Author. Title of Source. Title of the Container. Other Contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location.
Kirby, David. What Is a Book? U of Georgia P, 2002.
Author. Title of Source. Title of the Container. Other Contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location. Name of web site or database, URL.
Sunderland, Jane. Language, Gender and Children's Fiction. EPUB file, Continuum, 2011. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=347298&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Kirby, David. What Is a Book? EPUB file, U of Georgia P, 2002.
For the URL, omit http:// or https:// from the citation.
Kirby, David. What Is a Book? U of Georgia P, 2002.
Eiland, Howard, and Michael William Jennings. Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Booth, Wayne C., et al. The Craft of Research. 2nd ed. U of Chicago P, 2003.
Quirk, Randolph, et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Longman, 1985.
List authors in the order they appear on the source.
Second author's name is list with the proper name first.
When there are three or more authors, list the first author and the phrase "et al."
Note there is no period after et and there is a period after al.
New York Public Library American History Desk Reference. New York: Macmillan, 1997.
MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Kindle ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
Author. Title of Source. Title of the Container. Other Contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location.
Austen, Jane, Juvenilia. Edited by Peter Sabor, Cambridge University Press, 2006. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austin.
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Edited by Claudia Johnson. Norton, 2001.
Calvino, Italo. “Cybernetics and Ghosts.”The Uses of Literature: Essays. Translated by Patrick Creagh. Harcourt, 1982, pp. 3-27.
Reference List
Austen, Jane, Juvenilia. Edited by Peter Sabor, Cambridge University Press, 2006. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austin.
The series information is considered under the optional element Other Facts about the Source.
Other Facts about the Source is added after a period at the end of the citation made up of the applicable core elements.
Austen, Jane, Juvenilia, edited by Peter Sabor, Cambridge University Press, 2006. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austin.
Calvino, Italo. “Cybernetics and Ghosts.”The Uses of Literature: Essays. Trans. Patrick Creagh. Harcourt, 1982, pp. 3-27.
Chiavaroli, Neville and Constant J. Mews, translators. "Ex epistolis duorum amantium (From the letters of two lovers)." The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France, Constant J. Mews, Palgrave, 2001, pp. 181-289.
Updike, John. “No Breaks.” Rev. of Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, by Richard Lingeman. New Yorker 4 Feb. 2002, pp. 77-80.
For additional assistance with citation styles, consult your professor or the research help service at the Mount Library.
You can reach the Library by email: library@msvu.ca. Please note: The Library will help you as much as possible but they may also refer you back to your professor.
An e-book—that is, a book that lacks a URL and that you use software to read on a personal device or computer—is considered a version according to the MLA Handbook’s template of core elements:
MLA Handbook. 8th ed., e-book, Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
If you know the type of e-book you consulted (e.g., Kindle, EPUB), specify it instead of “e-book”:
MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Kindle ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
When citing an e-book in your text, avoid using device-specific numbering systems. See section 3.3.3 for suggestions on alternative ways to identify the parts of a work.
From: https://style.mla.org/2016/06/23/citing-an-e-book/