The Middle Spaces welcomes and encourages students and scholars to make use of the essays published here for their own scholarship or classroom needs. And, if you are a classroom instructor assigning reading from the blog to your students we’d love to hear about which essays you are using and to what end (please see our contact page).

If you are using a post from The Middle Spaces in your own work please be sure to properly cite the work. Below are examples of how to cite the blog (or individual posts) for various style guides.

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Full Blog:

Oyola, Osvaldo. ed. The Middle Spaces: Comics, Music, Culture.  20 March 2013. themiddlespaces.com. Date of  access.

Individual Post or Page:

Author name (last name first). “Title of Post.” Name of Site. Date of post. Medium of publication. Date of  access.

Example:

Jones, Robert, Jr. “DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body.” The Middle Spaces, themiddlespaces.com/2015/03/31/humanity-not-included/. 31 March 2015. Accessed 6 September 2016.

note: the citation should have a hanging indent on the second and following lines (something the formatting for this site unfortunately does not allow for)

Chicago Style

Full Blog:

The Middle Spaces: Comics, Music, Culture., Osvaldo Oyola, ed. Date of your access to the site, http://www.themiddlespaces.com

Individual Post or Page:

Author Name. “Blog Post Title,” The Middle Spaces: Comics, Music, Culture (blog). Full Date of post. Date of Access, Full Web Address of Post.

Example:

Oyola, Osvaldo.  “’Let’s Rewrite Some History’: Captain Marvel & Feminist Revisionism,” The Middle Spaces: Comics, Music, Culture (blog), September 6, 2016. Accessed June 8, 2019. https://themiddlespaces.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/captain-marvel-feminist-revisionism/

American Psychological Association (APA)

Full Blog:

Oyola, O. (n.d.). The Middle Spaces: Comics, Music, Culture.. [Web log]. Retrieved from http://www.themiddlespaces.com.

Individual Post or Page:

Author Name. (Full Date of Post). Blog post title. [Web log comment]. Full Web Address of Post.

Example:

Jimenez, A. (2016, April 5). Miles From Representation: On Needing More from Bendis’s Spider-Man. [Web log comment]. https://themiddlespaces.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/miles-from-representation/.