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 MLA
Formatting and Style Guide - Works Cited Page: Books
by
Dave Neyhart and Erin E. Karper. Revision by Karl Stolley
www.owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
01.
MLA - General Format
02.
MLA - In-Text Citations: The Basics
03.
MLA - In-Text Citations: Author-Page Style
04.
MLA - Formatting Quotations
05.
MLA - Footnotes and Endnotes
06.
MLA - Works Cited Page: Basic Format
07.
MLA - Works Cited Page: Books
08.
MLA - Works Cited: Periodicals
09.
MLA - Works Cited: Electronic Sources
10.
MLA - Works Cited: Other Non-Print Sources
11.
MLA - Additional Resources
Works Cited Page: Books
The MLA Style
Manual provides extensive examples of print source citations in
chapter six; the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
provides extensive examples covering a wide variety of potential
sources in chapter six. If your particular case is not covered here,
use the basic forms to determine the correct format, consult one of
the MLA books, visit the links in our additional resources section,
talk to your instructor for help.
Books
First or single author's name is written last name, first name. The
basic form for a book citation is:
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of
Publication: Publisher,
Year of Publication.
Book with One Author
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York:
Penguin Books,
1987.
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver:
MacMurray, 1999.
Book with More Than One Author
First author name is written last name first; subsequent author
names are written first name, last name.
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn
and Bacon
Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000.
If there are more than three authors, you may list only the first
author followed by the phrase et al. (the abbreviation for the Latin
phrase "and others"; no period after "et") in place of the other
authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in
which their names appear on the title page.
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory
and
Applications for Expanding the Teaching of
Composition. Logan, UT:
Utah State UP, 2004.
or
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia
L. Selfe, and
Geoffrey Sirc. Writing New Media:
Theory and Applications for
Expanding the Teaching
of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP,
2004.
Two or More Books by the Same Author
After the first listing of the author's name, use three hyphens and
a period instead of the author's name. List books alphabetically by
title.
Palmer, William J. Dickens and New Historicism. New
York: St.
Martin's, 1997.
---. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History.
Carbondale:
Southern Illinois UP, 1993.
Book by a Corporate Author
A corporate author may be a commission, a committee, or any group
whose individual members are not identified on the title page:
American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. New
York:
Random, 1998.
Book with No Author
List and alphabetize by the title of the book.
Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York: Somerset, 1993.
For parenthetical citations of sources with no author named, use a
shortened version of the title instead of an author's name. Use
quotation marks and underlining as appropriate. For example,
parenthetical citations of the source above would appear as follows:
(Encyclopedia 235).
A Translated Book
Cite as you would any other book, and add "Trans." followed by the
translator's/translators' name(s):
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of
Insanity in
the Age of Reason. Trans. Richard
Howard. New York: Vintage-Random
House, 1988.
Anthology or Collection
List by editor or editors, followed by a comma and "ed." or, for
multiple editors, "eds."
Hill, Charles A. and Marguerite Helmers, eds.
Defining
Visual Rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 2004.
Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and
Theoretical
Approaches. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,
1997.
A Part of a Book
Book parts include an essay in an edited collection or anthology, or
a chapter of a book. The basic form is:
Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of
Collection. Ed.
Editor's Name(s). Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year. Pages.
Some actual examples:
Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant
Writers." A Tutor's
Guide: Helping Writers One to
One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann,
2000. 24-34.
Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design Education as a Liberal
Art: Design
and Knowledge in the University and The
'Real World.'" The Education
of a Graphic Designer.
Ed. Steven Heller. New York: Allworth Press,
1998.
13-24.
Cross-referencing: If you cite
more than one essay from the same edited collection, you should
cross-reference within your works cited list in order to avoid
writing out the publishing information for each separate essay. To
do so, include a separate entry for the entire collection listed by
the editor's name. For individual essays from that collection,
simply list the author's name, the title of the essay, the editor's
last name, and the page numbers. For example:
L'Eplattenier, Barbara. "Finding Ourselves in the Past:
An Argument
for Historical Work on WPAs." Rose and
Weiser 131-40.
Peeples, Tim. "'Seeing' the WPA With/Through Postmodern
Mapping."
Rose and Weiser 153-167.
Rose, Shirley K, and Irwin Weiser, eds. The Writing
Program
Administrator as Researcher. Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann, 1999.
A Multivolume Work
When citing only one volume of a multivolume work, include the
volume number after the work's title, or after the work's editor or
translator.
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria. Trans. H. E. Butler.
Vol. 2.
Cambridge: Loeb-Harvard UP, 1980.
When citing more than one volume of a multivolume work, cite the
total number of volumes in the work.
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria. Trans. H. E. Butler. 4
vols.
Cambridge: Loeb-Harvard UP, 1980.
When citing multivolume works in your text, always include the
volume number followed by a colon, then the page number(s):
...as Quintilian wrote in Institutio Oratoria (1:14-17).
An Introduction, a Preface, a Forward, or
an Afterword
When citing an introduction, a preface, a forward, or an afterword,
write the name of the authors and then give the name of the part
being cited, which should not be italicized, underlined or enclosed
in quotation marks.
Farrell, Thomas B. Introduction. Norms of Rhetorical
Culture. By
Farrell. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993. 1-13.
If the writer of the piece is different from the author of the
complete work, then write the full name of after the word "By." For
example:
Duncan, Hugh Dalziel. Introduction. Permanence and
Change: An
Anatomy of Purpose. By Kenneth Burke.
1935. 3rd ed. Berkeley: U of
California P, 1984.
xiii-xliv.
Other Print/Book Sources
Certain book sources are handled in a special way by MLA style.
The Bible (specific editions)
Give the name of the specific edition, any editor(s) associated with
it, followed by the publication information
The New Jerusalem Bible.
Susan Jones, gen. ed. New York:
Doubleday, 1985.
Your
parenthetical citation will include the name of the specific edition
of the Bible, followed by an abbreviation of the book and
chapter:verse(s), e.g., (The New Jerusalem Bible Gen. 1:2-6).
A Government Publication
Cite the author of the publication if the author is identified.
Otherwise start with the name of the government, followed by the the
agency and any subdivision.
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