MLA requires you to abbreviate the months in your publication date. Abbreviate them like this (add the period!
January = Jan.
February = Feb.
March = Mar.
April = Apr.
May = May
June = June
July = July
August = Aug.
September = Sept.
October = Oct.
November = Nov.
December = Dec.
| Photograph or Artwork (Viewed In-Person) | |
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Components Creator's Last name, Full First Name. Title of Photo or Artwork. Date of Creation, Name of Institution or Museum, Institution or Museum City. |
Example Cameron, Julia Margaret. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. |
| Note: Paintings and sculptures are cited in the same way as photographs | |
| Photograph or Artwork (Website) | |
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Components Creator's Last name, Full First Name. Title of photo. Date of Creation. Name of Website, URL. |
Example Silver, Walter. Factory. 1986. New York Public Library Digital Collections, digitalcollections.nypl.org/ items/ 51fd9310-ea71-0131-8221-58d385a7bbd0. |
| Note: Paintings and sculptures are cited in the same way as photographs. | |
| Illustrated Work or Cartoon | |
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Components Last name, Full First Name. "Title of Work." Title of Publisher, Date of Publication. URL. |
Example Beaton, Kate. "The Secret Garden." Hark! A Vagrant, www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=350. Accessed 17 Jan. 2017. |
| PowerPoint Slides | |
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Components Creator or Author Last name, Full First Name. Title of Work. Date of Creation. Name of Class, taught by Professor Full First Name Last Name, Date, Name of College or University. Slide Number.
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Example Monet, Claude. Bridge over a Pond of Water Lillies. 1899. Introduction to the History of Art, taught by Jane Ford, 4 Apr. 2016, Bates College. Slide 2 |