Citation Exercise #2 (online)

Learning citation is not about memorizing the various formats that need to be used. Getting the format correct is simply a matter of copying from the examples. Knowing WHAT information is required and being able to understand the examples in your handbook/textbook are what is important. Thus, this exercise will emphasize the sometimes subtle differences in the various formats. Read the examples in your handbook, textbook, or the citation guide available from the website to figure out the proper answer.

This is the online version of this exercise. Filling this out and clicking on the submit button will send me what you have entered as an email. If you like, you can choose to print the hard-copy version and submit it via regular mail or your learning center.

You must fill out these three boxes for this form to work:

You have a book titled The Narrows written by Ann Petry and published in 1999 by Mariner Books located in Boston, MA. This book was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1953.

1. Finish the MLA citation for this book showing that it is a republished book.

Petry, Ann. The Narrows. . Boston: Mariner, 1999.

2. Finish the APA citation for this book showing that it is a republished book.

Petry, A. (1999). The narrows. Boston: Mariner Books. .

You have a book titled Battle Royale, written by Koushun Takami. The book was originally written in Japanese, and was translated by Yuji Oniki.
(do not use the Penguin Handbook for this one – its example is not right for this situation).

3. Show how MLA would add the translation information.

Takami, Koushun. Battle Royale. . San Francisco : Viz, 2003.

4. Show how APA would add the translation information

Takami, K. (2003). Battle royale. San Francisco: Viz, LLC.

You used a book with two authors, Pamela J. Annas and Robert C. Rosen.

5. Write the proper MLA citation for this book with two authors.

. Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.

6. Write the proper APA citation for this book with two authors.

. (2000). Literature and society: An introduction to fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

You need to cite the Fifth Edition of the MLA Handbook.

7. Write the proper MLA form for the edition information.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. .New York: Modern Language Association, 1999.

8. Write the proper APA form for the edition information.

Gibaldi, J. (1999). MLA handbook for writers of research papers. New York: Modern Language Association.

You are citing an article from a journal that uses continous pagination. It is the December 2006 issue, also identified as being Volume 34, Number 2.

9. Write a proper MLA citation for this article showing how to identify the issue it is in.

Blaauw-Hara, Mark. “Why Our Students Need Instruction in Grammar, and How We Should Go About It.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College : 165-178.

10. Write a proper APA citation for this article showing how to identify the issue it is in.

Blaauw-Hara, M. (). Why our students need instruction in grammar, and how We should go about it. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, , 165-178.

You are citing an article from a journal that uses separate pagination. It is identified as the Volume 8, Number 4, 2001 issue.

11. Write the proper MLA way to identify which issue the article is in.

Arnhart, Larry. “Evolution and the New Creationism: A Proposal for Compromise.” Skeptic : 46-52.

12. Write the proper APA way to identify which issue the article is in.

Arnhart, L. (). Evolution and the New Creationism: A proposal for compromise. Skeptic, , 46-52.

You are citing a periodical article that runs from pages 130-135, then jumps to pages 172-173.

13. Write the proper MLA way to identify the page numbers for the article

McClusky, Mark. “The Righteous Fury of Dick Pound.” Wired Jan. 2007: .

14. Write the proper APA way to identify the page numbers for the article.

McClusky, M. (2007, January). The righteous fury of Dick Pound. Wired, 15, .

You are citing an original anthology selection – published for the first time in the anthology Give Our Regard to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics, which was edited by Sean Howe.

15. Write a proper MLA citation for this article showing how to write the editor information for an anthology.

Hultkrans, Andrew. “Steve Ditko’s Hands.” Give our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics. . New York: Pantheon, 2004. 208-225.

16.Write a proper APA citation for this article showing how to write the editor information for an anthology.

Hultkrans, A. (2004). Steve Ditko’s hands. , Give our regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on comics. (pp. 208-225). New York: Pantheon.

You are citing a REPRINTED selection from an anthology. The essay was originally published in the February 7, 2003 issue of Science.

17. Write a proper MLA citation for this article showing how to include the original publication information.

Nestle, Marion. “The Ironic Politics of Obesity.” . Rpt. In Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 2nd Brief Ed. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Longman, 2007. 388-389.

18. Write a proper APA citation for this article showing how to include the original publication information.

Nestle, M. (2007). The ironic politics of obesity. In L. Behrens & L. J. Rosen (Eds.), Writing and reading across the curriculum (2nd Brief ed.) (pp. 388-389). New York: Longman. .

You have a webpage that you found that you want to cite. You accessed it on June 5, 2001 at http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~jbrown/flagel.html

19. Write an MLA citation for this website.

Brown, John C. “What the Heck is a Bacterium’s ‘Tail’?” Bugs in the News. July 1996. U of Kansas. 5 June 2001.<>.
note that the angle brackets are already here -- don't put them in your answer or it won't come through properly on email

20. Write an APA citation for this website.

Brown, J. C. (1996, July). What the heck is a bacterium’s ‘tail’? Retrieved June 5, 2001 from University of Kansas, Bugs in the News Website: .

You have found an article that you want to use from a periodical called Science News. You found that article in the WilsonWeb database found at http://hwwilsonweb.com on December 18, 2006. The URL for the article is http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/results/results_single_ftPES.jhtml

21. Show what two pieces of information need to be added to the basic MLA periodical citation if it's from a database. (you don't know who provided access in this example, so leave that part out)

Bower, Bruce. “The Predator’s Gaze.” Science News 170(2006) : 379-381. . <>.
note that the angle brackets are already here -- don't put them in your answer or it won't come through properly on email

22. Show the retrieval statement that needs to be added to the basic APA periodical citation if it’s from a database (the original page numbers aren’t indicated in the database version, so the [electronic version] option doesn’t fit).

Bower, B. (2006). The predator’s gaze. Science News, 170, 379-381.

Now imagine that you got this article from the Science News website. You accessed the article on December 15, 2006. The specific URL for the online version of the article is http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061209/bob9.asp

23. Show what two pieces of information need to be added to the basic MLA citation when it’s from a website, not a database.

Bower, Bruce. “The Predator’s Gaze.” Science News 170(2006) : 379-381. . <>.
note that the angle brackets are already here -- don't put them in your answer or it won't come through properly on email

24. Show the retrieval statement that needs to be added to the basic APA citation when it’s from a website, not a database.

Bower, B. (2006). The predator’s gaze. Science News, 170, 379-381. .