MLA Citation Style

Works Cited list

Books:

References to an entire book should include the following elements:

author(s) or editor(s)

the complete title

edition, if indicated

place of publication

the shortened name of the publisher

date of publication

No author or editor:

  Peterson's Annual Guides to Graduate Study . 33rd ed. Princeton , NJ : Peterson's Guides, 1999.

One author:

  Nabokov, Vladimir . Lolita . New York : Putnam, 1955.

Another work, same author:

---. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited . New York : Knopf, 1999.

Two authors:

Cross, Susan, and Christine Hoffman. Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience . New York : Guggenheim Museum ; London : Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Three authors:

Lowi, Theodore, Benjamin Ginsberg, and Steve Jackson. Analyzing American Government: American Government, Freedom and Power . 3rd ed. New York : Norton, 1994.

More than three authors:

Gilman, Sandor, et al. Hysteria beyond Freud . Berkeley : U of California P, 1993.

Corporate author:

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. A Guide to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University . Ithaca , NY : Cornell University , 1973.

Multivolume work:

Morison, Samuel Eliot, Henry Steele Commager, and William E. Leuchtenburg. The Growth of the American Republic . 2 vols. New York : Oxford UP, 1980.

Essay or Chapter in Edited Books or Anthologies : References to an essay or chapter in an edited book or compilation must include the following elements:

Article in a book:

Kowalewski, Michael. "Jack Kerouac and the Beats in San Francisco ." San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature . Ed. David Fine and Paul Skenazy. Albuquerque : U of New Mexico P, 1995. 126-43.

Reprinted article:

Hunt, Tim. "The Misreading of Kerouac." Review of Contemporary Fiction 3.2 (1983): 29-33. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism . Ed. C. Riley. Vol. 61. Detroit : Gale, 1990. 308-10.

Articles or entries from reference books:

If the article or entry is signed, place the author's name first; if it is unsigned, give the title first. For well-known reference works, it is not necessary to include full publication information. Include only the title of the reference source, edition, and date of publication.

  Dictionary entry:

"Accord." Def.5b. The Oxford English Dictionary . 2nd ed. 1989.

Encyclopedia entry:

Bergman, P. G. "Relativity." The New Encyclopaedia Britannica . 15th ed. 1987.

Article from a less familiar reference book:

For articles from less familiar reference sources, include the full publication information.

Nielsen, Jorgen S. "European Culture and Islam." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World . Ed. Richard C. Martin. New York : Macmillan Reference-Thomson/Gale, 2004.