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MLA Works Cited Documentation

Updated to reflect 2016 revisions

Note: These citations serve as examples of how to format entries on Works Cited pages of student

research papers. These examples may or may not be actual published literary works, and you should not

be disappointed if the Internet Web site URLs are not functional. Again, this page is simply a set of

examples to help you format a paper written in MLA style.

When creating your Works cited page, remember to:

 Begin the Works Cited on a new page, but number consecutively (i.e., if the last page of your essay is page 3, the Works Cited is page 4).

 Alphabetize each entry by first letter in the citation, usually the author’s last name. o However, if a work has no author, begin by alphabetizing the first key word in its title,

ignoring articles (a, an, the).

 Italicize the titles of all independent, stand-alone works, such as books, magazines, films, newspapers, works of art, titles of CDs, titles of TV shows, and epic poems.

 Put quotation marks around any work that is part of a larger whole, such as poems, short stories, articles, specific episodes of TV shows, specific songs on CDs, and essays.

o If an independent, stand-alone work, such as a play, is anthologized, use italics for both the title of the work and the title of the anthology. (For examples, see “Work in an anthology or

collection” below.)

 Indent all lines in the citation after the first by ½ inch. This is called a “hanging indent,” and you can find instructions using the Help function.

 Double-space the entire Works Cited page, and do not include extra line spaces anywhere. The examples below are single-spaced only to save space on this handout.

Major Changes to the 8 th

edition of MLA—Web Sources:

 The URL (without http:// or https://) is now normally given for a Web source. Angle brackets (< and >) are not used around it.

 If a DOI is available, list it in place of the URL. If one is not available, list the URL as above.

 Placeholders for unknown information like n.d. (“no date”) are no longer used.

 Access dates for online materials are not required, but are especially encouraged when there is no copyright date listed on a website. Your professor may require the access date; in which case, it is

written Accessed 10 Oct. 2016 and is the last item in the citation.

Type of

Citation

Example of Citation

Books, Anthologies, and Collections

Book (one

author)

Gorman, Elizabeth. Prairie Women. Yale UP, 1986.

Book (two

authors)

Caper, Charles, and Lawrence T. Teamos. How to Camp. Doubleday, 1986.

Book (three or

more authors)

Ellis, Doris, et al. History of Japan. Harcourt, 1989.

Book with no

author

Encyclopedia of Indiana. Somerset, 1993.

E-book,

Kindle, etc.

MLA Handbook. 8th ed., e-book, Modern Language Association of America, 2016.

MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Kindle ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016.

Book (one

editor)

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Edited by Margaret Smith, Oxford UP, 1998.

Book (two

editors)

The Oregon Trail. Edited by David J. Lockhard and Charles Heimler, Bonanza, 1992.

Book (three or

more editors)

Encyclopedia of Animal Life. Edited by Carlson, David, et al., Houghton, 1985.

Book

(corporate

author)

American Medical Association. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of

Medicine. Edited by Charles B. Clayman, Random, 1989.

Book

(translated,

emphasis on

original

authorship)

Derrida, Jacques. The Beast and the Sovereign. Translated by Geoffrey Bennington, U

of Chicago P, 2009.

Book

(translated,

emphasis on

translation)

Bennington, Geoffrey, translator. The Beast and the Sovereign. By Jacques Derrida, U

of Chicago P, 2009.

Book

available

online

Keats, John. Poetical Works. 1884. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Edited by

Steven van Leeuwen, May 1998, www.worldcat.org/title/bartlebycom-great-

books-online/oclc/43887199.

Introduction,

preface,

foreword, or

afterword to a

book

Doctorow, E. L. Introduction. Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser, Bantam, 1985. pp. v-

xi.

Elliott, Emory. Afterword. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, Signet, 1990, pp. 342-50.

Work in an

anthology or

collection

(incl. poems,

short stories,

plays, novels,

and essays)

Frost, James. “Strawberries in a Field.” Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and

Sense, edited by Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Heinle and Heinle, 2002, p.

23.

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Black Theater: A Twentieth Century

Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights, edited by Lindsay Patterson,

Dodd, 1971, pp. 221-76.

Work in an

anthology or

collection of

multiple

volumes

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl." 1863. The Heath

Anthology of American Literature. Edited by Paul Lauter, et al, 5th ed., vol. 1,

Heath, 1994, pp. 2425-33.

Work in an

anthology

(translated)

Allende, Isabel. “Toad’s Mouth.” Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. A Hammock

beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America, edited by Thomas Colchie,

Plume, 1992, pp. 83-88.

Government

publication

United States, Congress, Senate, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearing

on the Geopolitics of Oil. Government Printing Office, 2007, 110th Congress,

1st session, Senate Report 111-8.

Book, later

edition

Blamires, Harry. The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide through Ulysses. 3rd

ed., Routledge, 1996.

Reference Works

Encyclopedia

article

(signed)

Barnridge, Thomas H. “Baseball.” World Book Encyclopedia, 2001.

Encyclopedia

article

(unsigned)

"Egypt." The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 2002.

Encyclopedia

article (online)

"Egypt." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Version 97.1.1, Mar. 1997, Encyclopedia

Britannica, 29 Feb. 2000, www.search.eb.com/. Accessed 29 Sept. 2016.

Articles

Magazine

article

Cannon, Angie. "Just Saying No to Tests." U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 1999, p. 34.

Magazine

article (online

news

subscription

service)

Cannon, Angie. "Just Saying No to Tests." U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 1999, p. 34.

SIRS Researcher, www.sirsresearcher.com.

Web

magazine

article

Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who

Make Websites, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving.

Magazine

article in print

archived in an

online

database

(EBSCOhost,

JSTOR)

Barrera, Rebecca Maria. “A Case for Bilingual Education.” Scholastic Parent and

Child, Dec. 2004, pp. 72-3. Academic Search Premier, www.url.com. Accessed

10 Oct. 2016.

Magazine or

newspaper

editorial

“Of Mines and Men.” Editorial. Wall Street Journal, eastern edition, 24 Oct. 2003, p.

A14.

Newspaper

article

(signed)

Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington

Post, 24 May 2007, p. LZ01.

Newspaper

article

(unsigned)

"Gorilla Attacks Martian." National Enquirer, 16 Mar. 1999, A-14.

Newspaper

article (online

news

subscription

service)

Bradley, Donald. "Is There a Right Way?" Kansas City Star, 23 May 1999, pp. 2-4.

SIRS Researcher. www.sirsresearcher.com. Accessed 12 Apr. 2015.

Newspaper

article in print

(online

database

EBSCOhost,

JSTOR)

Richardson, Lynda. “Minority Students Languish in Special Education.” New York

Times, 6 Apr. 1994, late ed., A1+. EBSCOhost, www.url.com.

Review (print,

untitled)

Weiller, K. H. Review of Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and

Media Representations, edited by Linda K. Fuller. Choice, Apr. 2007, p. 1377.

Review

(online, titled)

Hoberman, J. “Avatar’s Sticker Shock (and Awe).” Review of Avatar, directed by

James Cameron, The Village Voice, Village Voice, LLC, 15 Dec. 2009,

www.url.com.

Scholarly

article (print

journal)

Piper, Andrew. “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything.”

PMLA, vol. 121, no. 1, 2006, pp. 124-38.

Scholarly

article (online

only journal)

Dolby, Nadine. “Research in Youth Culture and Policy: Current Conditions and Future

Directions.” Social Work and Society: The International Online-Only

Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 2008, www.socwork.net/sws/article/view/60/362.

Scholarly

article in a

print journal

archived in an

online

database (e.g.,

Literature

Resource

Center,

JSTOR,

EBSCOhost,

etc.) or other

subscription

service

Alonso, Alvaro, and Julio A. Camargo. "Toxicity of Nitrite to Three Species of

Freshwater Invertebrates." Environmental Toxicology, vol. 21, no. 1, 3 Feb.

2006, pp. 90-94. Wiley Online Library, doi: 10.1002/tox.20155.

If a DOI is not provided, use the URL instead.

Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century

England.” Historical Journal, vol. 50, no. 1, 2007, pp. 173-96. ProQuest, doi:

10.1017/S0018246X06005966.

Hannah, Daniel K. "The Private Life, the Public Stage: Henry James in Recent Fiction."

Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 30, no. 3, 2007, pp. 70-94. JSTOR,

www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.uwf.edu/stable/30053134.

Note: When including a URL, omit the http:// and https://

Scholarly

article

(republished

in an

anthology or

collection)

Roberts, Sheila. “A Confined World: A Rereading of Pauline Smith.” World Literature

Written in English, vol. 24, 1984, pp. 232-38. Reported in Twentieth Century

Literature Criticism, edited by Dennis Poupard, vol. 25. Gale, 1988, pp. 399-

402.

Websites

Web site

(whole)

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U,

2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl.

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov.

2003, www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/.

Farkas, Meredith. Information Wants to Be Free. Jun. 2015, meredith.wolfwater.com.

Page/Article

on a Web site

"Athlete's Foot - Topic Overview." WebMD, 25 Sept. 2014, www.webmd.com/skin-

problems-and-treatments/tc/athletes-foot-topic-overview.

Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow,

www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.

Literature on a

Web site

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Twice-Told Tales. Edited by George Parsons Lathrop, Houghton,

1883, 1 Mar. 2002, http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/ttt.html.

Multimedia

Advertisement Head and Shoulders. Advertisement. Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2008, p. 2.

Films or

movies

The Usual Suspects. Directed by Bryan Singer, performances by Kevin Spacey, Gabriel

Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, and Benecio del Toro, Polygram,

1995.

Lucas, George, director. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Twentieth Century Fox,

1977.

Television

shows

(broadcast

television

episodes)

"The One Where Chandler Can't Cry." Friends: The Complete Sixth Season, written by

Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen, directed by Kevin Bright, Warner Brothers,

2004.

Netflix, Hulu,

Google Play

“94 Meetings.” Parks and Recreation, season 2, episode 21, NBC, 29 Apr. 2010,

Netflix, www.netflix.com/watch/70152031?trackId=200256157&tctx=0%2C20

%2C0974d361-27cd-44de-9c2a-2d9d868b9f64-12120962.

Entire TV

series

Daniels, Greg and Michael Schur, creators. Parks and Recreation. Deedle-Dee

Productions and Universal Media Studios, 2015.

Photograph

(personal)

Reese, J. P. Summer Garden. 2009. Photograph. Private collection.

Photograph,

sculpture,

painting, or

line drawing

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Peurat, Dolly Hellman. Bird Flying Machine. 1973. Central Park, New York.

Photograph,

sculpture,

painting, or

line drawing

(published

online)

Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo Nacional del Prado,

Madrid. Museo Nacional del Prado, www.museodelprado.es/en/the-

collection/art-work/the-family-of-carlos-iv/f47898fc-aa1c-48f6-a779-

71759e417e74. Accessed 25 Aug. 2014.

Song or

Album Spotify

Rae Morris. “Skin.” Cold, Atlantic Records, 2014, Spotify,

open.spotify.com/track/0OPES3Tw5r86O6fudK8gxi.

Online Album Beyoncé. “Pray You Catch Me.” Lemonade, Parkwood Entertainment,

2016, www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/.

CD Nirvana. "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Nevermind, Geffen, 1991.

Podcasts “Best of Not My Job Musicians.” Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! from NPR, 4 June

2016, http://www.npr.org/podcasts/344098539/wait-wait-don-t-tell-me.

Digital files

(PDFs, MP3s,

JPEGs)

Beethoven, Ludwig van. Moonlight Sonata. Crownstar, 2006.

Smith, George. “Pax Americana: Strife in a Time of Peace.” 2005. Microsoft Word file.

Council of Writing Program Administrators, National Council of Teachers of English,

and National Writing Project. Framework for Success in Postsecondary

Writing. CWPA, NCTE, and NWP, 2011, wpacouncil.org/files/framework-for-

success-postsecondary-writing.pdf.

Bentley, Phyllis. “Yorkshire and the Novelist.” The Kenyon Review, vol. 30, no. 4,

1968, pp. 509-22. JSTOR, www.jstor.org.iii/stable/4334841.

Miscellaneous

E-mail Kunka, Andrew. "Re: Modernist Literature." Received by John Watts, 15 Nov. 2000.

Interview

(personal)

Pei, I.M. Personal interview. 22 Mar. 1993.

Interview

(telephone)

Reed, Ishmail. Telephone interview. 10 Dec. 2007.

Interview

(published or

broadcast)

Gaitskill, Mary. Interview with Charles Bock. Mississippi Review, vol. 27, no 3, 1999,

pp. 129-50.

Interview

(published

online only)

Zinkievich, Craig. Interview by Gareth Von Kallenbach. Skewed & Reviewed, 27 Apr.

2009, www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/1056940-

skewed-%2526-reviewed-interviews-craig.

Legal source Brown v. Board of Educ. 347 US 483-96. Supreme Court of the US. 1954. Supreme

Court Collection, Legal Information Inst., Cornell U Law School, 3 Aug. 2009.

Blog post,

Listserv,

discussion

group

Salmar1515 [Sal Hernandez]. “Re: Best Strategy: Fenced Pastures vs. Max Number of

Rooms?” BoardGameGeek, 29 Sept. 2008,

boardgamegeek.com/thread/343929/best-strategy-fenced-pastures-vs-max-

number-rooms. Accessed 5 Apr. 2009.

Tweet @tombrokaw. “SC demonstrated why all the debates are the engines of this campaign.”

Twitter, 22 Jan. 2012, 3:06 a.m.,

twitter.com/tombrokaw/status/160996869714320.

@PurdueWLab. “Spring break is around the corner, and all our locations will be open

next week.” Twitter, 5 Mar. 2012, 12:58 p.m.,

twitter.com/PurdueWLab/status/176728308763737282.

YouTube

video

“8 Hot Dog Gadgets Put to the Test.” YouTube, uploaded by Crazy Russian Hacker, 6

June 2016, www.youtube/watch?v=WBlpjSEtELs.

McGonigal, Jane. “Gaming and Productivity.” YouTube, uploaded by Big Think, 6 July

2016, www.youtube/watch?v=mkdzy9bWW3E.

Pamphlet Women's Health: Problems of the Digestive System. American College of Obstetricians

and Gynecologists, 2006.