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Formatting Works Cited Entries in MLA (8 Edition) : Book With One Author
Formatting Works Cited Entries in MLA (8 Edition) : Book With One Author
Note: Books are cited the same way whether you read a print version or a digital (online) version.
An Edition of a Book:
Coe, Sophie D., and Michael D. Coe. The True History of Chocolate. 3rd ed., 3
2 After the title, put the
Thames & Hudson, 2013.
Dictionary Title in italics followed by a period. edition number +
1 “ed.” + comma. End
There are two authors, so follow the format above. If the first author includes a middle the citation with the
initial, put a period after the initial, followed by a comma, then “and” + the second name. publisher + comma +
publication date.
Formatting Works Cited Entries in MLA (8th edition)
Technique for the Artisan Confectioner. The Culinary Institute of America, 2013.
1 2 3
Instead of an author’s name, put the name of the Italicize the title. If there is a Complete the citation with
organization. Leave off articles such as “The” or “A” subtitle, put a colon followed the name of the publisher
at the beginning. by the subtitle. and date of publication.
2
1 Place the title of the article in quotation marks. Italicize the name of the 3
magazine or newspaper. MLA follows a general pattern where After the name of the magazine,
Author’s
quotation marks are used for SHORT works (articles, poems, short add a comma + date of
name
stories, chapters, TV episodes, songs) while LONG works that stand publication + pp. + the pages the
alone are italicized (books, magazines, newspapers, movies, article spans in the larger work.
anthologies). Here, the article is short and is contained in the larger
work. The magazine, National Geographic, stands alone as a publication.
Formatting Works Cited Entries in MLA (8th edition)
Formatting
DATES
Magazine or Newspaper article (online):
Anytime you write a
Owles, Eric. “How Nestle Expanded Beyond the Kitchen.” New York Times,
date in MLA, use this
format: 27 June 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/business/dealbook/nestle-
Day + Month + Year
chocolate-milk-coffee-history.html. Accessed 25 Sept. 2017.
Example: 29 Sept. 2017 2
1
The names of all months The first part of this entry is the same as a print article All web sources require an
are abbreviated except (above). However, after the publication date and “access date.” Put a period
May, June, and July. comma, include the URL instead of page numbers. after the URL and write
“Accessed” + date.
Webpage:
URLs and
Klein, Christopher. “The Sweet History of Chocolate.” History, 13 Feb. 2014, DOIs
When citing a web
www.history.com/news/hungry-history/the-sweet-history-of-chocolate.
source, include the
2 URL. Leave off the
Accessed 25 Sept. 2017. Put the heading or title of 3
https://.
the page + period in Copy and paste
1 quotation marks. Then put the URL from Many databases and
Format the author’s name just as you the title of the entire the top of your online libraries
do for print sources. If the webpage website in italics + comma. browser. include a DOI (digital
ark
does not list an author, leave it off object identifier) for
and begin with the title. 4 journal articles. If a
Access date. This is the date you visited the webpage. DOI is available, use it
instead of the URL.
1 European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 51, no. 1, 15 Jan. 1997, pp. 347-55.
Author’s last
name, first ProQuest Central, www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v51/n6/pdf/1600409a.pdf. Tip:
name.
Accessed 20 Aug. 2017. 4 If a title ends
3 Add another comma and the with a question
2 mark or
Add a comma, publication date. Some journals
Put the title of the journal then the include only the month and year, exclamation
article in quotation marks, then journal others include the day, while others point, do not
name of the journal in italics, volume and use the season, such as “Spring 2016.” add a period.
just as you would for a issue number Follow the pattern set by your source.
magazine or newspaper. with the
abbreviations
6 5
“vol.” and
Always include the page span of the smaller work you
After the page numbers, “no.”
italicize the name of the are citing within a larger publication. Indicate page
7 numbers with “pp.” Shorten numbers where possible.
database through which you
Complete the citation with the Here 347‐355 has been abbreviated to 347‐55.
accessed the journal.
URL (or DOI) and access date.
Formatting Works Cited Entries in MLA (8th edition)
For an online version, add the name of
English Standard Version. Crossway, 2001. Biblegateway.com,
the website in italics + the URL. Right
click and “remove hyperlink” so the
www.biblegateway.com/versions/ESV-Bible/booklist.
formatting is correct.
If you are citing a
particular edition, NIV Study Bible. 10th Anniversary Edition, General editor, Kenneth L. Barker,
put a period after
the title and add the Tip:
Zondervan, 1995.
edition information. You may be citing a
If an editor or editorial board is listed, add that information after the version with an editor but
title and before the publication information. not an edition number or
vice versa. Simply include
Putting it All Together: whatever information is
To cite a source, you will combine the above information as necessary. relevant to your source.
Dillinger, T. L., et al. “Food of the Gods: Cure for Humanity? A Cultural History of the
Medicinal and Ritual Use of Chocolate.” Journal of Nutrition, vol. 130, no. 8, Aug. 2000,
Use a hanging Dillinger, T. L., et al. “Food of the Gods: Cure for Humanity? A Cultural History of the
indent for
Medicinal and Ritual Use of Chocolate.” Journal of Nutrition, vol. 130, no. 8, 1 Aug.
each entry.
The first line 2000, pp. 2057-72. ProQuest Central, jn.nutrition.org/content/130/8/2057S.html.
is flush with
the margin, Accessed 25 Sept. 2017. The entire page is
and every line double‐spaced,
after that is Gordon, Bertram M. “From Gold Bar to Chocolate Bar: California’s Chocolate and there is no
indented ½ additional space
History.” Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage, edited by Louis Evan
inch. You can between the
set these Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro, John Wiley and Sons, 2009, pp. 465-80. entries.
settings in the
“paragraph” Durkin, Mary Beth. “Rethinking Dessert.” National Geographic, 22 July 2016, pp. 45-52.
tab.
Klein, Christopher. “The Sweet History of Chocolate.” History 13 Feb. 2014,
www.history.com/news/hungry-history/the-sweet-history-of-chocolate. Accessed 25
Include one‐ Sept. 2017. When you insert a
inch margins URL, right click (or
on all four Krensky, Stephen, and Rob McClurkan. The Sweet Story of Hot Chocolate. Simon “control” + click on
sides of the a Mac) and “remove
paper. Put & Schuster, 2014.
hyperlink” so that
your last the text is black and
Mathiot, Ginette. France: The Cookbook. Translated by Clotilde Dusoulier, Phaidon
name and the underline is
page number Press, 2016. removed. You want
in the header, your URLs
as you do in formatted in the
the rest of
same way as the
the report. rest of the citation.