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MLA (5th ed.) Citation Format Examples

(Examples are in red print)

Book - one author:

Marcuse, Sibyl. A Survey of Musical Instruments. New York: Harper, 1975.

Author's last name, author's first name. Title (underlined). Place of publication: publisher, date of publication.

Book - Editor (listed on title page):

Feldman, Paula R., ed. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.

Editor's last name, first name, ed. Title (underlined). Place of publication: publisher, date of publication.

Book by two or more authors:

Eggins, Suzanne, and Diane Slade. Analysing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997.

Author's last name, first name "and" second author's name in natural order. Title (underlined). Place of publication: publisher, date of publication.

Work in an anthology:

Allende, Isabel. "Toad's Mouth," A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America. Ed. Thomas Colchie. New York: Plume, 1992. 83-88.

Author of the work's last name, first name. "Title of work." Title of anthology (underlined). Editor (if given). Place of publication: publisher, date of publication. Page numbers of the cited piece.

Article in a reference book:

Mohantry, Jitendra M. "Indian Philosophy." The New Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropaedia. 15 ed. 1987.

Author of article (if given) - last name first. "Title of article." Title of reference book (underlined). Edition (if not first). Date of publication.

Magazine or newspaper article:

Barthelme, Frederick. "Architecture." Kansas Quarterly 13. 3-4 (1981): 77-80.

Author's last name, first name. "Title of article." Title of magazine (underlined). Issue number (date of publication): page numbers.

Web site article:

Dawe, James. Jane Austen Page. 15 Sept. 1998. <http://nyquist.ee.alberta.ca/~dawe/austen.html>.

Author's last name, first name (if given). Title of web page (underlined). Date of access. <Network address (URL)>.

CD-ROM:

Braunmuller, A.R., ed. Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. CD-ROM. New York: Voyager, 1994.

Author's last name, first name (if given). Title of CD-ROM (underlined). Publication medium (CD-ROM). Edition or version (if given). Place of publication: publisher, date of publication.

*Due to formatting issues, second line of citations has not been indented. On a works cited (or bibliography) page, the first line of the citation should be placed on the left margin and all other lines indented.

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