9 Common Core Elements
Rather than give strict format rules for different types of sources, the 8th edition of the MLA Handbook identifies 9 "core elements" common to most sources and provides flexible guidelines on how to reference them in your Works Cited list.
(Commas separate details of the "container" or master work until all details are exhausted.)
When you write a research paper, you use information and facts from a variety of resources to support your own ideas to develop new ones. You cite these sources for the following reasons:
Using information from other - outside - sources without citing those sources is PLAGIARISM.
Remember: cite your quotations. Cite when you paraphrase. Cite when you use ideas that are the original ideas (text, images, video, audio, music, etc.) from other people.