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MLA 9th Edition: Article from an Online Scholarly Journal

Help with formatting an MLA research project, creating a Works Cited page and citing sources in the text.

Article (Online Scholarly Journal) -- Template

Works Cited

Author. “Article Title.” Journal Title, vol. #, no. #, Publication Date,

Page(s), DOI or permalink or URL.

Article (Online Scholarly Journal) -- Citation -- Examples

Works Cited

Huang, Sui. “Where to Go: Breaking the Symmetry in Cell Motility.”

PLOS Biology, vol. 14, no. 5, 2016,

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371

/journal.pbio.1002463.

Rota, Stefano Fogelberg. “Queen Christina’s Heroic Virtue and Its

Religious Implications.” Early Modern Culture Online

(EMCO), vol. 3, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-13, journal.uia.no/index.php

/EMCO/article/view/11.

Website (Article or Page w/ No Author) -- In-Text Citation-- Examples

"A direct quote from the article" (Huang). According to Rota,

"A direct quote from this article; however, only include the page

 number if the electronic article has the publication page numbers" (3).

or

Typically, a paraphrased sentence will have the author's name

and the page number, if available, at the end. When paraphrasing from

an article with a named author, cite the author and list the publication

page number when available at the end  (Rota 15).