7th ed. MLA
9/18/2012
CITING PRINT SOURCES
Mountain Brook High School Library
Citing examples (based on MLA, 7th ed.) are the result of collaboration between the English Department and librarians of MBHS and are provided to facilitate student research in the Mountain Brook Schools.
Citing a Book (MLA 5.5, 7th edition)
Author’s name. “Title of a part of the book , if applicable.” Title of the book (italicized). Name of the editor, etc. Edition. Volume number.
City of publication: Name of the publisher, year of publication. Page numbers, if applicable. Medium of publication (Print). Series.
Book by a single author (MLA 5.5.2)
Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of World War I. New York: Macmillan, 1984. Print.
Book with editor only (MLA 5.5.3)
Feldman, Paula R., ed. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Print.
Books with multiple authors (MLA 5.5.4)
Broer, Lawrence R., and Gloria Holland. Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice. New York: Macmillan-Thomas, 1985. Print.
Gilman, Sander, Helen King, Roy Porter, and Elaine Showalter. Hysteria beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. Print.
Gilman, Sander, et al. Hysteria beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. Print.
Book with a corporate author (MLA 5.5.5)
American Medical Association. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine. Ed. Charles B. Clayman. New York:
Random, 1989. Print.
Introduction (MLA 5.5.8)
Sears, Barry. Introduction. The Jungle. By Upton Sinclair. New York: Signet, 2001. 1-12. Print.
Translation (MLA 5.5.11)
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. Trans. Seamus Heaney. New York: Farrar, 2000. Print.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. “The Prologue.” The Canterbury Tales. Trans. Nevill Coghill. Alabama McDougal Littell Literature: British Literature.
Evanston: McDougal, 2009. 140-62. Print.
Anthology (MLA 5.5.6)
Francisco, Edward, Robert Vaughan, and Linda Francisco, comps. The South in Perspective: An Anthology of Southern Literature.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1975. Print.
Work in an anthology (MLA 5.5.6)
Berlant, Lauren. “Race, Gender and the Nation in The Color Purple.” Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. Henry Louis
Gates and K. A. Appiah. New York: Amistad, 1993. 211-38. Print.
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Black Theater: A Twentieth-Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights. Ed. Lindsay
Patterson. New York: Dodd, 1971. 221-76. Print.
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The City in the Sea.” Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Comp. Dwight Macdonald. New York: Crowell, 1965. 51-52. Print.
Specialized Encyclopedias (MLA 5.5.7)
Grice, Maureen. “Macbeth: Stage History.” The Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. Ed. Oscar James Campbell. New York: Crowell,
1966. 48-51. Print.
“Romanticism.” Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia. Ed. Bruce Murphy. 4th ed. New York: Harper, 1996. Print.
Interview (MLA 5.7.7)
Gordimer, Nadine. Interview. New York Times 10 Oct. 1991, late ed.: C25. Print.
Speech (MLA 5.7.11)
Atwood, Margaret. “Silencing the Scream.” Imagination Forum. MLA Convention. York Hotel, Toronto. 29 Dec. 1993. Address.
(See MLA 7th Edition 5.1-5.8)
7th ed. MLA
9/18/2012
CITING PRINT SOURCES
Mountain Brook High School Library
Citing examples (based on MLA, 7th ed.) are the result of collaboration between the English Department and librarians of MBHS and are provided to facilitate student research in the Mountain Brook Schools.
Reprinted essay (MLA 5.5.6) in a work in an anthology (MLA 5.5.6)
Book in a series (MLA 5.5.15)
Gard, Roger. “Questioning the Merit of Pride and Prejudice.” Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art Of Clarity. New Haven: Yale UP, 1992.
Rpt. in Readings on Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2000. 111-17. Print.
Peduzzi-Nelson, Jean. “Adult Stem Cells Are More Promising than Embryonic Stem Cells.” Stem Cells. Ed. Jacqueline Langwith.
Detroit: Greenhaven, 2007. 189-94. Print. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. of “Adult Stem Cells Are Behind Much of Stem Cell Success
So Far.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2 Sept. 2006.
Environment Earth. “An Environmental Crisis Exists.” Conserving the Environment. Ed. John Woodward and Jennifer Skancke. Detroit: Greenhaven,
2006. 20-23. Print. Current Controversies. Excerpt from “Environment Basics.” www.environment-earth.com. Environment Earth, 2003.
Book in a series (MLA 5.5.15)
Horne, Richard Henry. "Mrs. Shelley.” Mary Shelley. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom's, 2008. 107-09. Print. Bloom's Classic Critical Views.
Excerpt from A New Spirit of the Age. N.p.: n.p., 1844. 317-21.
Multivolume work (MLA 5.5.14) – General Criticism
Akers, Tim, ed. “‘A Rose for Emily’: Critical Overview.” Short Stories for Students. Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 256. Print.
Multivolume work (MLA 5.5.14) – Authored Criticism
Hermanson, Casie. “The Great Gatsby: Criticism.” Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 77-79. Print.
Reprinted essay (MLA 5.5.6) in a multivolume work (MLA 5.5.14)
West, Ray B., Jr. “Atmosphere and Theme in Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily.’” William Faulkner: Four Decades of Criticism. Ed. Linda
Welshimer Wagner. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1973. 192-98. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Tim Akers. Vol. 6.
Detroit: Gale, 1999. 260-61. Print.
Walton, Eda Lou. “Nothing New Under the Sun.” New Masses 43.11 (1942): 23. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Ed. Robyn V. Young. Vol. 1.
Detroit: Gale, 1991. 239. Print.
Painting, Sculpture or Photograph (MLA 5.7.6)
Cassett, Mary. Mother and Child. 1906. Wichita Art Museum. American Painting: 1560-1913. By John Pearce. New York: McGraw, 1964.
274. Print.
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. Aristotle With a Bust of Homer. 1653. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Scholarly Journal (MLA 5.4.2)
Barthelme, Frederick. “Architecture.” Kansas Quarterly 13.3-4 (1981): 77-80. Print.
Magazine Article (MLA 5.4.6)
Weintraub, Arlene, and Laura Cohen. “A Plan for Nuclear Waste.” Business Week 6 May 2002: 94-96. Print.
Newspaper Article (MLA 5.4.5)
Chang, Kenneth. “The Melting (Freezing) of Antarctica.” New York Times 2 Apr. 2002, late ed.: F1+. Print.
Publisher’s Imprint (MLA 5.5.17)
Morrison, Toni. Sula. 1973. New York: Vintage-Random, 2004. Print.
Multiple Publishers (MLA 5.5.18)
Duff, J. Wight. A Literary History of Rome. Ed. A. M. Duff. 3rd ed. 1953. London: Benn; New York: Barnes, 1967. Print.
(See MLA 7th Edition 5.1-5.8)