MLA-Based Works Cited

Two Authors
Blocker, Clyde R., and Robert H. Plummer. The Two Year College: A Social Synthesis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995.

Three or More Authors
Bondanella, Peter, et al. Dictionary of Italian Literature. Westport: Greenwood, 1998.

Two or More Books by the Same Author
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957.
_____, ed. Sound and Poetry. New York: Columbia UP, 1957.
_____. A Study of English Romanticism. New York: Random House, 1968.

Signed Newspaper Article
Collins, Glenn. "Single-Father Survey Finds Adjustment a Problem." New York Times 21 Nov. 1999, local ed.: B17.

Signed Editorial
Malkofsky, Morton. "Let the Unions Negotiate What Is Negotiable." Editorial. Learning Oct. 1998: 6.

Government Publication
United States. General Services Administration. Consumer Information Catalog. Pueblo: GPO, 1997.

Pamphlet
Grayson, George W. The North American Free Trade Agreement. New York: Foreign Policy Association, Inc., 1993.

An Interview:
Gordon, Sue. Interview. All Things Considered. Natl. Public Radio. WNYC, New York. 1 June 1999.
Parks, I.M. Personal Interview. 27 July 1999.
Peterson, Edward. Telephone Interview. 10 Dec. 1999.

Online Information Database:
"Fresco." Britannica Online. Vers. 98.2. Apr. 1998. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 8 May 1998 . Note: Do not include anything beyond ".com," ".org," or ".edu."

Article in an Online Periodical:
Kinsley, Michael. "Now Is the Summer of Too Much Content." Atlantic Monthly June 1998. 25 June 1999 .

Personal or Professional Site: Author (if given). Title of Site underlined. Date. Name of Institution or Organization associated with site. Date of access. Network address.
Romance Languages and Literatures Home Page. 1997. Dept. of Romance Langs. and Lits., U of Chicago. 8 July 1998 .

Short Work from a Web Site: Author's name (if given). Title of short work in quotation marks. Title of site, underlined. Date of publication or last update. Sponsor of the site (if not named as the author). Date of access. The URL in angle brackets.
*Usually at least some of these elements will not apply or will be unavailable. For example, in the following model, no date of publication was available. (The date given is the date on which the researcher accessed the source.)
Shiva, Vandana. "Bioethics: A Third World Issue." NativeWeb. 24 Feb. 2001 <http://www.nativeweb.org>.

To Cite a Previously Published Scholarly Article in a Collection: Give the complete data for the earlier publication and then add "Rpt. In" (Reprinted in), the title of the collection, and the new publication facts:
Frye, Northrop. "Literary and Linguistic Scholarship in a Postliterate Age." PMLA 99 (1984): 90-95. Rpt. In Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974-88. Ed. Robert D. Denham. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990. 18-27.
Roberts, Sheila. "A Confined World: A Rereading of Pauline Smith." World Literature Written in English 24 (1984): 232-38. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 299-402.

Information on a CD-ROM:
Braunmuller, A. R., ed. Hamlet. By William Shakespeare. CD-ROM. New York: Voyager, 1994.
Rodes, David S. "The Price of Success." New York Times 28 Nov. 1998. late ed.: D4. New York Times Ondisc. CD-ROM. UMI-ProQuest. Dec. 1999.

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