General Format:
AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName MiddleInitial. Title of Book. Publisher, Date.
For example:
Goulimari, Pelagia. Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism. Routledge, 2014.
General Format:
AuthorLastNameA, AuthorFirstNameA MiddleInitialA, and AuthorFirstNameB AuthorLastNameB. Title of Book. Publisher, Date.
For example:
Russell, D. A., and Michael Winterbottom. Classical Literary Criticism. Oxford UP, 2008.
General Format:
AuthorLastNameA, AuthorFirstNameA MiddleInitialA., et al. Title of Book. Publisher, Date.
For example:
Marscot, Michel et al. Applied Social Sciences. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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General Format:
AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName MiddleInitial. Title of Book. Publisher, Year Published. Title of database or website, URL or DOI.
For example:
Price, H. P. Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard UP, 1991. ACLS Humanities E-book, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.08428.0001.001.
OR
Beckford, James A. Social Theory and Religion. Cambridge UP, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/snhu-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1357382.
General Format:
AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. Title of Work. Publisher, Date,# vols.
OR
AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. Title of Work. Edition# ed., Publisher, Date,# vols.
For example:
Tucker, Spencer C. et al., editors. The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2011, 2 vols.
General Format:
AuthorLastNameA, AuthorFirstNameA. Title of Work. vol. #, Publisher, Date.
OR
AuthorLastNameA, AuthorFirstNameA. Title of Work. Edition# ed., vol. #, Publisher, Date.
For example:
Tucker, Spencer C. et al., editors. The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia. vol. 1, ABC-CLIO, 2011.
OR
Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty!: An American History. 4th ed., vol. 1, W. W. Norton & Co., 2014.
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General Format:
AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. “Title of Chapter.” Title of Book, edited by Editor’s Name(s), vol .#, Publisher, Date, pp. #.
For example:
Freeman, Kassie. "Divide And Conquer: Long-Term Consequences for Education, Economic Participation, and Higher Education Engagement." Community Engagement in Higher Education: Policy Reforms and Practice, edited by W. James Jacon et al., vol. 3, Sense Publishers, 2015, pp. 31-39.
General Format:
“Title of Article.” Title of Reference Book. Edition# ed., Date.
For example:
"Archetype." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 11th ed., 2016.
¹ You can include optional information such as series title and place of publication. See pages 50-53 of the MLA Handbook 8th edition. You can also abbreviate publishing names like "UP" for "University Press" or "U of Chicago P" for "University of Chicago Press".
² Only use this citation format if you are only using one volume.