Books and Anthologies

Please note that these will still need to be formatted with the proper indentations, which can be found back on the main MLA page.

Optional for MLA 8

Date of original publication
City of publication
Multivolume publication
Indicating if a work is part of a series
Indicating if a work is a transcript or a lecture/address
Original publication source
Date of access

Books

Template

Last name, first of author. Book Title. Publisher, Year.

Single Author

Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford UP, 2011.

Two Authors

Dorris, Michael, and Louise Erdich. The Crown of Columbus. HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.

Three or More

Burdick, Anne, et al. Digital_Humanities. MIT P, 2012.

Translation (without an author)

Beowulf. Translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, edited by Sarah Anderson, Pearson, 2004.

Prioritizing a Translation in Your Paper

Pevear, Richard, and Larissa Volokhonsky, translators. Crime and Punishment. By Feodor Dostoevsky, Vintage eBook, 1993.

Sullivan, Alan, and Timothy Murphy, translators. Beowulf. Edited by Sarah Anderson, Pearson, 2004.

Online Text

Poe, Edgar. Allan. “The Masque of the Red Death.” The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison, vol. 4, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902, pp. 250-58. HathiTrust Digital Library, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.3192407957368;view-1up;seq=266.

Anthologies

Template

Last name, first of author. “Chapter Title.” Collection’s Title, edited by___, Publisher, year, pp. #-#.

Edited Collection

Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.

Independent Work in a Collection

Euripides. The Trojan Women. Ten Plays, translated by Pail Roche, New American Library, 1998, pp. 457-512.

Contributor Independent of Collection

Fagih, Ahmed Ibrahim al-. The Singing of the Stars. Translated by Leila El Khalidi and Christopher Tingley. Short Arabic Plays: An Anthology, edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Interlink Books, 2003, pp. 140-57.