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Magazine Article

Basic Citation

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine, Publication date, Stable URL. Date of access.

Works Cited

Sedaris, David. "Standing By." The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2012, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/09/standing-by. Accessed 14 Jan. 2023.

In-Text Citation

(Sedaris)

Thesis or Dissertation

Basic Citation

Author's last name, author's first name. Title of the publication. Year Published. Publishing institution, type of degree. Website name, stable URL.

Works Cited
Stabile, Nicholas. New Housing Development and the Impacts on Rental Prices and Housing Cost Burden in the DC Housing Market. 2021. Georgetown University, Master's Thesis.

In-Text Citation

(Stabile 12)

Online Lecture

Basic Citation

"Lecture Title." Course name, written/taught by Author first name Author last name, school, date, location of Lecture. Stable URL if available.

Works Cited

"Queer Care: LGBTQ Youth in Child Welfare." UCLA Luskin Lecture Series, taught by Chris Beam. University of California, Los Angeles, 5 Mar. 2019.  Los Angeles, CA.

In-Text Citation

(Beam)

Indirect/Secondary Sources

If you are citing a passage or piece of information that is itself being cited from outside source in your text, you would cite the text you have access to as you normally would. The only difference would be in the in-text citation, which includes qtd. Note that the MLA Handbook discourages secondary citation, and encourages writers to view and cite original sources whenever possible.

In-Text Citation

(qtd. in Jones-Jang 371)