MLA:
Citing
a
Source
that
was
Reprinted
(A
Republished
Source)
Sometimes,
articles
and
other
printed
sources
can
be
reprinted
or
republished
in
a
different
publication.
If
your
source
has
been
reprinted,
it
will
include
the
original
publication
information.
You
will
need
that
information
to
create
a
citation
for
your
Works
Cited
page.
To
cite
a
source
that
was
reprinted,
or
“republished”:
• List
the
printing
information
of
the
original
source.
o Author:
Last
name,
First
name.
o Title
of
source:
“In
quotation
marks.”
o Title
of
original
publication:
In
Italics.
o Issue
and
Number,
followed
by
year
of
publication:
2.2
(1990):
o Page
numbers:
#‐##.
• Next,
insert
the
printing
information
of
the
reprinting.
o After
the
abbreviation,
“Rpt.
in”
(which
stands
for
“reprinted
in”),
list
the
title
of
the
new
publication:
Rpt.
In
Title
in
Italics.
o Editor
(following
the
abbreviation,
“Ed.”):
Ed.
First
name
Last
name.
o Place
of
publication
and
year:
City:
Institution
or
Company,
Year.
o Page
numbers:
#‐##.
o The
word,
“Print”:
Print.
Example:
Appadurai,
Arjun.
“Disjuncture
and
Difference
in
the
Global
Cultural
Economy.”
Public
Culture
2.2
(1990):
1‐24.
Rpt.
in
Colonial
Discourse
and
Post­cultural
Theory:
A
Reader.
Ed.
Patrick
Williams
and
Laura
Chrisman.
New
York:
Columbia
UP,
1994.
324‐39.
Print.
*For
more
information
and
examples,
see
section
5.5.6
in
MLA
Handbook
for
Writers
of
Research
Papers,
7th
ed.,
pp.
158‐159.
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