Although at NCSU you will primarily use the MLA form of citation, wherein you refer briefly and parenthetically to an author (and/or title) and page keyed to a Works Cited bibliography, you will often need to master an alternative form should you choose to submit work for publication. You may already have noticed in your review of serials in the MLA Guide to Periodicals that many professional academic journals require authors to use a style called "Chicago."  This is the form detailed in the Chicago Manual of Style.  Instead of parenthetical citation in the text, Chicago uses numbered endnotes or footnotes that combine explanatory and full bibliographic entries (for the first reference to the source). Chicago footnotes or endnotes contain all of the same bibliographic data as an MLA Works Cited entry, but in a different arrangement and indentation. This form is often favored by those who like the economy of combining bibliographic and explanatory information in one convenient package.

Reformat the answers to the following items from assignment 5 : for the Tuesday group, odd numbers 1-9; for the Thursday group, even numbers 2-10 in endnote "Chicago" stlye. See appendix A in the MLA Style Guide for examples. Note the reversal of the indent and the use of parentheses around publication information.  Although a real note would typically end in a page number, your answers will end with no specific page, as if you were citing the entire work.

Part II. More MLA practice: electronic sources.  Both Tuesday and Thursday groups will
Format these electronic media examples in proper MLA Bibliographic (not footnote/endnote) form:

1) this listserv communication
Date:    Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:04:17 +0100
From:    Andrew Pink
<andrew.pink@BTINTERNET.COM>
Subject: 18th century music in London
date of access: Tues, 24 Sep 2002
 18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion <C18-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
       To:
          Recipients of C18-L digests <C18-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU>

2) this entry in the online Oxford English Dictionary
"eleemosynary"
http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00073067

3) this academic website
Voice of the Shuttle
cultural studies page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse-netscape.asp?id=2709

4) this general interest website
Jane Austen Information Page
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html

5) this article in an online journal
Jon Mee (University College, Oxford): "Mopping Up Spilt Religion:
The Problem of Enthusiasm"
Romanticism on the Net
volume 25, February 2002
40 pars.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/25mee.html
 
 

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