Note: This post relates to content in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. For up-to-date guidance, see the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook. Show To cite an excerpt from an anthology, follow the MLA format template. You will likely list a description in place of a title: If the anthology provides original publication information for the work that is excerpted, you may list it in the optional-element slot at the end of the template:
CONTENTS OF THIS BOX Books with One Author/Editor Books with More Than One Author Books with a Corporate Author Book with No Known Author Anthology or Collection Work within an Anthology or Collection Multivolume Work Book in a Series One Author or Editor Basic Format Author (last name, first name). Title(italicized). Publisher's Name, Date. What does a citation look like? Edwards, Justin D. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. U. of Iowa P, 2003. Multiple Authors or Editors Note that the first author is listed last name first, but that subsequent authors are listed by first name followed by last name. Basic Format When a work has more than one author, list them in the same order they are listed in the work. First Author (last name, first name), and Second Author (not inverted). Title (italicized).Publisher's Name, Date. What do citations with more than one author look like? 1. Two authors/editors Boyers, Robert, and Peggy Boyers, editors. The Salgamundi Reader. Indiana UP, 1983. 2. Three ot more authors/editors If there arethree or more authors/editors, enter only the name of the first author/editor followed by a comma, followed by et al. Snyder, Sharon L., et al., editors. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. Modern Language Association of America, 2002. Corporate Author A corporate author--as distinguished from a personal author--is a commission, an association, an institute, etc., which bears the primary responsibility for the content of the book, and whose individual members are not identified on the title page of the book. What does a citation look like? Middle Sates Commission of Higher Education. Developing Research and Communication Skills: Guidelines for Information Literacy in the Curriculum.Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 2003. Book with No Known Author If no author is listed for a book, begin the entry with the title of the book. Alphabetize it along with your other entries. Basic Format Title (italicized).Publisher's Name, Date. What does a citation look like? Encyclopedia, New York Law: Based on New York Statutes, Case Law, Sate and Federal Law; Law Reviews; Attorney General's Opinion and Comptroller's Opinions. E. Thompson, 1957. Anthology or Collection If the name of the editor, compiler or translator is on the title page, list the entry with the name of the editor(s), compiler(s) or translator(s). Basic Format Editor or Compiler (last name, first name). Title (italicized). Publisher's Name, Date. What do citations of anthologies look like? 1. Edited anthology Donalson, Melvin, editor. Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature. St. Martin's Press, 1996. 2.. Anthology with the same compiler and editor Marcus, Leonard A., compiler and editor. The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy. Candlewick Press, 2006 Work within an Anthology or Collection When citing a work--essay, short story, poem, etc.--from within an anthology, list the entry by the author of the piece referred to. The title of the piece should be in quotation marks. Add the citation to the larger work, beginning with its title, followed by the name(s) of the editor(s), translator(s) or compiler(s) (first name last name), as shown below.The page numbers of the work referred to are also included. Basic Format Author of work being cited (ast name, first name). "Title of work being cited" (in quotation marks). Title of the larger work (italicized), edited by (Name of the editor, compiler or translator--not inverted). Publisher's Name, Date Page Numbers of work being cited (abbreviated as pp.) What does a citation look like? Paley, Grace. "The Used-Boy Raisers." The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, compiled by R.V. Cassill. W.W. Norton, 1986, pp. 1216-1221. Multivolume Work 1. If you are using two or more volumes of a multivolume work, it is helpful to your reader to give the total number of volumes of the work at the end of your citation. Reference to a specific volume and page numbers is done in the in-text parenthetical references. Basic Format Name of Author or Editor (last name, first name). Title of the set (italicized). Publishers's Name, Date, Number of volumes (in the set). What does a citation look like? Alkin, Marvin C.,editor. Encyclopedia of Educational Research. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols. 2. If you you use one volume of a multivolume work, give the volume number in the citation only--not in the text--and provide the publication information only for that one volume. It may also be helpful to give the total number of volumes in the set at the end of the citation. Basic Format Name or Author or Editor (last name, first name). Titleof the set (italicized), volume number (of the work used). Publisher's Name, Date, Total number of volumes (of the set). What does a citation look like? Lucas, Robert E., Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent, editors. Rational Expectations and Econometric Practice, vol. 1. U of Minnesota P, 1981, 2 vols. Book in a Series If it is indicated on either the title page or the page preceding the title page that the book is part of a series, it may be helpful to your reader to add the name of the series (no italics or quotation marks), followed by the series number, after the publication information. Basic Format Author (last name, first name). Title of the work being cited (italicized). Publishers's Name, Date. Name of Series Number of Series. What does a citation look like? Harris, Alice C. Diachronic Syntax: The Kartevelian Case. Academic Press, 1985. Syntax and Semantics 18. How do you cite a Chapter in an anthology?Example of citations from a chapter in an anthology
Author Last Name, First Name. “Title of the Chapter.” Book Title, edited by Editor Name, publisher, year, page number(s) OR DOI/permalink/URL (without http://).
How do you MLA cite a work in an anthology?MLA Citation -- Work in an Anthology or Edited Book
Last name of author, First name of author. “Title of the Part of the Book Being Cited.” Title of Anthology. Edited by First and Last Names, edition* (if any), Publisher, Date, Page(s).
How do you cite a Chapter in MLA format?Standard format for citation
Author's Surname, Given Names. "Title of Chapter or Part." Title: Subtitle of Book, edited by Editor Name, edition (if not the first), Publisher, Year, pp. pages.
How do you cite a Chapter in a collection?Basic Format:
Author(s) of Chapter. "Title of Chapter: Subtitle of Chapter." Title of Book, edited by Editor of Book, Publisher, Publication Date, page numbers.
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