Additional examples and explanations for book citations are found in the MLA Handbook (2016). You can also visit the websites listed on the MLA home page.
Inside your paper, give credit to the works you quote.
See examples of how to tell your readers where facts, paraphrases, or quotes in your paper come from at this site from the Purdue OWL: MLA 2016 In-text Citations.
Basic Works Cited Entry
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Author's last name, Author's first name. Title of the Book. Publisher, Year. |
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Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. Viking, 2008. |
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Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler. The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection. Little, 2009. Print. |
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Steinberg, Shirley R., and Joe L. Kincheloe, eds. Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture. Westview, 2009. |
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Sherry, Vincent. The Great War and the Language of Modernism. Cambridge UP, 2003. OhioLINK Electronic Book Center. http://www.ohiolink.edu/bookid_1394530458349 Two additional items may be necessary for citing an electronic book: Name of the database or website (here, OhioLINK EBC) and the URL for retrieval.
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