This document provides examples of how to cite different types of books and articles according to the 8th edition of the MLA style guide. It includes examples for citing single-author books, books with multiple authors, articles in encyclopedias with and without authors, entries in anthologies or containers with various editor configurations, and online database articles. The examples cover common text citations readers may encounter when writing a paper requiring MLA citations.
This document provides examples of how to cite different types of books and articles according to the 8th edition of the MLA style guide. It includes examples for citing single-author books, books with multiple authors, articles in encyclopedias with and without authors, entries in anthologies or containers with various editor configurations, and online database articles. The examples cover common text citations readers may encounter when writing a paper requiring MLA citations.
This document provides examples of how to cite different types of books and articles according to the 8th edition of the MLA style guide. It includes examples for citing single-author books, books with multiple authors, articles in encyclopedias with and without authors, entries in anthologies or containers with various editor configurations, and online database articles. The examples cover common text citations readers may encounter when writing a paper requiring MLA citations.
This document provides examples of how to cite different types of books and articles according to the 8th edition of the MLA style guide. It includes examples for citing single-author books, books with multiple authors, articles in encyclopedias with and without authors, entries in anthologies or containers with various editor configurations, and online database articles. The examples cover common text citations readers may encounter when writing a paper requiring MLA citations.
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MLA Eighth Edition Citing for Books
Book - One Author
Lee, Nelle Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Warner, 1960.
Book - Two authors
Dorris, Michael, and Louis Erdrich. The Crown of Columbus. HarperCollins P, 1999.
Book - Three or more authors
Burdick, Anne, et al. Digital Humanities. MIT P, 2012.
Article in general encyclopedia with an author
Tobias, Richard. “Thurber, James.” Encyclopedia Americana: International Edition. 2003, pp. 486-487.
Article in general encyclopedia without an author
“Thurber, James.” Encyclopedia Americana: International Edition. 2003, pp. 486-487.
Container (anthology) with no author and only an editor
Byers, Paula K., editor. “Socrates.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. Gale, 1998, pp. 486-488.
Container (anthology) with one author and one editor
Satris, Stephen. “Socrates.” Great Lives from History: Ancient and Medieval Series, edited by Frank N. Magill, Salem P, 1988, pp. 1949-1955.
Container (anthology) with one author and two editors
Johnson, John. “Mordred.” The Encyclopedia of Arthur, edited by Susan White and Henry Doe, Holt P, 1999, pp. 12-13.
Container (anthology) with one author and three or more editors
Johnson, John. “Mordred.” The Encyclopedia of Arthur, edited by Susan White, et al., Holt P, 1999, pp. 14-15.
Container (anthology) with no author and two editors
Holland, Merlin, and Rupert Hart-Davis, editors. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Henry Holt, 2000.
Container (anthology) with no author and three or more editors
Baron, Sabrina Alcorn, et al., editors. Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth I. U of Massachusetts P Center for the Book, Library of Congress. 2007.
Online database Brown, Bryan. “Child Soldiers of Ancient Sparta.” Junior Scholastic, 21 Sept. 2009, vol. 112, pp. 12-14, aebscohost.com/. Accessed 8 Dec. 2016.