MLA Format for Works Cited
MLA Format for Works Cited, 10/5/98
English 1.314, Jennifer Chen
Citing Books
Books by a Single Author
Kaku, Michio. Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.
Anthology or Compilation
McRae, Murdo William, ed. The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular Science Writing. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993.
Two or More Books by the Same Author
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957.
______. The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991.
______, ed. Sound and Poetry. New York: Columbia UP, 1957.
Book by Two or Three Authors
Jakobson, Roman, and Linda R. Waugh. The Sound Shape of Language. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1979.
Book by More Than Three Authors
Gilman, Sander, et al. Hysteria beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
Book by a Corporate Author
American Medical Association. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine. New York: Random, 1989.
Anonymous Book
New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. New York: Prentice, 1993.
Specific Edition
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Ed. Carol H. Poston. New York: Norton, 1975.
Multivolume Work
Lauter, Paul, et al., eds. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Lexington: Heath, 1994.
One Volume of a Multivolume Work
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl." The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter et al. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Lexington: Heath, 1994. 2425-33.
Translation
Dostoevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. Trans. Jessie Coulson. Ed. George Gibian. New York: Norton, 1964.
Book in a Series
Stewart, Joan Hinde. Colette. Twayneis World Authors Ser. 679. Boston: Twayne, 1983.
Cross-References
Sexton, Andrea Wyatt, and Alice Leccese Powers, eds. The Brooklyn Reader: Thirty Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough. New York: Harmony, 1994.
Walcott, Derek. "A Letter from Brooklyn." Sexton and Powers 264-265.
Whitman, Walt. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." Sexton and Powers 267-74.
Citing Anthology Entries, Parts of Books
Work in an Anthology
Allende, Isabel. "Toad's Mouth." Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. A Hammock beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America. Ed. Thomas Colchie. New York: Plume, 1992. 83-88.
Article in a Reference Book
"Ginsburg, Ruth Bader." Who's Who in America. 48th ed. 1994.
Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or Afterword
Doctorow, E. L. Introduction. Sister Carrie. By Theodore Dreiser. New York: Bantam, 1982. v- xi.
Citing Articles
Article in a Scholarly Journal
Baum, Rosalie Murphy. "Alcoholism and Family Abuse in Maggie and The Bluest Eye." Mosaic 19.3 (1986): 91-105.
Article in a Newspaper
Feder, Barnaby J. "For Job Seekers, a Toll-Free Gift of Expert Advice." New York Times 30 Dec. 1993, natl. ed.: C1+.
Citing Dissertations
Published Dissertation
Valentine, Mary-Blair Truesdell. An Investigation of Gender-Based Leadership Styles of Male and Female Officers in the United States Army. Diss. George Mason U, 1993. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1993. 9316566.
Unpublished Dissertation
Boyle, Anthony T. "The Epistemological Evolution of Renaissance Utopian Literature, 1516-1657." Diss. New York U, 1983.
Citing Online Databases
Angier, Natalie. "Chemists Learn Why Vegetables Are Good for You." New York Times 13 Apr. 1993, late ed.: C1. New York Times Online. Online. Nexis. 10 Feb. 1994.
[Nexis = name of the computer service]
[10 Feb. 1994 = date of access]