MLA Style: Article Citation

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This is the FORMAT for citing an article in a periodical (such as a newspaper or magazine):

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Source Day Month Year: pages. 

When citing the date, list day before month and use a three-letter abbreviation of the month (e.g. Jan., Mar., Aug.). If there is more than one edition available for that date (as in an early and late edition of a newspaper), identify the edition following the date (e.g. 17 May 1987, late ed.). 

This is an EXAMPLE:

Guterson, David.  "Endured:  One Week at the Mall

     of America." Harper's Aug. 1993: 49-56.

Because of the limitations of webpage formatting, you may not see the entry above with a "hanging indent."  You should, however, format your citations with a hanging indent as you see in the example page.   You do this in MSWord by highlighting your entire "Works Cited" page, selecting "Format," "Paragraph," "Indentation, Special (select "hanging"), By (enter ".5").   This is also a good time to format for double spacing, then your formatting is correct, no matter what changes you make to the text.

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