MLA Citation Style Guide –8th Edition (updated fall 2016)
PRINT SOURCES CITATION SAMPLES
BOOKS – Author’s name. Title of book: include subtitle. Place: publisher, date. Medium of publication = Print.
ONE AUTHOR
Costa, Richard Hauer. H. G. Wells. Twayne, 1967.
Rossignol, Rosalyn. Chaucer A to Z: The Essential Reference
to His Life and Works. Facts on File, 1999.
TWO OR MORE AUTHORS(3 or more: use“et al”)
Hussey, Maurice, A. C. Spearing, and JamesWinny. An
Introduction to Chaucer. Cambridge UP, 1965.
Barto, Brian, et al. Halcyon Days. Random House, 2016.
EDITOR (compilation or no separate authors)
Galens, David, ed. “Dracula.” Novels for Students, vol. 15,
Gale, 2003, pp. 22-34.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Henry, Mary Ann. “Announcing Bus Changes with
Flair.” Time, vol. 4, no. 2, July 1991, p. 71.
WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY (works containing chapters with signed articles or separate authors)
Mescallado, Ray. “Stephen King.” Magill’s Survey
Of American Literature, edited by Steven G. Kellman,
rev. ed. Salem, 2007, pp. 1347-1359.
McEwen, Fred B. “Ivanhoe.” Beacham’s
Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, edited by Mark W.
Scott, vol. 12,Gale, 2000, pp. 187-194.
Hoffman, William. “Joseph Wambaugh.” Critical Survey of
Long Fiction, edited by Carl Rollyson. 2nd ed. Salem,
2000, pp. 3354-3359.
INTRODUCTION, PREFACE, FORWARD
name of author, name of part capitalized
no quotation marks or underlining (MLA 2.2.1)
Trotter, David. Introduction. Great Expectations. by Charles
Dickens, Penguin,1996, pp. vii-xx.
Felstiner, John. Preface. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul
Celan, by Paul Celan, translated by Felstiner, W.W.
Norton, 2001, pp. xix-xxxvi.
REPRINTS (previously published articles or books reprinted in a new source) Use for CLC, TCLC, NCLC, SSC, Modern Critical Views, Readings on, Modern Critical Interpretations, Collection of Critical Essays, Novels and SS for Students, Bloom’s Notes
from Magazines(periodical info. reprinted in a book)
Hutson, Richard. “Exile Guise: Irony and Hart Crane.”
Mosaic 2, 1969, p. 71. Hart Crane: A Collection of
Critical Essays. Edited by Alan Trachtenberg,
Prentice-Hall, 1982, pp. 131-149.
Guthrie, William Norman. “The Rime of the Ancient
Marineras Prophecy.” Sewanee Review, 1898, pp.
200-13. Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism. Edited
by James E. Person,Jr.,vol. 54,Gale, 1996, pp. 66-72.
Bayley, John. “Fictive Lightness, Fictive Weight.”
Salmagundi, vol. 5, no. 2, 14 Mar. 2001, pp. 84-92.
Novels for Students. Edited by David Galens, vol. 18,
Gale, 2003, pp. 216-221.
from BOOKS(book info. reprinted in different book)
Wilder, Amos Niven. “A Brother’s Perspective.” Thornton
Wilder and his Public, Macmillan, 1980, p. 6.
Readings on Thornton Wilder. Edited by Bruno Leone,
vol. 8, Greenhaven,1998, pp. 43-52.
Wain, John. “Romeo and Juliet.” The Living World of
Shakespeare: A Playgoer’s Guide, St. Martin’s, 1964,
pp. 107-8. WilliamShakespeare’s Romeo and
Juliet. Edited by Harold Bloom.Chelsea, 1996, pp. 48-49.
ELECTRONIC sources citation SAMPLES
SUBSCRIPTION DATABASE examples:
Gale Student Resource CenterDatabase
“Ernest (Miller) Hemingway.” Discovering Authors
Online Edition. Gale, 2003. StudentResourceCenter.
ic.galegroup.com.
Proquest Database
Michelet, F.L. “Hospitality, Hostility, and Peacemaking
In Beowulf. Philological Quarterly, vol. 94, no. 1, pp.
23-50. Proquest, search.proquest.com.
Gale Literature Resource CenterDatabase
St. Armand, Barton Levi. “Young Goodman Brown as
Historical Allegory.” Short Story Criticism, edited by
Anna J. Sheets, vol. 29, Gale, 1998. Literature Resource
Center, go.galegroup.com.
SIRS Database
Belson, Ken. “Suit Puts Concussion Spotlight on Insurers.”
New York Times, B.7, 19 July 2016. SIRS Issues
Researcher, sks.sirs.com.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Database
“Abbas I.” Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., vol. 1,
Gale, 2004, pp. 4-6. Gale Virtual Reference Library,
go.galegroup.com.
Salem
Smith, R.L. “Flappers.” The 1920s in America, edited by
Carl Rollyson, Salem, 2012. Salem Online,
onlinesalempress.com.
Gale Literature Criticism Online
Oates, Joyce Carol. “Jekyll/Hyde.” Short Story Criticism,
edited by David L. Siegel, vol. 11, Gale, 1992. Short
Story Criticism Online, go.galegroup.com.
.
Periodical Article on the Web
MacInnes, Ian. “Cheerful Girls and Willing Boys:
Old and Young Bodies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.”
Early Modern Literary Studies, vol. 6, no. 2,2000,
pp. 1-26. EarlyModern Literary Studies Homepage.
Edited by Lisa Hopkins,Sheffield Hallam University,
2000,
Podcasts
“Best of Not My Job Musicians.” Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
from NPR, 4 June 2016, npr.org/podcasts/344098539/wait-
wait-don-t-tell-me.
Digital Files (PDFs, MP3s, JPEGs, Microsoft Word file)
Determine the type of work to cite (article, image, sound recording) and cite appropriately. End the entry with the name of the digital format.
Lee, Stuart and Elizabeth Solopova: “Tolkein and
Languages: Ancient and Invented.” Tolkein at
Oxford,Oxford U, 2009. MP3 file.
General Rules for Citing Web Sources
Cite the following, as available, in order:
- Name of author(and/or editor)
- Article Name(in quotation marks)
- Title of Overall Website(in italics)
- Version or Edition used This includes revisions, volumes, posting dates or issue numbers (no.)
- Publisher or Sponsor of site (n.p. if none).
- Date of Publication (n.d. if none)
- URL (length determined by your teacher-p.48 in MLA handbook)*
*DOI numbers (Digital Object Identifiers) and
Permalinks should be used in lieu of URLs when such information is available.
*Do NOT include or
General Website Example
Moht, Ken. “Labrador Retriever.” Best Family Dogs,
American Kennel Club, 2016,