This document provides examples of citations for various types of sources in MLA format, including books by single authors and multiple authors, edited books, articles from journals, magazines, newspapers, databases and e-journals, as well as web pages. Citations are provided for chapters from books, articles from reference books, and works from both print and electronic sources.

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.