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MLA Style Guide: Cite Articles & Books

MLA Style Guide

Print Books

Works Cited Template

Author(s) (last name, first name). Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Works Cited Reference

Duthie, Enid Lowry. The Themes of Elizabeth Gaskell. Rowman and Littlefield, 1980.

In-Text Reference

(Duthie 126)

E-Books

Works Cited Template

Author(s) (last name, first name). Title of Book. Version (e-book), Publisher, Date.

Works Cited Example

Hughes, Langston, and Susan Duffy. The Political Plays of Langston Hughes. 3rd ed. eBook. Southern Illinois UP, 2000. 

In-Text Citation

(Hughes and Duffy 58)

Articles From Print Journals, Newspapers and Magazines

Works Cited Template

Author(s) last name, first name. "Title of Journal Article." Title of Periodical (container), volume, issue, date, pages.

Works Cited Example

Tewell, Eamon. "The Problem with Grit: Dismantling Deficit Thinking in Library Instruction." Portal: Libraries and the Academy, vol. 20, no. 1, Jan. 2020, 137-159.

In-text Example

(Tewell, 2020)

Articles from Online Journals, Newspapers, and Magazines

Works Cited Template

Author. "Title of Journal Article." Title of Periodical (container), volume, issue, date, pages.  Title of Database (container 2). URL/DOI (location). Access Date.

Works Cited Example

Pflueger, Pennie. “The Piano and Female Subjectivity: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) and Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993).” Women’s Studies, vol. 44, no. 4, June 2015, pp. 468–498. Academic Search Complete, doi:10.1080/00497878.2015.1013

In-text Example

(Pflueger, 473)

Books with Multiple Authors

Book with two authors

Books with two authors follow the same format as one author; however, the second author is listed as "first name last name".

Copeland, Edward, and Juliet McMaster, editors. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. 1st ed., Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Book with three or more authors

Books with three or more authors are listed with the first author's name last name, first name; then "et al." is put to indicate that there is more than three authors.  

Grabher, Gudrun, et al. The Emily Dickinson Handbook. U of Massachusetts P, 1998.


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