These examples are provided for quick reference; however, it is always advisable to consult the official source: the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 2nd edition, located in the Reference collection, call number Ref PN147.G444 1988.

The List of Works Cited should be typed with a hanging indention; that is, the first line of each citation should be flush with the left margin and any additional lines should be indented. The preferred indention is 5 spaces or one-half inch.

Book with one author

Meisenhelder, Susan Edwards. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale

Hurston. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1999.

Book with two or more authors

Holloway, Karla F. C., and Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos. New Dimensions of Spirituality: A Biracial and Bicultural

Reading of the Novels of Toni Morrison. New York: Greenwood, 1987.

Anthology or collection with an editor (ed.), compiler (comp.), or translator (trans.)

Eckehard, Simon, ed. The Theatre of Medieval Europe: New Research in Early Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.

A work from an anthology or collection

White, Daniel. “Antidote to Desecration: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Nonfiction.” Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical

Essays. Ed. Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1999.

Signed article in a reference book

Sweeney, James Ross. “Chivalry.” Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph R. Strayer. 13 vols. New York: Scribner’s,

1987.

Unsigned entry in a reference book

“Mythology.” World Book Encyclopedia. 1995.

“Ellipsis.” Webster’s New World College Dictionary. 4th ed. 1999.

Article in a scholarly journal with continuous pagination

Riquelme, John Paul. “Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.”

Modern Fiction Studies 46 (2000): 609-631.

Article in a scholarly journal with new pagination in each issue

Berardinelli, Alfonso. “From Postmodernism to Mutation: How the Twentieth Century Draws to a Close.” Diogenes 47.2

(1999): 93- 105.

Article in a magazine

Wallraff, Barbara. “What Global Language?” The Atlantic Monthly Nov. 2000: 52-66.

Article in a newspaper

Yardley, Jonathan. “ Culture Trash.” Washington Post 6 April 1998, final ed.: D2.

A web site

Mitchell-Boyask, Robin. Classical Mythology. 31 Jan. 2001 <http://www.temple.edu/classics/mythdirectory.html>.

Article from a scholarly journal online

Trevor, Douglas. "John Donne and Scholarly Melancholy." SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 40.1 (2000)

81-102. 31 Jan. 2001 <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_english_literature/v040/40.1trevor.html >.

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