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Brown - Greek God and Goddesses: Citing Sources MLA

Middle School Library Skills and Research Handbook

Example Source Card & Note Card

 Examples of Source Cards and Note Cards

Source Card

Database                                                                           1

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Newton, David E. “Magnetic Levitation.” The Gale Encyclopedia

      of Science. edited by K. Lee Lang and Brenda Wilmoth

     Lerner, 4th ed., Gale, 2008, Student Resources in Context,

      ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/.

 

 

Note Card

Maglev Trains – History                                                      1

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  • Designed in 1907

  • First designer was Charles Scott

  • Ran on magnets

MLA Source and Note Card Examples

How to cite an Internet Article

Internet Articles

Author. "Article Title." Title of Website, Publisher (if given)Publication date, URL.

Author

Coin, Paul. “Maglev.” Science for the Ages, 12 May 2013, science.ages/education.com.

Organization

Iraq’s Children 2007.  UNICEF, 11 Feb. 2008, www.unicef.org/inf/files/Iraqus_2017.pdf.

Publisher – no author

“Anxiety and Panic Disorders.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Mental

Health and Research, 13 Jan. 2015, www.mayoclinic.or/diseases.

No publication date – use date of access

“Global Warming.” Coalition for Planet Earth. Earth Science Foundation,

www.planetearch.com. Accessed 23 July 2018.

Citing Images

You would cite an image as follows:

Author (last, first). "Title of digital image." Title of website, date, URL. Accessed date. 

Note: If the image is a Google Image -- Do not cite Google Images as the Title of the website or publisher. Instead, click on the picture and use the information from the website that is hosting the picture. 

If the image does not have an author - leave it blank

If the image does not have a title - make up a description of the image, but do not put it in quotation marks. 

If the image does not have a date - leave it blank, but make sure you put the access date at the end of the citation.