One selection from an anthology or a collection (MLA)

Works cited entry

Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. “Paranoia.” New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus, Vintage Books, 2015, pp. 3-29.

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Include the following elements, in this order:

  • the name of the author of the selection (not the name of the editor of the anthology)
  • the title of the selection, in quotation marks
  • the title of the anthology, italicized
  • the name of the editor(s), preceded by "edited by"
  • publication information
  • the page(s) on which the selection appears

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