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Views on Mental Illness: 1950s v. Today: Parts of a Citation

This guide will guide your research of disorders you have been assigned. It will also support you in the creation of a lesson plan you will use to teach your peers about the disorder and how its relevance might have changed.

Parts of an MLA Citation

Look for these elements to create your citation:

Author

Title of Source (Article title, book title)

Container 1:

     Title of container (Newspaper title, Journal title),

     Other contributors (editors, illustrators),

     Version,

     Number (volume, issue),

     Publisher,

     Publication date,

     Location (Database name, URL).

Container 2:

     Title of container (Newspaper title, Journal title),

     Other contributors (editors, illustrators),

     Version,

     Number (volume, issue),

     Publisher,

     Publication date,

     Location (Database name, URL).

What is a Container?

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