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MLA Citation Style - 8th Edition

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Book Examples

Check out the "How to Build a Citation" section for more information on how to find and format individual elements of the citation.
If an element is not present (e.g. other contributors), leave it out.

 

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.

Check out the "How to Build a Citation" section for more information on how to find and format individual elements of the citation.
If an element is not present (e.g. other contributors), leave it out.

 

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, ebrary).

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.