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Citing Bibliographic Sources: MLA: Articles/Reviews

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MLA @ WIU Libraries

Copies of the full MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 9th ed. live in multiple places at WIU Libraries. The call number is always LB2369.G53 2021.

  • Malpass Library Reference Desk
  • Quad Cities Library Reference Desk
  • Malpass Library Reserve Desk

Online MLA Assistance

For more information on how to cite sources using MLA, visit the following resources:

Periodical Articles

Article in a Journal, with DOI

Franken, Jason R.V., Miguel Gómez, and R. Brent Ross. "Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Wine Regions." Journal of Wine Economics, vol. 13, no. 4, Nov. 2018, pp. 419-428. https://doi.org/10.1017/jwe.2018.37

     Magazine Article

Andrango, Graciela, and Trent Blare. "Functional Foods:  Fad or Path to Prosperity?" Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm & Resource Issues, vol. 85, no. 4, 2020, pp. 1-2.

       Magazine Article--No Author

"Two-Minute Drill." College Athletics & the Law, vol. 19, no. 4, July 2022, p. 2

  Newspaper Article

Hallwas, John E. "Our First Historical Society, During the 1920s." McDonough County Voice, 21 Nov. 2020, p. A4.

Review Articles

Untitled Review Article

Cabal-Jiménez, Munia. Review of El Teatro Cubano Colonial y la Caracterización Lingüístico-Cultural de Sus Personajes, by Sergio Valdés Bernal. Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 52, no. 2, Spring 2019, pp. 216-217.

Separately Titled Review Article

(Note: The article below is a review of the book Biofictions: Race, Genetics and the Contemporary Novel by Josie Gill, but since the review has its own title, MLA does not include the book title and author in the citation.)

Hamner, Everett. “Wanna Be an Antiracist? Keep Science and Fiction Entangled.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 48, no. 33, 2021, pp. 582-585.