MLA

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MLA

• Reference and Dissertations

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5.6.8. Articles in Reference Books

• Do not cite the editor of a reference work.
• If the article is signed, give the author.
• If the article is unsigned, give the title.
• If articles are arranged alphabetically, omit
  volume and page.

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Familiar Reference Works

• Do not give full publication information
• Alzimuthal Equidistant Projection.
  Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary. 10th
  ed. 1992.
• Mandarin. The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed.

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Citing a Specific Definition

• Noon. Def. 4b. The Oxford English Dictionary.
  2nd ed. 1989.

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Less Familiar Reference Works

• Give full publication information.
• Le Patourel, John. Normans and Normandy.
  Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph R.
  Strayer. 13 vols. New York Scribners, 1987.

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5.6.26 Unpublished Dissertation

• Boyle, Anthony T. The Epistemological Evolution
  of Renaissance Utopian Literature, 1516-1657.
  Diss. New York U, 1983.

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Unpublished Thesis

• Dates Casey, Diane. Scriptural Modification in
  John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress. MA thesis.
  Ohio State U, 1972.