Remember to use a hanging indent for your Works Cited page (not shown in these examples).
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Author. "Title of the Short Work." Site Title. Name of the Sponsor, Date of publication or last update. url.
Civil War Trust. "Abraham Lincoln." Civil War Trust: Saving America's Civil War Battlefields. History and Google, 2014. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/topics/abraham-lincoln.
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Author last name, Author first name. "Title of the Article." Title of the Journal Volume and issue numbers separated by a period (year of publication): page numbers of article. location (url, doi, etc.)
Kirchner, Michael J. "Supporting Student Veteran Transition to College and Academic Success." Adult Learning 26.3 (2015): 116-123. www.jstor.org/stable/4578135.
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Author last name, Author first name. Title. City of publication: Publisher's name, Date of publication.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books-Random House, 1984.
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Author
MLA does not recommend treating the AI tool as an author.
Title
Describe what was generated by the AI tool, such as listing the prompt.
Title of Container
Name the AI tool used (e.g., ChatGPT).
Version
Name the version of the AI tool as specifically as possible. (e.g. ChatGPT 3.5) This can provide information about a specific date to the version.
Publisher
Name the company that made the tool (e.g. OpenAI).
Date
Give the date the content was generated.
Location / URL
Give the general URL for the tool.
When the author is not named in your signal phrase, provide their last name and the page number(s) in parentheses.
One researcher notes that, " the ideal program would retain body-worn camera (BWC) footage for months or even years, the cost of video storage can become prohibitive very quickly" (Pagliarella 534).
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If the author is named in the signal phrase, finish with the page number in parentheses.
Chris Pagliarella notes that, "the ideal program would retain body-worn camera (BWC) footage for months or even years, the cost of video storage can become prohibitive very quickly" (534).
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You have two choices: a) Provide all of the authors' last names plus the page number(s), or b) provide only the first author's name followed by et al (Latin for "and others") and the page number(s).
a) Despite enthusiasm surrounding body-worn cameras (BWCs), "there has been no research on law enforcement command staff perceptions of BWCs (Smykla, Crow, Crichlow, and Snyder 424).
b) Despite enthusiasm surrounding body-worn cameras (BWCs), "there has been no research on law enforcement command staff perceptions of BWCs (Smykla et al.424).
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