Review

Print review

Works cited entry

Gleick, Elizabeth. “The Burdens of Genius.” Rev. of The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt. Time 4 Dec. 2000: 171. Print.

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Works cited entry

Denby, David. “On the Battlefield.” Rev. of The Hurricane, dir. Norman Jewison. New Yorker 10 Jan. 2000: 90-92. Print.

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Explain

Give as much of the following information as is available:

  • the name of the reviewer

  • the title of the review (if there is one), in quotation marks

  • the words “Rev. of,”

  • the title of the work reviewed, followed by a comma

  • the author or director of the work reviewed

  • publication information for the publication in which the review appears (article in a magazine, article in a journal, article in a newspaper)

  • the medium (“Print”)

Online review

Works cited entry

Greer, W. R. “Who‘s the Fairest One of All?” Rev. of Mirror, Mirror, by Gregory Maguire. Reviewsofbooks.com. Reviewsofbooks.com, 2003. Web. 26 Oct. 2009.

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Explain

  • Cite as a short work from a Web site or from a database, if you found the review in a database.

Also see Article in a newspaper (online), Article in a weekly magazine (online), Article in a journal (online).

Directory to MLA works cited models

Citation at a glance: Article in a periodical (MLA)

Exercise: MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources

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