MLA Style - The Citadel
MLA Style – A Summary
Introduction
How to do bibliographical citations in literary scholarship
What is the MLA?
Other citation styles
The “Works Cited” Form
Books
Articles
Other media
Implications for your bibliography and editing projects
ALS
Citing Books
Book with one author
West, James L. W. III. The Making of “This Side of Paradise.” Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1993.
Two or more books by the same author
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957.
---. The Double Vision. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1962.
Book with two or more authors
Jakobson, Roman, and Linda R. Waugh. The Sound Shape of Language. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1979.
An edition
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. 1895. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1975.
A collection of essays or an anthology
Lopate, Phillip., ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994.
Citing Books: Less Common Examples
A republished book
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. 1972. New York: Fawcett, 1987.
An Introduction, preface, foreword, etc.
Drabble, Margaret. Introduction. Middlemarch. By George Eliot. New York: Bantam, 1985. vii-xvii.
An article in a reference work.
“Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1993. Ed.
A multivolume work
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Oxford Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Owen Dudley Edwards. 9 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
Citing Essays
Article in a scholarly journal
Hutchisson, James M. "Nathanael West, Contempo Magazine, and The Composition of Miss Lonelyhearts." Resources for American Literary Study 24.1 (1998): 84-100.
Newspaper article
Feder, Barnaby J. “For Job Seekers, a Toll-Free Gift of Expert Advice.” New York Times 30 Dec. 1993, late ed.: D1+
Magazine Article
Murphy, Cullen. “Women and The Bible.” Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1993: 39-64.
Anonymous article (magazine)
“Dubious Venture.” Time 3 Jan. 1994: 64-65.
Review
Rev. of Anthology of Danish Literature, ed. F. J. Billeshov Jansen and P. M. Mitchell. Times Literary Supplement 7 July 1972: 785.
Crutchfield, Will. “Pure Italian.” Rev. of Verdi: A Biography, by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz. New Yorker 31 Jan. 1994: 76-82.
Some Patterns (How to Remember These Forms)
Last name, first name.
Page numbers preceded by colon.
U and P
The period.
Abbreviations
What This Means for Your Assignments
Follow this form for your bibliography and editing assignments
Bibliography:
Use author(s)’ last name(s) only within body of paper
Follow name with reference number in parenthesis, to refer to enumerative bibliog.
* In his insightful study of Evelyn Waugh’s novels, Sykes (8) lays the groundwork for a reconsideration of Waugh’s Anglo-Catholocism.
Editing project:
Always cite source at end of footnote, just as above.
“Works Cited” or bibliography page at end of your edition not needed.
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