Note: All citations should be double-spaced. They are single spaced on this handout to save space. The guide uses underlining instead of italics for titles in order to remain consistant with the examples given in the MLA Handbook, 5th ed. However, MLA, 5th ed, does note (p. 65) that you may use italics rather than underlining when typing titles but suggests that you check with your instructor to determine their preference.

Book by a Single Author/Editor
Kasson, John F. Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America

1776-1900. New York: Penguin, 1976.

Book by Multiple Authors/Editors
Ehrenreich, Barbara, and John Ehrenreich, eds. The American Health Empire: Power, Profits,

and Politics. New York: Vintage, 1971.

Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler, eds. Cultural Studies. New York:

Routeledge, 1992.

Hall, Stuart, et al. Policing the Crisis. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979

If, instead of authors, the names of editors, translators or compilers appear on the title pages, then their name(s) should be listed. A comma should come after the name(s) and the proper abbreviation (eds., trans., or comps.) should follow the comma. If MORE THAN three persons authored/edited the book, only the first name (reversed) should appear, followed by a comma and "et al."

Corporate Authorship
Alan Guttmacher Institute. State Legislative Record: 1988 Fertility- Related Bills and Laws as of

December 31. Washington, D.C.: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1988.

A corporate author can be a commission, association, committee, etc. If the corporate author and the publisher are the same, the corporate author's name should still appear in the author position of a bibliographic entry as well as in the publisher position.

Edited Collections - no author given
Fee, Elizabeth, and Daniel M. Fox, eds. AIDS: The Burdens of History.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Anthologies/Book Parts/Translations
If you refer to an article within an edited collection (book chapter, short stories, introduction, etc.) then the bibliographic entry should begin with the author of the referenced text. The name(s) of the editor(s), compiler(s), translator(s) in first name/last name order should follow the title of the publication preceded by "Ed." "Trans." "Comp". Note: Page numbers of the article are included at the end of the citation.

Zola, Irving Kenneth. "Medicine as an Institution of Social Control." The American Health Empire:

Power, Profits, and Politics. Eds. Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich. New

York: Vintage, 1971. 80-100.

Constantine, Macaroni. Pasta Luega. Trans. George Elbow. Ed. Milo Linguini.

New York: Ittegaps, 1999.

If you mainly reference the specific comments and work of the translator, then the translator's name (reversed) should appear first, followed by a comma, "trans.", and a period. The author's name (in normal order), preceded by "By", should appear after the text's title.

Nice, Richard, trans. Outline of a Theory of Practice. By Pierre Bourdieu. Ed. Billy Bob

Horton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Book in a Series
Shilstone, Frederick W. Approaches to Teaching Byron's Poetry. Approaches

to Teaching World Literature 36. New York: MLA, 1991.

Multivolume Works
Make reference to specific volumes and page numbers within the text of your paper. When using only one volume in a multivolume work, insert the number of the volume you are using between the title and the publication information for that volume.

Lucas, Robert E., Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent, eds. Rational Expectations and Econometric

Practice. Vol. 1. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.

You may also add the total number of volumes at the end of the entry. If the volume has a different title from the entire work, your citation will appear as follows:

Arendt, Hannah. Imperialism. London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968.

Vol. 2 of The Origins of Totalitarianism. 3 vols

Encyclopedia Articles (article unsigned and signed)
"Mealworm." Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1987 ed.

Garvey, Lawrence. "El Paso, Illinois." Encyclopedia Americana. 1982 ed.

Government Publications
The typical citation for a government document begins with the author. If no author is given, begin by identifying the government (United States, Mississippi, Mexico, etc.) and the agency that issued the document. Include the title of the publication, place, publisher and date.

New York State. Commission on the Adirondacks in the Twenty-First Century. The Adirondack

Park in the Twenty-First Century. Albany: State of New York, 1990.

For congressional documents, include number and session of Congress and the type and number of the publication before the publishing information.

United States. Congressional Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl

Harbor Attack. Hearings 79th Cong., 1st and 2nd sess. 32 vols. Washington: GPO, 1970.

For Congressional Records, include only the date and page numbers.

Cong. Record. 8 January 1988: 2890-2899.

Conference Proceedings
Conference proceedings are cited the same way as a book with the addition of all pertinent conference information.

Gavin, McCloud, ed. Restoring Sunken Vessels. Proc. of the Maritime and Shipping Industry's

Annual Conference on Ship Building, May 1990, U of Maryland. Annapolis: Annapolis

Press, 1991.

Presentations in proceedings are treated like works in a collection.

Mann, Humphrey. "Hemingway Reassessed." The Great American Writers: Proceedings of the

Eleventh Annual Research Symposium on Literature, Boston, 21-23 April 1999.

Ed. Tom Hanks. Boston: University of Mass, 1999. 83-99.

ERIC Document - Materials Accessed Through a Computer Service
Include the following information: Author name (if given); publication information; title of the database (underlined); publication medium (Online); name of the computer service (EbscoHost, Silverplatter, etc.); date of access.

Guidelines for Family Television Viewing. Urbana: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early

Childhood Education, 1990. ERIC. Online. EbscoHost. 22 Nov. 1998.

Footnotes or Endnotes in a Works Cited Page
Do not list the indirect source (the text listed in the endnote or footnote) in your bibliography. Only mention the actual source in which you found the information.

Harris, James. Scientists of Our Century. New York: Bantam, 1992.

Second Work by Same Author
If an author or authors have their names on more than one text, check to see if the authorship of both texts is identical. If, and only if, the authors are in fact identical, then the listing for the second entry should be replaced with three hyphens and a period.

Hall, Stuart. "Cold, Comfort, Farm." New Socialist Nov. 1985: 10-12.
---. "Thatcherism: A New Stage?" Marxism Today Feb. 1980: 22-27.
Hall, Stuart. et al. Policing the Crisis. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979

No Author Identified
If no author can be identified, then a text is alphabetized by the first word of its title, excluding definite or indefinite articles (note that "The Shepherd's Consort" precedes Tesh, Sylvia Noble).

"The Shepherd's Consort." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed.

M.H. Abrams. 4th ed. Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1979. 2 vols.
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. Hidden Arguments. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers

University Press, 1988.

Journal with Continuous Pagination (page numbers continue from one issue to the next)
Note that with this type of journal, issue numbers are not necessary and the year is sufficient for the date.

Gardner, Eric. "'This Attempt of Their Sister': Harriet Wilson's Our Nig from Printer to Readers."

New England Quarterly 66 (1993): 226-46.

Journal with Non-Continuous Pagination (each issue has separate page numbering)
Note here that the volume number (26) is followed by a period and then by the issue number (3); note also that the date is more specific than simply the year.

Magistrale, Tony. "Wild Child: Jim Morrison's Poetic Journeys." Journal of Popular Culture 26.3

(Winter 1992): 133-44.

Article in a Weekly Periodical
Note that volume numbers are not listed for magazines. Periodical titles should be underlined.

Whitaker, Mark. "Getting Tough at Last." Newsweek 10 May 1993: 22.

Interviews
Nelson, Cary. Personal interview. 15 Sept. 1987.

Villalobos, Joaquin. Interview. Mother Jones July 1992: 8-10.

Rico, Jose. Interview. Afternoon Edition. WILL Public Radio.

Urbana, IL. 23 Sept. 1992.

Films and Videotapes
Begin with the title, which should be underlined, followed by the director's name. Then, include any additional information that you find relevant, such as the names of lead actors. End with the distributor and year, separated by a comma.

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. Dir. Al Smith. With Winnie the

Pooh and Piglet. Walt Disney Home Video, 1985.

Recordings
With commercial recordings, begin with the name of the contributor being cited. Then cite the title, the artist(s), the manufacturer, the catalog number, and the year of release. When using a medium other than a record, state the medium (eg. CD), immediately after the title. Underline the title of the record but as in musical compositions, do not underline titles identified by form, number, and key only. If necessary, state at the end of the entry, any relevant characteristics of the recording and whether the recording is no longer available. Cite spoken, non-musical recordings the same way. When citing jacket notes or any text accompanying a recording, state (in the following order), the author's name,the title of the material and a description of the ma terial (e.g. jacket notes) followed by the normal bibliography information mentioned above.

Lloyd Webber, Andrew. Phantom of the Opera. With Michael Crawford.

Cond. Don Just. Geffen, 2GGS 2030, 1984.

Computer Software
Writer of the program (if known), an underlined title of the program, the version of the program, a descriptive label, the distributor and the year of publication. At the end of the entry, add relevant information such as the operating system the program needs, number of kilobytes and form of the program. The medium can be, but is not limited to the following: online, CD-ROM, floppy disk, magnetic tapes. Pagination in electronic references is unavailable in many cases, thus left out of the citation.

Chen, Roger. Visdata. Vers. 1.1. Computer software. Viscal, 1986.

IBM PC-DOS 2.0, 256KB, disk.

Computer or Internet Resources
Almost all of the following is taken directly from the MLA Website's "MLA Style - FAQ" found through (http://www.mla.org/). Entries in a works-cited list for computer or Internet resources contain as many items from the list below as are relevant and available.

1. Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source (if available and relevant), reversed for alphabetizing and followed by an abbreviation, such as ed., if appropriate
2. Title of a poem, short story, article, or similar short work within a scholarly project, database, or periodical (in quotation marks); or title of a posting to a discussion list or forum (taken from the subject line and put in quotation marks), followed by the description Online posting
3. Title of a book (underlined)
4. Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant and if not cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such as Ed.
5. Publication information for any print version of the source
6. Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or personal site (underlined); or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as Home page
7. Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database (if available)
8. Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume number, issue number, or other identifying number
9. Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting
10. For a work from a subscription service, the name of the service and--if a library is the subscriber--the name and city (and state abbreviation, if necessary) of the library
11. For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum
12. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are numbered
13. Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the Web site
14. Date when the researcher accessed the source
15. Electronic address, or URL, of the source (in angle brackets); or, for a subscription service, the URL of the service's main page (if known) or the keyword assigned by the service

Scholarly Project
Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997

<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>.

Professional Site
Portuguese Language Page. U of Chicago. 1 May 1997

<http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/port/>.

Personal Site
Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 May 1997 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>.

Book
Nesbit, E[dith]. Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. London, 1908. Victorian Women Writers

Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997

<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ nesbit/ballsoc.html>.

Poem
Nesbit, E[dith]. "Marching Song." Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. London, 1908.

Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. 26 Apr. 1997

<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html#p9>.

Article in a Reference Database
"Fresco." Britannica Online. Vers. 97.1.1. Mar. 1997. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 29 Mar. 1997

<http:// www.eb.com:180>.

Article in a Journal
Flannagan, Roy. "Reflections on Milton and Ariosto." Early Modern Literary Studies 2.3 (1996):

16 pars. 22 Feb. 1997 <http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/02-3/flanmilt.html>.

Article in a Magazine
Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 2 May 1997

<http:// www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/Economics.asp>.

Article from a Subscription Service (i.e. EbscoHost, Lexis-Nexis, etc.) Note: If a library is the subscriber, include the library name, city and state.

Wildstrom, Stephen H. "A Big Boost for Net Privacy." Business Week Apr. 5, 1999: 23.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe. USM Cook Lib., Hattiesburg, MS. 5 August 1999.

<http://web.lexis-nexis.com/cis>.

"Table Tennis." Compton's Encyclopedia Online. Vers. 2.0. 1997. America Online. 4 July 1998.

Keyword: Compton's.

Fullilove v. Klutznick. 448 U.S. 448.448-554. No. 78-1007. US Supreme Court. 1980. Online.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe. Hattiesburg, MS. 5 August 1999.

<http://web.lexis-nexis.com/cis>.

Posting to a Discussion List
Merrian, Joanne. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre." Online posting. 30 Apr. 1994.

Shaksper: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference. 27 Aug. 1997

<http://www.arts.ubc.ca/english/iemls/shak/ MONSTERP_SPINOFF.txt>.

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