Generate MLA citations for Books Contributors Author Editor Compiler Translator First MI / Middle Last / corp. Suffix + Add another contributor No additional publication information. Source title Advanced info Vol. Edition Series Publication info Publisher City Year Website title Publisher / sponsor URL Display URL Yes  NoLeave out the URL unless the source cannot be located without it. Electronically published Day Month Year Date accessed Day Month Year Today Database Database Date accessed Day Month Year Today URL Note: MLA 7 says to leave out the URL unless the sourcecannot be located without it or if instructor requires it. Display URL Yes  NoLeave out the URL unless the source cannot be located without it. Medium Ex: PDF, Powerpoint, electronicMLA Style Works Cited Entries Used in English and other Humanities courses You no longer have to include the service provider, the library through which you accessed a database, or the URL. Citing a book by one author:

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982. Note that for university presses, the words university and press will be abbreviated without periods.dg luxury backpack e2Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation.  backpack woerdenNew York: Knopf, 2003. backpack used in ncis new orleans Note that for a non-academic publisher, only the principal name is used (Knopf for Alfred A. Knopf).  arambol backpackYou do not have to include words and abbreviations such as company, inc., publishers, etc.ak 23l backpack

Citing a book by more than one author: Lifton, Robert Jay, and Greg Mitchell.  Who Owns Death: Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions. New York: Morrow, 2000. bl2 backpack glitch Note that only the name of the first author is inverted.  Do not invert the names that follow. If a book has more than three authors, you may only provide the name of the first author followed by the abbreviation et al.  (from the Latin, meaning “and others”). Citing more than one work by the same author:Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965.  When using more than one work by the same author, alphabetize the works by the first major word in the title.  Instead of writing the author’s name more than once, use three hyphens followed by a period. Citing a work in an anthology:

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.  Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia.  New York: Longman, 2005.   Note that the editors’ names are not inverted.  In-text citations should list the author of the work cited, not the editor.  Citing more than one work from the same anthology:Kennedy and Gioia 127-31. Kennedy, X. J. and Dana Gioia, eds. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New York: Longman, 2005. Kennedy and Gioia 643-54. Note that a full citation for the anthology is only provided once (as its own distinct citation); all other times it is abbreviated using the editors’ last names.  Also note that while the first editor’s name is inverted here, the second editor’s name is not. Place eds. at the end of the names. Citing an online book (including those from the Net Library)Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-century Protestantism. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1998.  Citing a short article from a web site

“Gigantism and Dwarfism on Islands.”  PBS Online, 1 Nov. 2008. Note that if no author is credited, begin with the title of the article in quotation marks.  The title of the web site is given in italics, followed by the sponsor of the site.  If no date of publication or update is listed, use the abbreviation n. d. (no date). Citing an entire web site Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Homepage. Univ. of San Francisco, 15 Sep. 2009. Citing an article in a subscription database“The Reproduction of Mothering in Charlotte’s Web.” Children’s Literature 18 (1990): 42-52.  Note that you no longer have to list the service provider, the library which subscribes to the database, or the URL. Citing a sacred text New American Standard Bible.  Trans. Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. Note that when citing a standard version of the Bible, do not italicize the title or provide publication information.  When citing a specific edition of the Bible, the title is italicized and all publication information is provided. 

For sacred texts which have a translator listed on the title page, include that information in your entry. Citing a government document in printOffice of Management and Budget.  A Citizen’s Guide to the Federal Budget. Note that the entry begins with the government (federal or state) followed by the agency issuing the document.  The document title is italicized.  In this example, GPO stands for Government Printing Office, which publishes most federal documents. Citing a government document onlineForest Service Performance and Accountability Report – Fiscal Year 2004.  Citing a law case538 US 760 Supreme Court of the US. 2003. Supreme Court Collection.  Legal Information Inst., Cornell U Law School, n. d. Web.   Note that while law cases may require italics in the body of an MLA format paper, they are not italicized in the work cited entry. Citing a legislative act Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996.  110 Stat. 3048 2 Oct. 1996.