MLA
CITATION GUIDE FOR
LITERATURE
Number: 1B
Examples are based on the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th ed. New York: MLA, 2009. Print.
Double space and alphabetize all citations.
Parts of the citation for a scholarly journal
issue year
author
article title
volume number
journal name
Benoit, Raymond. “Poe‟s The Fall of the House of Usher.” Explicator 58.2 (2000):
79-81. Academic Search Premier. Web. 31 Aug. 2011.
page numbers
database name
format
date you accessed article
Works Cited
Benoit, Raymond. "Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher." Explicator 58.2 (2000):79-81.
Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Oct. 2006.
Dizard, Robin. “Toni Morrison, the Slave Narratives, and Modernism.” Massachusetts
Use For
Periodical article
from a database
(EBSCO, etc.)
Periodical article
(print)
Review 51.2 (2010): 389-405. Print.
Dyer, Joyce. “Kate Chopin‟s Sleeping Beauties.” Criticicism on Kate Chopin. Ed. Harold
Essay in
print anthology
Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1987. 71-81. Print.
Foster, Edward E. “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.” Masterplots. 2010.
MagillOnLiterature Plus. Web. 8 Nov. 2011.
Essay from EReference
Book in Database
(e.g.MagillsOnLit
Plus)
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. “Myth and History: Discourse of Origins in Zora Neale Hurston
and Maya Angelou.” Black American Literature Forum 24.2 (1990): 221-35.
JSTOR
JSTOR. Web. 17 Feb. 2009.
Lahr, John and Jonathan Price. Life-Show: How to See Theater in Life and Life in Theater.
New York: Viking, 1973. Print.
Book/more than
one author
Levitas, Michael. “A Slight Case of Candor.” New York Times 19 August 1968: 35. Rpt. in
Short Story Criticism. Ed. Thomas Votteler. Vol. 8. Detroit: Gale,1991. 423-440.
Gale Lit Crit. Online
Database: standard
format
Literature Criticism Online. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.
Levitas, Michael. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Short Story Criticism. Ed. Thomas Votteler. Vol. 8.
Detroit: Gale,1991. 423-440. Literature Criticism Online. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.
Mathews, Carolyn L. "Fashioning the Hybrid Woman in Kate Chopin's „The
Awakening.‟" Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature
Gale Lit Crit. Online
Database: Simplified
by DCCC Librarians
Scholarly journal from
Literature Online
(LION) database
35.3 (2002): 127-49. Literature Online. Web. 3 Dec. 2005.
Moddelmog, Debra. Reading Desire: in Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway. Ithaca: Cornell UP,
Book/one author
1999. Print.
Rampersad, Arnold. “Langston Hughes.” Callaloo Journal 9 (1986): 144-58. Rpt. in Black
Literature Criticism. Ed. James P. Draper. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1993. 1046-49.
Print Gale Series:
standard format
*Rpt. Is the abbreviation
for Reprinted
Print.
Rampersad, Arnold. “Langston Hughes.” Black Literature Criticism. Ed. James P. Draper.
Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1992. 1046-49. Print.
Sova, Dawn B. "Poe, Edgar Allan." Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary
Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, 2007. Bloom's Literary
Print Gale Series:
Simplified by
DCCC Librarians
Essay from e-book
anthology
in database (e.g. Bloom’s)
Reference Online. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.
Additional MLA examples can be found at:
MLA Style guide from the Owl at Purdue:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
DCCC Library MLA Extended Examples Guide
http://www.dccc.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/library/PDF_Library_MLA-HowToCiteSources.pdf
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