MLA Handbook by The eighth edition of the MLA Handbook has made some changes in how citations are formatted. It uses the idea of "containers" to help writers indicate more clearly where they found resources that could be used in print or in various places online. The template is meant to help you organize relevant information. The eighth edition recommends that you use a URL or DOI for articles accessed online. If they are accessed from a particular database (rather than just the journal website), include the database name as well, as the title of container 2.You can check the Handbook itself or the Purdue OWL MLA Guide for details.
The following is a color-coded example of MLA Style for journal article accessed from library databases.
Zbib: Zotero's online tool to create citations
NCSU Citation Builder: Helps you fill in all the necessary information for a citation depending on the source type and citation style. More reliable than generators that depend on a link because they might not find all the information you have on the source.
Research and documentation in the digital age: Features sample student papers and 325 documentation models that guide students as they cite common sources and newer sources – such as blogs, podcasts, online videos, and reposted Web content – in MLA, Chicago, and CSE styles. Whitman College Library Reference Collection (ZA4375 .H327 2015 )
EasyBib and other sites can be helpful in quickly creating citations for you, but they depend on the information you give them, and might not always pull the correct data or formatting. If you do use sites like this, always look over the citations it gives you to make sure they look right. The same is true for the citations created by Sherlock! When in doubt, tools like the NCSU Citation Builder will be much more likely to give you a proper citation, because they depend on your input of all elements, which does mean it takes a little more time.
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