How to Cite a Lab Manual in MLA Format

In-Text Citation

• 1

  Give the manual author's last name. Present it either in the body of your sentence or in parentheses after your sentence. For example:

  Leith asks users

  or

  Users should (Leith)

• 2

  Give the page number or numbers in the manual you are citing.

  Leith asks users (33-4)

  or

  Users should (Leith 33-4)

• 3

  Place quotation marks around any text you take directly from the manual.

  Leith writes that the "computerized mice serve several functions" (33-4).

Works-Cited Entry

• 4

  Write the manual author's last and first name.

  Leith, Charles.

• 5

  Write the title of the manual in italics.

  Leith, Charles. Basic Psychology.

• 6

  Give the following information related to the lab manual's publication: the place of publication, the name of the publisher and the year of publication.

  Leith, Charles. Basic Psychology. Marquette, MI: Northern Michigan UP, 2004.

• 7

  Write "Print" to specify that you are citing a print source.