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MLA Works Cited
MLA Handbook, 8th edition
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indent, and alphabetize by author.
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Book, One Author
Jonsen, Albert R. A Short History of
Medical Ethics. Oxford UP, 2008.
Book, 2 Authors
Moon, Fabio, and Gabriel Ba. Two
Brothers, Dark Horse Books,
2015.
3+ authors? List first author and add et
al. (Ex. Gilman, Katherine, et al.)
Book, No Author
Martin Luther King and the
Montgomery Story. Golden Age
Reprints, 2015.
Journal Article
Willse, Craig. The Biopoliticization of
Housing Deprivation. Social
Policy, vol. 45, no. 4, Winter
2015, pp. 83-90.
Journal Article, No Author
"Putting Housing First." Canadian
Nurse, vol. 110, no. 5, May 2014,
pp. 22-27.
Work in Anthology
More, Hannah. The Black Slave
Trade: A Poem. British Women
Poets of the Romantic Era,
edited by Paula R. Feldman,
Johns Hopkins UP, 1997, pp.
472-82.
Include editor and translator after title.
ELECTRONIC
Whelan, Debra Lau. Facebook Book
Clubs. School Library Journal,
vol. 62, no. 1 June 2009, p. 16.
News Article
McKay, Peter A. Stocks Feel the
Dollars Weight. The Wall Street
Journal, 4 Dec. 2006, pp. C1+.
Not on consecutive pages? Cite section
and page number of start and add +.
Book with Editions
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for
Writers of Research Papers. 6th
ed., MLA, 2003.
Write edition as it appears in book.
2+ Books by Same Author
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism:
Four Essays. Princeton UP, 1957.
---. The Double Vision: Language and
Meaning in Religion. U of
Toronto P, 1991.
Arrange by title, ignoring a, an, and the.
Translation
Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by
Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996.
Class Handout
Smith, Sarah. Literary Criticism.
Pellissippi State Community
College, Aug. 2016. Class
handout.
Article in Reference Book
Raynor, Henry. Frisby, Terance.
Contemporary British
Dramatists, St James Press,
1994, pp. 239-41.
Article in Ref Book, No Author
"Ideology." The American Heritage
Dictionary, 3rd ed., 1997.
Play, Database
Include database permanent link, DOI, or
Web site URL with date accessed.
E-book
Wingender, Edgar. Biological Petri
Nets. IOS Press, 2011. eBook
Collection (EBSCOhost),
search.ebscohost.com/login.asp
x?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=39
5229&scope=site.
Article, Database
Tapper, Jiga-Boy, et al. "Evaluation of
an Online Healthy Eating
Programme." Appetite, vol. 71,
2013, p. 487. ScienceDirect,
doi:10.1016/j.appet.2013.06.067.
Article, Web
Junge, Wolfgang. "Nature's Rotary
Electromotors." Science, 8 Mar.
2009, pp. 643-44. Science Online,
science.sciencemag.org/content
/308/5722/642.
No page numbers? Dont include.
Web Page
Bright Future. Climate Solutions,
www.climatesolutions.org/bright
-future. Accessed 3 Oct. 2016.
Entire Website
American Memory Project. Library of
Congress, memory.loc.gov/
ammem/index.html. Accessed 3
Oct. 2016.
No date of publication? Dont include.
Visual Art, Web
Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922,
mixed media, Museum of Modern
Art, New York, www.moma.org/
collection/works/37347. Accessed
3 Oct. 2016.
Death of a Salesman. Directed by
Alex Segal, Broadway Theatre
Archive, 1966. Theatre in Video,
search.alexanderstreet.com/ativ
/view/work/860189.
Government Publication
United States, Department of Labor.
The Employment Situation.
Government Printing Office,
2016, www.bls.gov/news.release
/pdf/empsit.pdf. Accessed 3 Oct.
2016.
Poem, Online
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl. Poetry
Foundation, www.poetryfound
ation.org/poems-and-poets/
poems/detail/49303. Accessed 3
Oct. 2016.
Video, Online
This is Why You Cant Outrun a
Cheetah. YouTube, uploaded by
Smithsonian Channel, 2 Oct.
2012, www.youtube.com/watch
?v=V8vejjVgIHg. Accessed 3 Oct.
2016.
Music, Database
De Luca, Paco. To Sabas. Live In
America, Universal Classics &
Jazz, 1994. Music Online: Jazz
Music Library, search.alexander
street.com/view/work/711723.
Interview
Knowles, Beyonc. Personal
interview. 19 May 2016.
Start with interviewee. No title? Use
Interviewed by You interviewed? Use
Personal interview.
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