GUIDELINES FOR A LIST OF WORKS CITED (2016 Update)

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1. Book with One Author

A book with one author serves as a general model for most MLA citations. Include author, title, publisher, and date of publication.

Beavan, Colin. No Impact Man. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

2. Book with Multiple Authors

Kasarda, John D., and Greg Lindsay. Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

3. Two or More Works by the Same Author

Multiple entries should be arranged alphabetically by title. The author’s name appears at the beginning of the first entry but is replaced by three hyphens and a period in all subsequent entries.

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Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. Little, Brown, 2008.

---. What the Dog Saw, and Other Adventures. Little, Brown, 2009.

4. Author and Editor Both Named

Vidal, Gore. The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal. Edited by Jay Parini, Vintage Books, 2009.

Alternatively, to cite the editor’s contribution, start with the editor’s name.

Parini, Jay, editor. The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal. By Gore Vidal. Vintage, 2009.

5. Anthology

Oates, Joyce Carol, editor. Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers. Norton, 1997.

Selection from an anthology:

Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle.” Conversations in American Literature: Language, Rhetoric, Culture, edited by Robin Aufses et al. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015, 435–48.

6. Translation

Wiesel, Elie. Night. Translated by Marion Wiesel. Hill and Wang, 2006.

7. Entry in a Reference Work

Because most reference works are alphabetized, you should omit page numbers.

Lounsberry, Barbara. “Joan Didion.” Encyclopedia of the Essay. edited by Tracy Chandler, Fitzroy, 1997.

For a well-known encyclopedia, use only the edition and year of publication. When an article is not attributed to an author, begin the entry with the article title.

“Gilgamesh.” The Columbia Encyclopedia. 5th ed., 1993.

8. Sacred Text

Unless a specific published edition is being cited, sacred texts should be omitted from the Works Cited list.

The New Testament. Translated by Richmond Lattimore, North Point, 1997.

9. Article in a Journal

The title of the journal should be followed by the volume, issue, and year of the journal’s publication, as well as the page range.

de Botton, Alain. “Treasure Hunt.” Lapham’s Quarterlyvol. 4, no. 2, 2011, pp. 205-10.

10. Article in a Magazine

In a weekly:

Menand, Louis. “The Unpolitical Animal: How Political Science Understands Voters.” The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2004, pp. 92–96.

In a monthly:

Baker, Kevin. “Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow It Again.” Harper’s, July 2009, pp. 29–37.

11. Article in a Newspaper

If you are citing a local paper that does not contain the city name in its title, add the city name in brackets after the title. When citing an article that does not appear on consecutive pages, list the first page followed by a plus sign. The edition only needs to be included if it is listed on the paper’s masthead.

Edge, John T. “Fast Food Even before Fast Food.” The New York Times, 30 Sept. 2009, late ed., pp. D1+.

12. Review

In a weekly:

Davis, Jordan. “Happy Thoughts!” Review of The Golden Age of Paraphernalia, by Kevin Davies, The Nation, 23 Feb. 2009, pp. 31–34.

In a monthly:

Simpson, Mona. “Imperfect Union.” Review of Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, by Alison Light, The Atlantic Jan.-Feb. 2009, pp. 93–101.