Modern Language Association, 1999. Please refer to the Rice Library's guidelines for Citing Electronic Resources , if you are citing a Web site or a full-text article from an online database. Proper guidelines for MLA, APA and Turabian citation styles are listed. 14 March 2001. When doing research, you must use a standard citation format to identify the information you have used and give credit to its creator.
Consistency is crucial.
Works are generally identified by standard elements including, but not limited to, author's name, year or date of publication, title or source, place of publication, and publisher. The title of the source should be either underlined or italicized. Titles of articles do not need to be underlined or italicized. Volume numbers, however, are to be underlined along with the source. A period and two spaces follow each element.