MLA Style Cheat Sheet (8th Edition)

Works Cited

Common Print Sources

Basic Book Citation

Last name, First name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Example: Bradway, Becky. Pink Houses and Family Taverns. Indiana University Press, 2002.

Edition other than the First

Last name, First name. Title of Book. # ed., Publisher, Publication Date.

Example: Helfer, Meredith, et al. The Battered Child. 5th ed., University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Article or Chapter in a Book

Last name, First name. “Title of Chapter.” Title of Book. Edited by Editor’s First and Last name(s), Publisher, Publication Date, pp. #-#.

Example: Boquet, Edith. “Intellectual Tug-of-War: Snapshots of Life in the Center.” The St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors, 3^rd edition, edited by Christina Murphy and Steve Sherwood. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008, pp. 116-29.

Journal Articles

Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, vol. #, no. #, Publication Date, pp. #-#.

Example: Tyson, Phyllis A., and Michael G. Gordon. “The Psychology of Women.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, vol. 46, 1998, pp. 361-64.

Bernstein, Barton J. “Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Diplomatic History, vol. 28, no. 3, 1991, pp. 126-129.

Magazine/Newspaper Article

Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical, Edition, Publication Date, pp. #-#.

Example: Kramer, Cosmo F. “A Health Threat Baffling for Its Lack of a Pattern.” New York Times, national edition, 22 June 2003, p.A14.

Peterman, Jay S. “Eat This Now!” US News and World Report, 28 Mar. 2005, p. 56-58.