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MLA Reference List Examples:
Type of Source
Format
Example
Book with one author
Last name, First name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Year.
Sampson, Ralph. My Life: A Slam Dunk. Rocket Publishing, 1988.
Book with two authors
Last name, First name, and First name Last name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Year.
Alderman, Ellen and Caroline Kennedy. The Right to Privacy. Knopf, 1995.
Book with three or more authors
Last name, First name, et al. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Year.
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et. al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State UP, 2004.
Book prepared by an editor
Last name, First name of Author. Title of Book. Edited by Editor’s Name(s). Publisher, Publication Year.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Edited by Margaret Smith, Oxford UP, 1998.
Article in encyclopedia
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Reference Book, edited by Editor’s Name(s), Volume number. Publisher, Year of publication.
Jones, Malcom. “Scatology.” Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, edited by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow, 2nd ed., vol. 3, ABC- CLIO, 2016.
Article in scholarly journal
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal. Volume, Issue, Year of publication, Page range.
Duvall, John N. “The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo’s White Noise.” Arizona Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 3, 1994, pp. 127-53.
Novel or play in an anthology
Last name, First name. “Title of Novel or Play.” Title of Anthology, edited by Editor’s Name(s). Publisher, Year. Page range.
Poe, Edgar Alan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Scary Stories and Terrible Tales, edited by John Davis. Harbor Press, 1996, pp. 24-30.
Entire website
Author or Editor (if available). Name
of Website. Publisher of site, Date of resource creation (if available), URL or DOI. Date accessed.
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2018, owl.english.purdue.edu/ owl. Accessed 10 Apr. 2018.
A page on a website
Author or Editor (if available). “Title of Article.” Name of Website. Publisher of site, Date of resource creation (if available), URL or DOI. Date accessed.
Lundman, Susan. “How to Make Vegetarian Chili.” eHow, www.ehow. com/how_10727_make-vegetarian- chili.html. Accessed 6 July 2015.
Article from online database
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Source. Volume, Issue, Year, Page range. Title of Database. DOI or URL. Date accessed.
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. Accessed 27 May 2009.
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