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MLA referencing in a nutshell
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in your textMLA citations are in author-page format (Hickey 177). Works can also be cited as Stephen Barrett, or you can cite Tamao Nakahara as your source (145), with the first forename in prose citations (outside parentheses). For repeat citations, you can refer to Nakahara again without the forename (150).
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at the end of your documentProvide a bibliography listing all the works cited in your text, with full references, in author-title format and in A-Z order. The MLA style specifies that the reference list should be labelled 'Works Cited':Barrett, Stephen. “Ten Ways to Avoid Being Quacked.” Quackwatch, Center for Inquiry, 2 Apr. 1997, https://quackwatch.org/related/avoid.
Hickey, Michael A. Get Real: Reality and Mystery. UP of America, 2011.
Nakahara, Tamao. “Making Up Monsters: Set and Costume Design in Horror Films.” Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema, edited by Ian Conrich, I.B. Tauris, 2010, pp. 139-52.
Silvia, Paul J. “Interest: The Curious Emotion.” Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 17, no. 1, Feb. 2008, pp. 57-60.The examples above are for a web page, a book, a chapter in a book, and a journal article.
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