When using MLA citations for a song, is it incorrect to include the date recorded and the date released?

Posted on March 2, 2010 by admin

Although possibly unnecessary, is it incorrect to include both the date recorded and the release date if they are the same? For example:

Youth Group. "Forever Young." Rec. 2006. Music From the OC:Mix 5. Warner Bros./WEA Records, 2006

Entire Albums

List by name of group or artist (individual artists are listed last name first). Album title underlined or in italics, followed by label and year.

Foo Fighters. <underline>In Your Honor.</underline> RCA, 2005.

Waits, Tom. <italics>Blue Valentine.</italics> 1978. Elektra/Wea, 1990.
Individual Songs

Place the names of individual songs in quotation marks.

Nirvana. "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Nevermind. Geffen, 1991.

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2 Responses to When using MLA citations for a song, is it incorrect to include the date recorded and the date released?

  1. bballchicky_201 says:
    March 2, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    Your example is correct.
    References :

  2. Tony E says:
    March 2, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    Entire Albums

    List by name of group or artist (individual artists are listed last name first). Album title underlined or in italics, followed by label and year.

    Foo Fighters. <underline>In Your Honor.</underline> RCA, 2005.

    Waits, Tom. <italics>Blue Valentine.</italics> 1978. Elektra/Wea, 1990.
    Individual Songs

    Place the names of individual songs in quotation marks.

    Nirvana. "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Nevermind. Geffen, 1991.
    References :
    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/10/