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MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Source." Container 1, volume
number (vol.), issue number (no.), Month or Season, Year, pp.
Container 2, DOI or permalink. Accessed date.
Note:
Including a database name before the URL or DOI is optional. (See "New Formatting.") Including a date of access is also optional. Check with your instructor. Abbreviate all months except May, June, and July to the first three letters and a period: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec.
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Fetters, Cassandra. "The Continual Search for Sisterhood: Narcissim, Projection,
and Intersubjective Disruptions in Toni Morrison's Sula and Feminist
Communities." Meridians: Feminisim, Race, Transnationalism,
vol. 13, no. 2, 2015, pp. 28-55. EbscoHost,
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=keh&AN=
114940601&site=ehost-live.
Without
Fetters, Cassandra. "The Continual Search for Sisterhood: Narcissim, Projection,
and Intersubjective Disruptions in Toni Morrison's Sula and Feminist
Communities." Meridians: Feminisim, Race, Transnationalism,
vol. 13,no. 2, 2015, pp. 28-55, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=keh&AN=114940601&site=ehost-live.
Article with Permanent Link or Stable URL
Note: Spell out seasons and capitalize them in Works Cited citations.
Sklansky, David Alan. "Not Your Father's Police Department: Making Sense of
the New Demographics of Law Enforcement." The Journal of Criminal
Law and Criminology, vol. 96, no. 3, Spring 2006, pp. 1209-1243,
www.jstor.org/stable/40042806.
Article with a DOI
Son, Ki Pyo. "Symbol of Death in Lessing's 'To Room Nineteen' and in Morrison's
Sula Seen from the Perspective of Archetypal Psychology." Journal of English
Language and Literature, vol. 55, no. 6, Jan. 2009, pp. 1221-1244,
doi: 15794/jell.2009.55.6.014.
With a date of access
Sklansky, David Alan. "Not Your Father's Police Department: Making Sense of
the New Demographics of Law Enforcement." The Journal of Criminal
Law and Criminology, vol. 96, no. 3, Spring 2006, pp. 1209-1243,
www.jstor.org/stable/40042806. Accessed 15 July 2016.
Without
Sklansky, David Alan. "Not Your Father's Police Department: Making Sense of
the New Demographics of Law Enforcement." The Journal of Criminal
Law and Criminology, vol. 96, no. 3, Spring 2006, pp. 1209-1243,
www.jstor.org/stable/40042806.
Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Source." Container,
volume number (vol.), issue number (no.), Month or
Season, Year, pp.
Note: Abbreviate all months except May, June, and July to the first three letters and a period: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov.
Rahavi, M. Marit, and Sonja B. Starr. "Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal
Sentences." Journal of Political Economy, vol. 122, no. 6, Dec. 2014,
pp. 1320-1354.