Basic format for a book (on the web) (MLA)

Works cited entry

MLA-147

Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard UP, 2014. Google Books, books.google.com/books?isbn=0674369556.

Saalman, Lora, editor and translator. The China-India Nuclear Crossroads. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012. Scribd, www.scribd.com/book/142083413/The-China-India-Nuclear-Crossroads.

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  • Begin as you would for any book or book-length work, giving whatever publication information is available in the source.
  • Add the title of the website and the URL.
  • If the publication information for the book does not include a date, give the date of posting before the URL.
  • See also Long work from a website.

NOTE: When a URL must be divided at the end of a line, break it before a period or a hyphen or after any other mark of punctuation. Do not insert a hyphen at the end of the line.

General guidelines for the MLA works cited list

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