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Citing an Academic Journal (Click on the text for more information)
. Psychological Inquiry, vol. 18, no. 4, 2007, pp. 255–258 . JSTOR, ww.jstor.org/stable/20447394. Accessed 22 Aug. 2022.
How do I cite a film?
The basic format for a film is as follows:
Title. Directed by First name Last name of director, Distributor, Release date.
For example:
Infernal Affairs. Directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, Media Asia Films, 1992.
If you discuss the directors of the film directly in your work, list the directors at the beginning of the works cited entry:
Lau, Andrew, and Alan Mak, directors. Infernal Affairs. Media Asia Films, 1992.
You may also want to include other contributors, depending on what aspects of the film you are discussing in your writing.
Infernal Affairs. Directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, performance by Andy Lau and Tony Leung, Media Asia Films, 1992.
Some other common contribution details might include: Adapted by, Directed by, Edited by, Illustrated by, Performance by, Translated by, Created by.
If you need to cite a particular version of a film you can do this as follows:
Lucas, George, director. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. 1977. Special edition, Lucasfilm, 1997.
Cite dialogue using quotes or block quotes as needed. If using block quotes, include the characters' names and indent second and subsequent lines of dialogue by the same character slightly further than the 1.25cm required by the block quote.
When citing audio or video works, give the time or time range in the in-text citation, in hours, minutes, and seconds, separated by a colon e.g. (Infernal Affairs 01:16:34-38), (“Life Hacks I Learnt from Youtube” 00:5:34-38).
How do I cite a screenshot?
See also How do I cite a screenshot or frame capture in a caption and in my works-cited list? on the MLA Style Center.
While Bresson makes repeated use of hands to convey meaning, Clair uses feet (see fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Still from "And Then There Were None (1945)" (Clair 21:31).
How do I cite an interview?
Use this format for any interview you conduct yourself:
Interviewee(s) Last Name, First name. Interview with the author. Day Month Year of interview.
For example:
Chomsky, Noam. Interview with the author. 11 July 2017.
For an interview that has been published online, use the name of the interviewee as the author, and the title of the interview as the title if published (in “quotation marks”), otherwise describe it as in the example below (without any formatting):
Zinkievich, Craig. Interview by Gareth Von Kallenbach. Skewed & Reviewed, 25 Apr. 2009, www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/1056940-skewed-%2526-reviewed-interviews-craig. Accessed 15 May. 2023.
How do I cite a video game?
Title of Game. Game developer’s name, date of release. Platform.
For example:
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. PUBG Corporation, 2017. Android game.
If you wish to discuss the role of a particular contributor, use this format:
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Directed by Brendan Greene, PUBG Corporation, 2017. Android game.
Visit the MLA Style guide for more examples.
Works Cited
Clair, René. “And Then There Were None (1945).” YouTube, uploaded by Public Domain Films, 16 Aug. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydCqPEoQ-jI. Accessed 2 Sept. 2022.
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