites. I need in text.

http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/365/
That's the website I need.

That site only has WC cites. I need in text.

http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/365/
That's the website I need.
did you scroll down the page? The very bottom has a link called "citations and Links". That has your answer.

MLA Style: "Oyez: Stafford v. Wallace." The Oyez Project. Ed. Jerry Goldman. 258 U.S. 495 (1922), . 02 February 2006 <http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/365/>.

Here's what my handbook says:
Include in your citation whatever information you can reasonably obtain: the title of the Internet site (underlined); the editor of the site (if available); the version number of the source (if applicable); the date of the electronic publication (or update); the number or range of pages, paragraphs or sections (if available); the name of any institution or sponsor; the date of access to teh source; and the URL.

MLA requires that you enclose the electronic address (URL) within angle brackets to distinguish the address from the punctuation in the rest of the citation.

Here's an example they give for a document within a website:
"D-Day: June 7th, 1944." The History Channel Online. 1999. History Channel. 7 June 2002 <http://historychannel.com/thisday/997690.html>.

Hope that helps you out.

Here's what my handbook says:

Here's an example they give for a document within a website:


Hope that helps you out.
oh, how I loathe that book.

APA is even worse.

And since I'm English ed, the English dept. requires MLA, education requires APA, and I usually hand in some weird mix of the two which forces the profs to look at me weird untill they realize why I do it (all other eng. ed.s do it too)

Whats MLA stand for again? I don't think we use that over here (Europe) much.

Whats MLA stand for again? I don't think we use that over here (Europe) much.
Modern Language Association. It gets used slightly more than APA (American Psychological Association) over here, although APA is, IMHO, more professional.

what is used in Europe?

Emm.... I can't remember the name right now.... i'm going to look it up... be back in a jiffy.

http://www.mla.org/publications/style_faq

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html

Have fun!

Hmmm.... if we were talking about the same thing (citation in bibliography right?)

Then the style we use in my college is...."University of Chicago footnote style"

That make sense to you? :confused:

Hmmm.... if we were talking about the same thing (citation in bibliography right?)

Then the style we use in my college is...."University of Chicago footnote style"

That make sense to you? :confused:

gotcha. I think I used that once...and only once. and hated it. lol

I try to stick to APA if I have the choice, but usually get forced to use MLA and end up with a hybrid. I do still use footnotes/endnotes instead of parenthetical tho. I'm old school like that.

Bah, nevermind. Differenct Schools/Colleges in the University use slightly differing methods.

English uses MLA
History and Politics use something else.
Nevermind.