MLA文献条目的著录格式及示例摘要

MLA文献条目的著录格式及示例摘要

1.Titles of Works in the Research Paper

1.1. Rules for capitalization

●Nouns, e.g. The Flowers of Europe

●Pronouns, e.g. Save Our Children

●Verbs, e.g. What Is Literature?

●Adjectives, e.g. The Ugly Duckling

●Adverbs, e.g. Only Slightly Corrupt

●Subordinating conjunctions, e.g. after, although, as if, as soon as

because, before, if , that, unless, until, when , where, while as in

One If by Land

1.2. Do not capitalize:

●Articles: a, an, the

●Prepositions: against, between, in, of, to, etc.

●Coordination conjunctions, e.g. and, but, for nor, or so, yet

●The to in infinitives

1.3. Italicized Titles

Book, play, long poem published as a book, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, film, television program, compact disc, audio-cassette, record album, ballet, opera, painting, sculpture, ship, aircraft, spacecraft.

1.4. Titles in Quotation Marks

Newspaper article, magazine article, encyclopedia article, essay in a book, short story, poem, chapter in a book, episode of the television program, song, lecture.

1.5. Titles and Quotations within Titles

●“Romeo and Juliet and Renaissance Politics”

●“The Uncanny Theology of …A Good Man Is Hard to Find‟”

● a book about a book:

Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu‟s “the Tale of Genji”

1.6. Exceptions

1.6.1.Sacred Writings

●Bible

●Gospels

●Talmud

●Old Testament

●Genesis, etc.

1.6.

ws, Acts, and Similar Political Documents

●Declaration of Independence

●Bill of Rights

●Treaty of Trianon, etc.

1.6.3.Series

●Bollingen Series

●Masterpiece Theatre

2.MLA Documentation Style

2.1. Bibliography

2.1.1. Placement of Bibliography

●end of the paper

●on a new page

●continuing the page numbers of the text.

2.1.2. Format of Bibliography

●center the title, Bibliography, an inch from the top of the page,

double-space between the title and the first entry

●if an entry runs more than one line, indent the subsequent lines

five spaces from the left margin

● 1.5 space

2.1.

3. Arrangement of Entries

●alphabetize entries by the author‟s last name, using the

letter-by-letter system

2.2. Parenthetical Documentation 夹注的格式

2.2.1. Basic Format

e.g.

Close to each quotation or reference appears a parenthetical note which "contains only enough information to enable readers to find the source in the works-cited list" (Gibaldi 105).

2.2.2. Citing Two or More Works by the Same Author of Authors

In a parenthetical reference to one of two or more works by the same author, put a comma after the author‟s last name and add the title of the work (if brief) or a shortened version and the relent page reference, for example, “(Frye, Double Vision 85)” or “ (Durant and Durant, Age 214-48).”

2.3 Format of Entries

2.3.1 Basic Entry

●Sequence Number (1 2 3 4 )

●Author's Last name, Author's First name.

●Title of Document. (italic for books & quotation marks for theses)

●Title of Complete Work (if applicable).