MLA Works Cited Entries

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MLA Works Cited Entries

• Overview Books and Parts of Books

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A Novel or Other Book(single author, first
edition)

• Carter, Angela.  Wise Children.  New York
  Farrar, 1991.
  
• We begin with the author, last name first, and a
  period.
  
• Add the title, underlined or italicized, and a
  period.
  
• Do NOT indicate editions for first editions.
• Follow with the first city of publication listed
  and a colon.
  
• Follow with the abbreviated name of the publisher
  (see WGMLAD for a list of standardized
  abbreviations) and a comma.
  
• Follow with the year and a period.

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A Novel or Other Book(two authors, second
edition)

• Jones, Greg, and Mark Smith. The Last Frontier.
  2nd ed.
  
• New York Free, 2001.
• Note that you do not reverse the name of the
  second author and that you have a comma in front
  of and even though you only have two names in
  the series.
• When you underline a books title, dont
  underline the period.
  
• Do not capitalize ed. for edition.
• When an entry takes up more than one line, indent
  the second and subsequent lines one tab.
  
• All entries are double spaced.

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An Anthology

• Tatar, Maria, ed. The Classic Fairy Tales
  Texts, Criticism. New
  
• York Norton, 1999.
• When you have multiple works from an anthology,
  you will have a simplified entry (a
  cross-reference) for each work, and a separate
  entry for the anthology itself.
• If there had been more than one editor, you would
  write the abbreviations for editors after their
  names eds.
  
• Subtitles of books are set off with colons.

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Cross-References

• Jacobs, Joseph. Molly Whuppie. Tatar 209-11.
• Begin with the name of the author of the work in
  the anthology and a period.
  
• Follow with the title of the story or essay from
  the anthology enclosed in quotation marks and a
  period.
  
• Follow with the anthology editors last name (no
  period) and the inclusive page numbers of the
  work.
  
• With numbers over a hundred, drop the first
  numeral of the last page number as long as it is
  in the same range of a hundred (213-78 instead of
  213-278).

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Cross-References

• Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm. Cinderella.
  Trans. Maria
  
• Tatar. Tatar 117-22.
• Sometimes a work from an anthology has been
  translated from another language. In this case,
  the editor of the anthology is also the
  translator of the work.
• The translator follows the title of the work and
  the abbreviation for translator.
  
• Note the periods after trans. and the
  translators last name.
  
• Note the format of the works page numbers.

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Cross-References

• The Story of the Black Cow. Tatar 125-27.
• If an essay or story in an anthology doesnt have
  an author given, begin with the next item in
  order for a works cited entry the title.
  
• When you are preparing the works cited page, all
  the entries on the page will be organized
  alphabetically.
  
• Ignore a, an, and the when alphabetizing,
  but retain them and leave them at the beginning
  of the title.
  
• Remember that with a cross-reference, the
  editors last name is used in place of the rest
  of the anthologys publication information.
  

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Cross-References

• Tatar, Maria, ed. The Classic Fairy Tales
  Texts, Criticism.
  
• New York Norton, 1999.
• ---. Introduction. Tatar ix-xvii.
• Sometimes you use an introduction from an
  anthology.
  
• Treat it like any other work, but do not enclose
  the word introduction in quotation marks.
  
• When you have the same person beginning more than
  one entry on a works cited page, alphabetize by
  the first important word of the title, and use
  three hyphens for the persons name in all
  entries after the first.

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Cross-References

• Works Cited
• Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm. Cinderella.
  Trans.
  
• Tatar. Tatar 117-22.
• Jacobs, Joseph. Molly Whuppie. Tatar 209-11.
• The Story of the Black Cow. Tatar 125-27.
• Tatar, Maria. The Classic Fairy Tales Texts,
  Criticism.
  
• New York Norton, 1999.

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One Work From an Anthology

• Jacobs, Joseph. Molly Whuppie. The Classic
  Fairy Tales Texts,
  
• Criticism. Ed. Maria Tatar. New York Norton,
  1999.
  
• 145-55.
• When you have only one work from an anthology,
  all the information goes into a single entry.
  
• Begin with the author and title of the work.
• Follow with the name of the anthology.
• Follow with Ed. for edited by and the
  editors full name.
  
• Follow with city, publisher, and year.
• End with the inclusive page numbers of the
  selection.

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One Work from an Anthology

• Lowe, M. H. Mythic Elements in Yeats Poetry.
  Irish Poetry. Ed.
  
• Siobhan OConnor and Clair White. 3rd ed.
  Oxford Oxford
  
• UP, 1987. 156-79.
• Note that there is no s after Ed.remember
  that in this position, Ed. stands for edited
  by, not editors.
  
• Note that we do not reverse the names of either
  editor because they are not being used to
  alphabetize the entry.
  
• Note the UP after the second Oxfordthis
  represents Oxford University Press. Such presses
  are abbreviated to UP, not dropped in
  abbreviation.

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One Work from an Anthology

• Clarkson, Peter, et al. Quantum Physics Made
  Easy.
  
• Introduction to Physics. Ed. Lois DeLancey et
  al.
  
• 5th ed. Boston Collins, 1977. 298-312.
• In this example, et al (part of a Latin phrase
  meaning and all the others) is used to replace
  the names of authors and editors when you have
  four or more.
• Though you can write out all these names if you
  wish, you can use et al after the first author
  or editor of a work to save time and space.
  Rememberthis is only when you have four or more
  names.

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Points to Remember

• When you have one work from an anthology, all the
  information on the work and the anthology go into
  a single entry.
  
• If you use more than one work, you should
  cross-reference the editors last name takes the
  place of all the anthologys publication
  information.
• When you cross-reference, you must have a single
  entry for the anthology itself.
  
• All entries on a works cited page need to be
  organized alphabetically.
  
• All entries on a works cited page are double
  spaced (but you should not add extra spaces
  between individual entries.
  
• Indicate the edition number for any editions
  after the first.
  
• Look up the list of abbreviations for publishers
  names in your text.
  
• Pay attention to punctuation look at the
  examples here and in your text.