MLA Citation Examples

1. MLA Citation Examples
BOOKS
Single author
Perle, George. Serial Composition and Atonality: an Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg,
and Webern. 6th ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Print.
Multiple authors
Higonnet, Margaret R., and Joan Templeton, eds. Reconfigured Spheres: Feminist Explorations of
Literary Space. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. Print.
Edited Book
Gibbons, Reginald, ed. The Poet's Work: 29 Masters of 20th Century Poetry on the Origins and
Practice of their Art. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. Print.
Group or corporate author
World Bank. Transition, The First Ten Years: Analysis and Lessons for Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union. Washington: World Bank, 2002. Print.
Chapter or essay in book
Calvino, Italo. "Cybernetics and Ghosts." The Uses of Literature: Essays. Trans. Patrick Creagh. San
Diego: Harcourt, 1982. 3-27. Print.
Article from a reference book
Loizou, Andros. "Theories of Justice: Rawls." Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Ed. Ruth Chadwick.
Vol. 4. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998. Print.
Articles
Article in a journal (one author)
Wolff, Larry. "'The Boys are Pickpockets, and the Girl is a Prostitute': Gender and Juvenile
Criminality in Early Victorian England from Oliver Twist to London Labour." New Literary
History 27.2 (1996): 227-249. Print.
Article in a journal (multiple authors)
Millán-Zaibert, Elisabeth and Leo Zaibert. "El Análisis Filosófico." Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos
627 (2002): 29-35. Print.

2. Article in a popular magazine
Lerner, Barbara. "America's Schools: Still Failing After All These Years." National Review 15 Sep.
1997: 42+. Print.
Note: use the + sign if the pages are not consecutive; 42-44 would be the correct way if this article ran
on consecutive pages; do not give the volume and issue number, even if they are available.
Article in a newspaper
Kennedy, Louise. "Same Old Song." Boston Globe 9 March 2003, late ed.: N1+. Print.
Article from a full-text database
Andreatta, Filippo. "Italy at a Crossroads: The Foreign Policy of a Medium Power after the End of
Bipolarity." Daedalus 130.2: 45-65. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 9 March 2009.
Article from an e-journal collection
Brooks, Gwendolyn. "Henry Dumas: Perceptiveness and Zeal." Black American Literature Forum
22.2 (1988): 177. JSTOR. Web. 9 March 2009.
Article from a free web e-journal
Castle, Robert. "From Desperation to Salvation: Concealing and Revealing Nothing in History."
Archipelago 6.3 (2003): n. pag. Web. 9 March 2009.
Web
Web page
Pilgrim, David. "The Brute Caricature." Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. Ferris State
University. Nov. 2000. Web. 20 May 2009.
Note: If your instructor requires it, include the URL immediately following the date of access, a
period, and a space. Enclose the URL in angle brackets (<>), and follow it with a period. For
more details on citing works on the Web, see section 5.6 of the MLA Handbook.