MLA Style Guide

MLA Entire Paper

MLA Works Cited

Color Guide for Format
Blue text	Replace with information from source
Purple bold text	Text required by the MLA style
[Gray text in brackets]	Tips

Journal MLA Works Cited

Must include volume.issue number (Year) DO NOT include month or season
If the journal has only issue numbers and no volume numbers, then cite the issue number alone.
If a journal name begins with The, A, or An, then omit that initial article when citing the journal.

Format:

Last, First M. "Article Title." Journal Title Volume.Issue (Year published): pp-pp. Print.

Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50. Print.

URLs are no longer required. Only include URL if reader will be unlikely to find article otherwise or teacher requires it.
Library Database: Provide the same information as you would for a printed journal article and add the name of the database in italics, and indicate the publication medium as Web and the date of access.
NOTE - If there are no page numbers, or if the page numbers for each article in a journal appear in a new sequence for each item rather than continuously across the entire issue, write n. pag.

Format:

Last, First M. "Article Title." Journal Title Volume.Issue (Year published): pp-pp. Library Database [if available] . Web. Date accessed.

Dolby, Nadine. "Research in Youth Culture and Policy: Current Conditions and Future Directions." Social Work and Society: The International Online-Only Journal 6.2 (2008): n. pag. Web. 20 May 2009.
Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 595-600. Web. 8 Feb. 2009.