Citation description:
Author's last name, First name Middle initial (if any). Title. Publisher, Year of publication.
Citation example:
Gamson, Joshua. R. Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America. University of California Press, 1994.
Books with two authors:
Citation description:
First author's last name, First name Middle initial (if any), and Second author's First name Middle initial (if any) Last name. Title. Publisher, Year of publication.
Citation example:
Stewart, David W., and David H. Furse. Effective Television Advertising: A Study of 1000 Commercials. Lexington Books, 1986.
Books with more than two authors: Note: List only the first author's last name, First name Middle initial (if any) followed by a comma and the words et al.
Citation description:
First author's last name, First name Middle initial (if any), et al.Title. Publisher, Year of publication.
Citation examples:
Jonson, Albert, et al. Information Access.
Baker, Nellie, et al. Book Publishing. U of Chicago P, 1992.
Citation description:
Editor's last name, First name Middle initial (if any), editor. Title. Publisher, Year of publication.
Citation example:
Baughman, Cynthia, editor. Women on Ice: Feminist Essays on the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle. Routledg, 1995.
Citation description:
Author's last name, First name Middle initial (if any). "Title of Chapter or Essay." Title of Book, edited by Editor's first and last name, Publisher, Year of publication, Page numbers for the chapter.
Citation example:
Fox, Aaron A. "
Citation description:
Author's last name, First name Middle initial (if any). "Title of Essay, Article, Story, or Poem." Title of Book, Publisher, Year of publication, Page numbers for the essay, article, story, or poem.
Citation examples:
Twain, Mark. "To the Person Sitting in Darkness." The complete essays of Mark Twain [pseud.]., Doubleday, 1963, pp.250-72.
Carter, Angela. "The Tiger's Bride." Burning Your Boats: The Collected Stories, Penguin, 1995, pp.154-69.
Citation description:
Author's last name, First name Middle initial (if any). Title of Book. Edition if any, Year of publication for the Title cited. Title of the multivolume publicaton, volume number, Publisher, Year of publication for the collection.
Citation example:
Twain, Mark. The adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mississippi ed., 1923. Mark Twain's works, vol. 1, Harper & brothers, 1923-1924.
You may include the total number of volumes in the multivolume publication if it helps your reader to track down the original source (MLA Handbook 51). Add the information at the end. For the above example:
Twain, Mark. The adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mississippi ed., 1923. Mark Twain's works, vol. 1, Harper & brothers, 1923-1924. 22 vols.
Citation description:
Author's last name, First name Middle initial (if any). Title of issue. Title of series, Issue no, Publisher, Year of publication of the issue.
Citation example:
Pérez, George. Destiny calling. Wonder Woman, no. 4, DC Comics, 2006.
For more examples, please see Citation Examples for Books.