Some guidelines for citations of print sources in a works cited list

What follows comes compliments of the MLA style handbook.  I have provided here the formats for basic print sources.  If one of your sources doesn't fit these categories, do the best you can to arrange the information clearly, and then see me in class. 

A book with one author

Frye, Northrup. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton

 UP, 1957.

A book with more than one author

Gesell, Arnold, and Frances L. Ing. Child Development: An

Introduction to the Study of Human Growth. New

  York: Macmillan,1960.

N.B. If there are three or more authors, you may list only the first author and add et al. (which means "and others") in place of the other authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page.

A book with no author named

Encyclopedia of Photography. New York: Crown, 1984.

An anthology or collection

Rueschemeyer, Marilyn, ed. Women in the Politics of Postcommunist

 Eastern Europe. Armonk: Sharpe, 1994.

An essay in a collection (that is, one article in a book that has a collection of articles by different authors; articles in Seeing and Writing fall under this category)

Krutch, Joseph Wood. "What the Year 2000 Won't Be Like.Finding a

Voice. Ed. Jim W. Corder.  Glenview: Scott Foresman, 1973.

 21-36.

An article from a reference book

"Mandarin." Encyclopedia Americana. 1980 ed.

An essay in a journal with continuous pagination  (That is, the first issue of a given  year starts at page 1; subsequent issues start where issue one left off:  e.g. Issue 1 has pages 1-176; Issue 2 would start at page 177, and so forth.)

Flanigan, Beverly Olson. "Peer Tutoring  in the Elementary School." 

  Applied Linguistics 12 (1991): 141-58. ("12" is the volume number.)

An essay in a journal that pages each issue separately (that is, each issue of a particular year starts with page 1.)

Barthelme, Frederick. "Architecture." Kansas Quarterly  13. 3 (1981):

 77-80. (Notice that you include the  issue # -- in  this case "3" -- with journals that number each issue separately.   No issue number is needed for journals with continuous pagination).

A magazine or newspaper article (Sometimes students have a hard time deciding whether a source is a magazine or journal.  Generally, if the source doesn't have the word "journal" in it, AND it is published weekly or monthly, treat it as a magazine.)

Monthly magazine

Nimmons, David. "Sex and the Brain." Discover  Mar. 1994:  26-27.

Weekly Magazine            

Matthew, Sharon. "The New Candidates." Time  27 Jan. 1991: 14-18. (Note carefully the format for a date:  day month year. Use this same format for a newspaper article.)

A government publication

United States Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics. Dictionary of

 Occupational Titles. 4th ed. Washington: GPO, 1977.

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