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MLA Works Cited Page and
Parenthetical Documentation Directory

1.	Book - One Author	15.	Article - Monthly Magazine
2.	Multiple Books - Same Author	16.	Article - Monthly Magazine No Author
3.	Book - Two Authors/Editors	17.	Article - Reprinted in a Collection
4.	Book - Three or More Authors/Editors	18.	Article - Newspaper
5.	Book - Editor and Original Author(s)	19.	Article - Newspaper No Author
6.	Book - Authored by a Group	20.	Editorial - Newspaper No Author
7.	Book - No Author	21.	Reference Book or Encyclopedia
8.	Book - Republished	22.	Bulletin or Pamphlet
9.	Anthology or Compilation	23.	Government Document
10.	Work in an Anthology	24.	Computer - Periodically Published
			Database on CD-ROM
11.	Chapter Within a Book	25.	Computer - Nonperiodical Publication
			on CD-ROM
12.	Article - Journal or Magazine Pages	26.	Computer - Online Service
	Numbered by Year or Volume
13.	Article - Journal or Magazine	27.	Computer - Online Network
14.	Article - Weekly/Biweekly Magazine	28.	Computer - Online Electronic Text

Sample Works Cited Entries & Parenthetical Documentation

1.	Book - One Author
	Works Cited Entry:	Clancy, Tom. A Clear and Present Danger. New York: Putnam, 1989.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Clancy 68).
	Double space the entry and indent every line after the first line five spaces or 1/2 inch if you are using proportional font. Text for titles, magazines, journals or newspapers may be underlined or italicized depending on your wordprocessing capabilities.

2.	Multiple Books - Same Author
	Works Cited Entries:	Grisham, John. The Client. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
		---. A Time to Kill. New York: Wynwood Press, 1989.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Grisham, A Time to Kill 68).
		(Grisham, The Client 175).
	For more than one work by the same author(s), put a comma after the author's last name(s) and the title of the work, if short, or a shortened version, and the page number.

Book with Two Authors or Editors

Works Cited Entry:

Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle. Footfall. New York:

Ballentine, 1985.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Niven and Pournelle 76-77).

4.	Book with Three Authors or Editors
	Works Cited Entry:	Nadell, Judith., Linda McMeniman and John Langan.The Macmillan Writer. New York: Macmillan, 1991.
	Only the name of the first author -- Nadell, Judith. -- is reversed for alphabetizing. Names of additional authors and editors follow the normal order--Linda McMeniman.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Nadell, McMeniman and Langan 26).
	Book with More Than Three Authors or Editors
	Works Cited Entry:	Abrams, M. H., et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 3rd ed. ©2 vols. New York: Norton, 1974.
	Name only the first author and add "et al." ("and others"), which is not italicized or underlined as Latin abbreviation here. Commas are needed around "et al." only when it is followed by a specification such as eds. (editors) or trans. (translators).
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Abrams et al. 1: 29).
	Since this is a work in two volumes, the documentation must indicate which volume; therefore, the volume number is followed by a colon and the page number or numbers.

Book with an Editor (focus on original author)

Works Cited Entry:

Dryden, John. Of Dramatic Poesy and Other

Critical Essays. Ed. George Watson. 2 vols.

London: Dent, 1962.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Dryden 1:92).

6.	Book Authored by a Group
	Works Cited Entry:	Reader's Digest. Fix-It-Yourself Manual. Pleasantville, New York: Reader's Digest, 1977.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Reader's Digest 54).
	It may make for a clearer note to cite the name of the author or work in the sentence and put only the page numbers between parentheses. For example: The Reader's Digest Fix-It-Yourself Manual explains the basic tools you need for furniture repair (54-55).

7.	Book with No Author
	Works Cited Entry:	Illustrated World Atlas. Chicago: Rand, 1985.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Illustrated Atlas 88-89).

Book Republished

Works Cited Entry:

Herbert, Frank. Dune. 1965. New York: Berkeley,

1977.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Herbert 123)

An anthology or a compilation

Works Cited Entry:

Carter-Douglas, Grace, ed. The Griot: An Anthology

of African Necromancers. Sacramento: Rumble,

1988.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Carter-Douglas 129)

10.

A Work in an Anthology

Works Cited Entry:

Jackson, Shirley. "The Lottery." 1949 Literature: An

Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 6th ed.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. 298-300.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Jackson 298).

11.

A Chapter Within a Book

Works Cited Entry:

Clark, Kenneth. "Heroic Materialism." Civilization

New York: Harper, 1969. 321-47.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Clark 321).

12.

An Article in a Journal Paginated by Year or Volume--Not Issue by Issue

Works Cited Entry:

Loescher, Lois J., et al. "Educating Preschoolers about

Sun Safety." American Journal of Public Health

85 (1983): (July 1995): 939-942.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Loescher et al. 939).

13.

Article in a Journal or Magazine Paginated by Issue

Works Cited Entry:

Tipton, Carole . "Better Discipline for Big Schools."

Education Digest Dec. 1995: 23-25.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Tipton 24).

14.

An Article in a Weekly or Biweekly Magazine

Works Cited Entry:

Miller, Annetta. "We'll Adjust Our Schedules."

Newsweek 28 Nov. 1994: 46.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Miller 46).

15.	An Article in a Monthly Magazine -- Author Given
	Works Cited Entry:	Graham, Don. "When Myths Collide." Texas Monthly Jan. 1986: 42+.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Graham 98).
	The plus sign following the page number (42+)indicates that the article continues beyond p. 42, but not necessarily on consecutive pages. You will also see the plus sign appear in citations to newspaper articles, which also often continue across several pages.

16.

An Article in a Monthly Magazine -- Author Not Given

Works Cited Entry:

"Engineered Plants Resist Herbicide." High Technology

Jan. 1986: 9.

Parenthetical documentation:

("Engineered Plants" 9).

17.	An Article Reprinted in a Collection
	Works Cited Entry:	Liebert, Herman W. "Reflections on Samuel Johnson." Journal of English and German Philology 47 (1948) 84-88. Rpt. in Samuel Johnson: Critical Essays. Ed. Donald J. Greene. TwentiethCentury Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1965. 15-21.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Liebert 17).
	If the book in which the article is reprinted is part of a series (Twentieth Century Views), the name of the series is not underlined.

18.	An Article in a Newspaper
	Works Cited Entry:	Muto, Sheila. "Student Uniforms Pay Off, One School District Says." The New York Times 20 Jan. 1995, sec. B: 1+.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Muto B4)
	The plus sign following the page number (1+) indicates that the article continues beyond the first page, but not necessarily on consecutive pages.

19.

An Article in a Newspaper -- No Author Given

Works Cited Entry:

"Nervous Robber Accidentally Shoots Himself in the

Mouth." Houston Chronicle 15 Jan. 1986,

state final ed., sec. 1: 17.

Parenthetical documentation:

("Nervous Robber" 17).

20.

An Editorial in a Newspaper - No Author Given

Works Cited Entry:

"How to Honor Dr. King -- and When." Editorial.

New York Times 15 Jan. 1986, nat. ed.: 23.

Parenthetical documentation:

("How to Honor" 23).

21.	An Entry in a Familiar Reference Work or Encyclopedia
	Works Cited Entry:	Benedict, Roger William. "Northwest Passage." Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropaedia. 1974 ed.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Benedict)
	No page number is given when a work is arranged alphabetically.

22.	A Bulletin or Pamphlet
	Works Cited Entry:	Finding Film Reviews. UGL Study Guide. Austin: The General Libraries, 1984.
	Treat pamphlets like books: underline titles and provide publishing information.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(Finding Film 4)

23.	A Government Document
	Works Cited Entry:	United States Cong. Joint Committee on Printing. 985-86 Official Congressional Directory. 99th Cong.Washington: GPO, 1985.
	Parenthetical documentation:	(United States. Cong. Joint Committee on Printing 182- 84).
	Give the name of the government (national, state, local) and agency issuing the report, the title of the publication, and the publishing information. If it is a congressional document (as seen in the above example), identify the Congress and the session (99th Cong., 2nd session) after the title of the document.

24.

Computer - Periodically Published Database on CD-ROM

Works Cited Entry:

"League of Nations: It's Purpose, It's Acheivements, It's

Scope." TIME Magazine14 Apr. 1923 Time

Magazine Multimedia Almanac. CD-ROM.

SoftKey Multimedia, Inc. 1995.

Parenthetical documentation:

("League Of Nations.")

25.

Computer - Nonperiodical Publication on CD-ROM

Works Cited Entry:

Barnett, Arnold. "How Numbers Can Trick You."

Technology Review Oct. 1994: 38-45. Physical

Science. Ed. Eleanor Goldstein. 1994. Art. 29.

SIRS CD-ROM. CD-ROM. Boca Raton:

SIRS, 1995.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Barnett 38-45).

26.

Computer - Online Service

Works Cited Entry:

Mitchell, Alison. "U.S. Ready to Keep a Force in

18 Months Longer."New York Times.16 Nov.

1996. @Times. Online. America Online. 18 Nov.

1996.

Parenthetical documentation:
Return to Directory

(Mitchell).

27.

Computer - Online Network

Works Cited Entry:

Alston, Robin. "The Battle of the Books." Humanist

7.0176 (10 Sept. 1993): 10 pp. Online. Internet.

10 Oct. 1993.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Alston 3).

28.

Computer - Online Electronic Text

Works Cited Entry:

Shakespeare, William. Othello. The Complete

Moby (tm) Shakespeare. Online. Mass.

Institute of Technology. Internet. 16 Nov.

1996. Available URL: http:// the-tech.mit.

edu/Shakespeare/ Tragedy/othello/othello.

html.

Parenthetical documentation:

(Shakespeare 1.1.15-17).

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