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MLA Style Guide: Book with Personal Author(s)

 

Book with Personal Author(s)

Material Type In-text Citation Works Cited
Book with one author (Brinkley 525) Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. 7th ed., McGraw Hill, 2014, p. 525.
Book with two authors (Wilson and Schlosser 67) Wilson, Charles, and Eric Schlosser. Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.​
Book with three or more authors (James et al. 157-165)
James, Charles, et al. The Sociological History of People and Places. Magnolia Press, 2005.
Book with no author
(Beowulf 16-31)
Beowulf. Translated by Burton Raffel, Signet, 2008.
 
Electronic Book (Internet, available to everyone) (Wilde 83) Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1890. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/files/174/174-h/174-h.htm.
Electronic Book (Login required) (Hardy 58-60) Hardy, Thomas. Far From The Madding Crowd. The Floating Press, 2009. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).
Part of a book from an online database (chapter, essay, piece) (Rosenfelt 427)   
Porter, Carolyn. "Ann Beattie: The Art of the Missing." The Contemporary American Women Writers: Native Strategies, edited by William J. Scheick and Catherine Rainwater, UP of Kentucky, 2015, pp. 9-28. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).
Electronic book (Read on an eReader device i.e. Nook, Kindle, etc.) (Austen 101) Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Amazon Digital Services, 2012.