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MLA Citation Style - 9th Edition

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Book Examples

 Citation Recipe:

  1. Author.     Taraborrelli, J. Randy.
  2. Title of source.     Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story, 1958-2009.    
  3. Title of container,
  4. Other contributors,
  5. Version,
  6. Number,
  7. Publishers,     Grand Central Publishing,
  8. Publication date,     2009.
  9. Location.

Example:

In-Text Citation:
(Taraborrelli 146-55)

Works Cited:

Taraborrelli, J. Randy. Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story, 1958-2009. Grand Central Publishing, 2009.

In this case, the e-book is a title that was originally published in print and then later made available online through another service.  To reflect this in a citation, you will include information about the e-book service in a second container description (in this case, EBSCOhost).

Citation Recipe:

  1. Author.    Wittmann, Marc and Erik Butler.
  2. Title of source.      Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time.
  3. Title of container,    
  4. Other contributors,    
  5. Version,
  6. Number,
  7. Publishers,   The MIT Press,
  8. Publication date,   2016.
  9. Location.  

Container 2 (in this case the e-book platform that hosts the e-book):

  1. Title of container,     EBSCOhost
  2. Other contributors,    
  3. Version,
  4. Number,
  5. Publishers, 
  6. Publication date,  
  7. Location.     ezproxy.southtexascollege.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1168516&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Example:

In-Text Citation:

(Wittmann and Butler 33)

Works Cited:

Wittmann, Marc and Erik Butler. Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time. The MIT Press, 2016. EBSCOhost,

ezproxy.southtexascollege.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1168516&site=eds-

live&scope=site.