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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