The purpose of the personal reflection paper is for you to reflect on one of the key ideas or key passages we have covered in our readings. In order to do this, you will need to explain clearly the i

MLA Citation Format Examples - These are modified due to unusual nature of sources. You can use MLA Stylebook 8th edition.

NOTE: The latest edition of the MLA Style book no longer requires a URL for a web source. However, these may be added at an editor’s discretion. If adding the URL, adds clarity as to the origin of the source, I recommend adding it.

Selections from Public Domain Works from a Blackboard Learn Site:

Aristotle. The Nichomachean Ethics of Aristotle, trans. F.H. Peters. 5th edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., 1893. Online Library of Liberty. “Selections from Book One.” Philosophy 208-01,02. University of Idaho. Blackboard Learn. 31 Jan. 2017.

In-Text Example: (Aristotle. Bk. 1. Sect. 7)

Augustine. City of God. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. Vol.II St. Augustin’s City of God and Christian Doctrine, Ed. Philip Schaff. Trans. Marcus Dods and J. F. Shaw. Buffalo: The Christian Literature Co., 1887. The Online Library of Liberty. “Excerpts from Books 12, 14, and 19.” Philosophy 208-01.02. University of Idaho. Blackboard Learn. 26 Jan. 2016.

In-Text Example: (Augustine. Bk. 14. Ch.28)

Confucius, Analects of Confucius. Trans. and Ed. Charles Muller. http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/contao/analects.htm. 4/11/02 and 8/18/02. “Excerpts from the Charles Muller translation of the Analects.” Philosophy 203-01,02, University of Idaho, Blackboard Learn. 30 Jan. 2017.

In-text example: (Analects 2:4)

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. 1651. E-books@Adelaide. 2014. “Selections from Introduction, Chapters 13-15, 17.” Philosophy 208-01,02. University of Idaho. Blackboard Learn. 18 Feb. 2017.

In-Text Example: (Hobbes. Ch. 13)

Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. 1748. Project Gutenberg E-book. 2012. “Selections from Book III. Of Morals.” Philosophy 208-01,02. University of Idaho. Blackboard Learn. 25 Feb. 2017.

In-Text Example: (Hume. Bk. III. Sect. II)

Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. 1777; 1912 Reprint. Project Gutenberg E-Book. 2010. “Selections from Section IX. Conclusion and Appendix II. Of Self-Love.” Philosophy 208-01. University of Idaho. Blackboard Learn. 27 Feb. 2016.

Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. 7th ed. London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1879. Project Gutenberg. “Chapter Two.” Philosophy 208-01. University of Idaho. Blackboard Learn. 4 Mar. 2017.

In-text Example: (Mill. Ch 2)

Overhead from a Blackboard Learn Site

Anderson, Janice Capel. “Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics Overhead.” Phil 208-01. University of Idaho. Blackboard Learn. 21 Jan. 2016.

Single Author Book

Velasquez, Manuel G. Business Ethics: Concepts & Cases. 7th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2012.

Chapter in a Book with Two authors.

Stumpf, Samuel E. and James Fieser. “St. Augustine’s Christian Philosophy.” Socrates to Sartre and Beyond: A History of Philosophy. 8th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2008, 113-128.

Boatright, John R. and Jeffery D. Smith. Ethics and the Conduct of Business. 8th ed. Boston:  Pearson, 2017.

Anthologized original work/primary source section

Aristotle. “Nicomachean Ethics. “Excerpts from Bk I. Sect. 1-5, 7.” Morality and the Good Life: An Introduction to Ethics through the Classical Sources. 5th ed. Eds. Robert C. Solomon, Clancy W. Martin, and Wayne Vaught. Trans. F.H. Peters. Boston: McGraw‑Hill, 2009. 108-115.

Kant, Immanuel. “Chapter 7 -Excerpts from Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals.” Morality and the Good Life: An Introduction to Ethics through the Classical Sources. 5th ed. Eds. Robert C. Solomon, Clancy W. Martin, and Wayne Vaught. Trans. James W. Ellington. 259-313.

Introduction, Preface, Commentary, or Similar in Anthology

Include pages of introduction, pages of commentary, and/or discussion used. 

Solomon, Robert C., Clancy W. Martin, and Wayne Vaught. "Introduction and Commentary on Plato."  Morality and the Good Life: An Introduction to Ethics through the Classical Sources. 5th ed. Eds. Robert C. Solomon, Clancy W. Martin, and Wayne Vaught.  Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2009.  68-69, 99. 

E-book not on BlackBoard Learn – for MLA Guidelines see http://www.mla.org/style/handbook_faq/cite_an_ebook

Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. 1781. Kitchener: Batoche Books, 2000.

Authored Reference Dictionary 

Angeles, Peter A. "Utilitarianism." The HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy. 2nd ed. New York: HarperPerennial. 1992.  

Lectures

Anderson, Janice Capel. “Lecture on J. S. Mill - Phil. 103 - Ethics.” University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. 18 Feb. 2016.

Online Dictionary with no author of entries identified URL included (note: MLA 9th edition requires URL at editor’s discretion) 

"Utilitarianism." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2014. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utilitarianism>. 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy with URL - If you click on author and citation information at the top of the SEP page, it will give you what you need.

Brown, Eric, "Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).  Web. 10 Feb. 2014.  <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/plato-ethics-politics/>.

Online Style Guides for Consultation

Chicago Manual of Style Quickguide - http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html 

Chicago Manual of Style Guide at OWL - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/

MLA Formatting Guide  at OWL - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ 

Turabian Quick Guide http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html