Citing
Books
(Works
cited lists, or bibliographies, are organized alphabetically by the
author’s last name. If there is no author given, the entry is
made under the title.)
A)
Single author
Author's name. Title of the book. Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year Published.
Grafton, Sue. N is for Noose. New York:
Henry Holt, 1998.
B) Two or more authors
Authors' names
should be listed in the order they are found on the title page. Only
the first author's name
should
be reversed.
Li, Xia, and Nancy B. Crane. Electronic Style:
a Guide to Citing Electronic Information.
Westport, CT: Meckler,1993.
If there
are more than three authors all the authors may be listed, or you
may cite only the first followed
by et al.
Gilman, Sander, et al. Hysteria Beyond Freud.
Berkeley: U of California P., 1993
C) Two or more books by the same author(s)
If you have
used two or more books by the same author(s), give the names in the
first entry only. Three
hyphens
are used to stand for the author(s) name in the following citations.
Grafton, Sue. N is for Noose. New York:
Henry Holt, 1998.
---. G is for Gumshoe. New York: Fawcett Crest,
1991.
D) Works in Anthologies and Collections
Author of included work. "Title of included work."
Title of Anthology/collection. Title of and
Name of Editor/Compiler. Place Published:
Publisher, Year. Pages.
Calvino, Italo. "Cybernetics and Ghosts." The Uses
of Literature: Essays.Trans. Patrick Creagh.
San Diego: Harcourt, 1982. 3-27.
"A Witchcraft Story." The Hopi Way: Tales from a
Vanishing Culture. Comp. Mando Sevillano.
Flagstaff: Northland, 1986. 32-42.
E) Articles in Encyclopedias
Cite encyclopedia
articles as you would pieces in anthologies, but do not cite the editor
of the reference work. If the article is signed, give the author's
name first. If it is unsigned, give the article title first. For
familiar
reference books (World Book, etc.) do not give full publication information;
include only the
edition
(if given) and the year of publication. For those that are less familiar,
give full publication
information.
Citing
Periodical Articles
A) Journal articles
For articles
in journals, publication information includes a volume number, as
well as the year of
publication
and the page numbers on which the article appears.
Author's name. "Title of the Article." Journal
Name. Volume and Issue Numbers (Year): Pages.
Scotto, Peter. "Censorship, Reading and
Interpretation: A Case Study from the Soviet
Union." PMLA. 109 (1994): 61-70.
B) Newspaper articles
Omit introductory
articles (The, etc.). For national publications the city of publication
does not need to be
included.
Do not give volume and issue numbers, but do give the edition if one
appears on the masthead.
Feder, Barnaby J. "For Job Seekers, a Toll-Free
Gift of Expert Advice." New York Times. 30 Dec.
1993, natl. ed.: C+.
Taylor, Paul. "Keyboard Grief: Coping with Computer-
Caused Injuries."Globe and Mail. [Toronto]
27 Dec. 1993: A1+.
C) Magazine articles
Do not give
volume and issue numbers, even if they are listed. If the article
is not printed on consecutive
pages,
give only the initial page number followed by a plus sign. For magazines
published every few weeks
give the
complete date. For those published every month or two months, give
the month or months.
Bazell, Robert. "Science and Society: Growth
Industry." New Republic. 15 Mar. 1993: 13-14.
Frank, Michael. "The Wild , Wild West." Architectural
Digest. June 1993: 180+
*Information
taken from:
Joseph Giabaldi. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Assoc. 1999.
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