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p0lar_bear
December 9th, 2009, 10:36 AM
Anyone around here familiar with MLA citation standards?

I have a ship passenger manifest I need to cite as a source of info in a research paper, however I don't know what kind of source it is. It's a manifest from a German steamboat company in the 1900s, which I found on the Ellis Island site.

The steamboat company isn't a government body, and I don't think the Ellis Island Foundation is, either. It's not an unpublished manuscript, as the site sells copies of the manifest in print. It's almost like a table/chart, but not quite.

Basing this off the list shown here: http://noodletools.com/noodlebib/express.php

halp?
sdavis117
December 9th, 2009, 10:56 AM
First off Polar, I LOVE YOU FOR POSTING THAT SITE! I need to turn in 6 sources for a paper on Elizabethan Torture and Execution this Friday, all in MLA form, and the site I was gonna use to shit out the MLA citations doesn't exist (since yesterday).

Second off, it sounds like a pamphlet or a press release to me.
Kornman00
December 9th, 2009, 11:05 AM
Anyone around here familiar with MLA citation standards?

Back when I used to be in school, yeah.

IAWTP. Fuck MLA.

Other than that, I have nothing useful to say :neckbeard:
Limited
December 9th, 2009, 11:11 AM
I have to use Harvard referencing, those bastards!!
musicman888
December 9th, 2009, 11:20 AM
Polar, you are in a bit of luck, as I have had to write in MLA format since high school (ugh). I'll see what I can do to help, but I may need to verify some things from you in PM's. :)
Cojafoji
December 9th, 2009, 01:00 PM
when all else fails polar, use the basic format.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
Con
December 9th, 2009, 01:21 PM
Title [chart] Publisher, [City] : year

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/619921
click "cite this"
DEElekgolo
December 9th, 2009, 01:40 PM
Easybib?
Abdurahman
December 9th, 2009, 02:01 PM
Easybib?

Yeah! I just used that a month ago! It makes your citations for you! And I got 100% on that works cited page so it made the citations right!

http://www.easybib.com/
p0lar_bear
December 9th, 2009, 02:15 PM
I have tools and resources to write an MLA citation. The problem lies in I don't know what the hell kind of source a passenger manifest is.


Title [chart] Publisher, [City] : year

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/619921
click "cite this"

I love you.
Amit
December 9th, 2009, 04:24 PM
Yeah! I just used that a month ago! It makes your citations for you! And I got 100% on that works cited page so it made the citations right!

http://www.easybib.com/


Title [chart] Publisher, [City] : year

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/619921
click "cite this"

Good shit. used both before.
Huero
December 9th, 2009, 04:25 PM
i was penalized for bolding the titles of each section of an essay
fuck MLA
Yoko
December 9th, 2009, 05:22 PM
bolding the titles of each section of an essay
That's APA, hth. Except for italicizing instead of bolding, you have to title each different part of your paper in APA. Plus APA is much harder to cite within the paper than MLA, imo.

also, www.easybib.com
Con
December 10th, 2009, 01:25 AM
CSE ftw
Aerowyn
December 10th, 2009, 02:53 AM
I don't have a problem with MLA shit anymore, I've had to write entirely too many papers with MLA sources @___@

Dropping my citation method in:
http://citationmachine.net/
Timo
December 10th, 2009, 04:10 AM
I have to use APA referencing here, it sucks. THere's so many different variations for citing the same thing online. Having to cite a quotation in a book written by multiple authors for instance sucks major balls.
paladin
December 10th, 2009, 04:49 AM
I don't have a problem with MLA shit anymore, I've had to write entirely too many papers with MLA sources @___@

Dropping my citation method in:
http://citationmachine.net/

This site rocks, but it has a very limited selection of different types of citations. Fortunately, most of my sources so far this semester have been books and web documents.