Author using a pseudonym (pen name) or screen name (MLA)

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Beginning of works cited entries

Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogarty).

Pauline.

Complete works cited entries

Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogarty). “Lewis Carroll: He Loved to Play with Language.” QuickandDirtyTips.com, 21 May 2015, www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/lewis-carroll-he-loved-to-play-with-language.

Pauline. Comment on “Is This the End?” by James Atlas. The New York Times, 25 Nov. 2012, nyti.ms/1BRUvqQ.

Explain

  • Give the author’s name as it appears in the source (the pseudonym), followed by the author’s real name in parentheses.
  • If you do not know the author’s real name, use only the pseudonym.
  • See Comment on an online article for an explanation of the elements in the second example.

General guidelines for the MLA works cited list

Directory to MLA works cited models

How to answer the basic question “Who is the author?”

Related works cited entries:

Short work from a Web site (with author)

Comment on an online article