Skip to Main Content

Spanish Studies Subject Guide — Citing Using MLA

Topics and resources for Spanish Studies

Updated Page Available

Please visit the new version of this page, updated in 2022. 

MLA and Citing References in Spanish

When using MLA Citation Style for Spanish language citations, be mindful that for titles or subtitles of books, you only capitalize the first words and words that are normally capitalized. For example, instead of typing Cien Años de Soledad, this title should be written as Cien años de soledad. This doesn't apply to journals' titles, where all words in the title are capitalize, e.g. Estudios Caribeños

 

See below a list of resources for citing using MLA:

MLA Handbook (8th Edition)

MLA Handbook Guides

Stable Links

Important Note on the Use of URLs in MLA (from the OWL Purdue MLA page)

"Include a URL or web address to help readers locate your sources. Because web addresses are not static (i.e., they change often) and because documents sometimes appear in multiple places on the web (e.g., on multiple databases), MLA encourages the use of citing containers such as Youtube, JSTOR, Spotify, or Netflix in order to easily access and verify sources. However, MLA only requires the www. address, so eliminate all https:// when citing URLs."

"Many scholarly journal articles found in databases include a DOI (digital object identifier). If a DOI is available, cite the DOI number instead of the URL."

Your completed citation should look something like this:

Rivera Villegas, Carmen M. "La loca de la casa" de Marta Aponte Alsina: Reinvenciones romanticas de un canon fundacional.” Confluencia: Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura, vol. 23, no. 1, 2007, p. 62, www.jstor.org/stable/27923253. Accessed 20 May 2009.

or

Rivera Villegas, Carmen M. "La loca de la casa" de Marta Aponte Alsina: Reinvenciones romanticas de un canon fundacional.” Confluencia: Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura, vol. 23, no. 1, 2007, p. 62, JSTOR, doi:10.1353/mfs.1997.0056.

If your permalink contains https://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url= (as in many EBSCO databases) you will need to remove the entire prefix from your citation. Just keep the URL that follow the equal sign (=) for the citation.
Subjects: Literature, Spanish

Creative Commons  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License. | Details and Exceptions