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Cultural Studies: Art of the Renaissance

Research guide curated for the Cultural Studies Art of the Renaissance Project, Spring Term 2023. Please contact Ms. Sinai with any questions regarding the resources.

Citing in MLA Style

Humanities students at Lawrenceville are required to cite their sources in MLA Style.
 
In MLA, you will need to create two citations for each written source (background article, website, etc.): 
  • A full bibliographic citation (goes at the end of your paper on the Works Cited page). 
  • An in-text citation (a shorter, parenthetical citation that sits at the end of each piece of evidence used in your writing). 
 
For visual sources (posters, illustrations, photographs), you will need:
  • A full bibliographic citation (goes at the end of your paper on the Works Cited page). 
  • A citation below each image, in the full bibliographic format (the same one that goes at the end of your works cited page). You will use Figure or Fig. before the citation.
     
NOTE: Only cite the information that is available to you. If you cannot identify a piece of the template [e.g. an author or date], leave it out rather than making it up.
 

Sample MLA citation for an image:
 

Fig. 1. Botticelli, Sandro, Florentine. The Birth of Venus. ca. 1482. Artstor, library.artstor.org/asset/AIC_880006

Citation and Bibliography Tools

For help with Noodletools:

How to Avoid Plagiarism