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MLA Style Guide 9th Edition

Streaming websites and apps

Streaming Websites and Apps

 

Streaming websites and apps

FILM OR SERIES, WHOLE

TEMPLATE:

Title of Film or Series in Italics. Directed by First Last, Production Company, Date. Name of Streaming Service, web address of streaming service

 

EXAMPLE:

Promise Me. Directed by Alison Duke, OYA Media Group, 2019. Can-Core Academic Video, academic.can-core.ca

 

The Crown. Left Bank Pictures / Sony Pictures Television Production UK, 2016. Netflix, www.netflix.com.

 

TELEVISION SERIES, EPISODE

TEMPLATE:

"Title of Episode in Quotations." Title of Series in Italics, season #, episode #, Production Company, Date. Name of Streaming Service, web address of streaming service.

 

EXAMPLE:

"Be Free." Orange Is the New Black, season 6, episode 13, Lionsgate Television/Titled Productions, 2018. Netflix, www.netflix.com.

FILM OR SERIES, WHOLE

TEMPLATE:

Title of Film or Series in Italics. Directed by First Last, Production Company, Date. Name of Streaming Service app.

 

EXAMPLE:

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Directed by Peter Jackson, Warner Bros. Pictures / New Line Cinema / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / WingNut Films, 2012. Prime Video app.

 

The Crown. Left Bank Pictures / Sony Pictures Television Production UK, 2016. Netflix app.

 

TELEVISION SERIES, EPISODE

TEMPLATE:

"Title of Episode in Quotations." Title of Series in Italics, season #, episode #, Production Company, Date. Name of Streaming Service app.

 

EXAMPLE:

"Be Free." Orange Is the New Black, season 6, episode 13, Lionsgate Television / Titled Productions, 2018. Netflix app.

There are different ways to format an in-text citation, depending on your writing style and sentence structure. In-text citations must correspond to the first element of the works cited entry. For videos, this will often be the title of the film, series, episode, etc. Include timings as necessary. You may use a shortened version of the title in parenthetical in-text citations. Format the title in in text-citations the same way that it is formatted in your works cited (in quotations or italics).

Reference Information

The Crown. Netflix app. Left Bank Pictures / Sony Pictures Television Production UK, 2016.

In-text Citation Guidelines

Examples                                                                                                           

 

Include the title and any relevant timings in brackets at the end of your sentence.

 

Consider this a sentence about the film (The Crown 00:59:34-01:02:21).   

 

Include the title in your sentence and include any relevant timings in brackets at the end of your sentence.

 

As seen in The Crown, "consider this a direct quote from the film" (00:59:34-39).

Remember, in-text citation formatting may change depending on a number of factors.