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When deciding how to cite your source, start by consulting the list of core elements. These are the general pieces of information that MLA suggests including in each Works Cited entry. In a citation, the elements should be listed in the following order:
Author.
Begin the entry with the author’s last name, followed by a comma and the rest of the name, as presented in the work. End this element with a period.
Title of source.
The title of the source should follow the author’s name. Depending upon the type of source, it should be listed in italics or "quotation marks."
A book should be in italics:
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. MacMurray, 1999.
A website should be in italics:
Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.*
A periodical (journal, magazine, newspaper) article should be in quotation marks:
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50.
A song or piece of music on an album should be in quotation marks:
Beyoncé. "Pray You Catch Me." Lemonade, Parkwood Entertainment, 2016, www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/.
Title of container,
MLA 8 refers to containers, which are the larger wholes in which the source is located. For example, if you want to cite a poem that is listed in a collection of poems, the individual poem is the source, while the larger collection is the container. The title of the container is usually italicized and followed by a comma, since the information that follows next describes the container.
Other contributors,
In addition to the author, there may be other contributors to the source who should be credited, such as editors, illustrators, translators, etc. If their contributions are relevant to your research, or necessary to identify the source, include their names in your documentation.
Version,
If a source is listed as an edition or version of a work, include it in your citation.
examples:
3rd ed.,
Authorized King James Version
Number,
If a source is part of a numbered sequence, such as a multi-volume book, or journal with both volume and issue numbers, those numbers must be listed in your citation.
Journal example:
vol. 15, no. 1,
Multivolume book:
When citing only one volume of a multivolume work, include the volume number after the work's title, or after the work's editor or translator.
Quintilian, James. Institutio Oratoria. Translated by H. E. Butler, vol. 2, Loeb-Harvard UP, 1980.
Publisher,
The publisher produces or distributes the source to the public.
Publication date,
When the source has more than one date, use the most recent date.
Location. (Only use the city of publication if the book was published before 1900)
Each element should be followed by the punctuation mark shown above. In MLA 8 punctuation is simpler (just commas and periods separate the elements), and information about the source is kept to the basics.
The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2016.