Generate Modern Language Association 9th Edition citations for Federal Bills
Glossary of Selected Terms
Annotation |
A short review or description of what you are citing. |
Date Accessed |
When an online work was viewed. |
Electronically Published |
When content was published online or electronically. This date is not always present on a webpage. |
Place of Publication |
Location of the publisher. Depending on the source or style, you may or may not need to know the city, state, or country. |
Publisher/Sponsor |
Company, individual, or entity that helped get a work published or distributed. |
Suffix |
Letters/Abbreviations at the end of a name that tells us more about an individual. For example, Jr. (junior), III (third in family with a name), Esq. (esquire), etc. |
Title |
Name given to a source that identifies it. |
URL |
Link or address of a webpage. One example is http://www.citationmachine.net/. |
Medium |
How a source or content piece was distributed or presented. Here is one example: E-book: Other - PDF, CSV, Word Doc, etc. |
Contributor |
Someone or an organization that helped produce a certain work. For example, a film director, dance choreographer, orchestra conductor, etc. |
Author |
Creator (often writer) of a piece such as a book, script, play, article, podcast, comic, etc. |
