In Baker's teen years she struggled to have a healthy relationship with her mother, Carrie McDonald, who did not want Josephine to become an entertainer, and scolded her for not tending to Baker's second husband, Willie Baker, whom she had married in 1921 at age 15.
Writing a Bibliography: MLA Format. Below are standard formats and examples for basic bibliographic information recommended by the Modern Language Association (MLA). For more information on the MLA format, see http://www.mla.org/style_faq.
The Modern Language Association developed MLA citation style to help you document your sources in a research paper or other project. By employing MLA citation style, you will give proper credit to authors whose ideas or words you are using in your own work. In a research paper, you will use two types of MLA citation. In-text citations are brief and will appear among the sentences you write in your paper. Reference citations are longer and will appear at the end of your paper, in your List of Works Cited. Letâs say you have written this sentence in your paper: