MLA Style

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MLA Style

• Books

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5.3. List of Works Cited Other Source Lists

• Types of lists Works Cited, Annotated
  Bibliography, Work Consulted, Selected
  Bibliography.

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• Example of Annotated Bibliography Thomson,
  Stith. The Folktale. New York Dryden, 1946. A
  comprehensive survey of the most popular
  folktales, including their histories and their
  uses in literary works.

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5.6 Books

• Books by a Single Author
  Gerber, John C. Mark Twain. Boston Twayne,
  1988.
• Two or more Books by One Author
  Frye, Northrop.
  Anatomy of Criticism Four Essays. Princeton
  Princeton U P, 1957.
  ---. The Double Vision
  Language and Meaning in Religion. Toronto U
  of Toronto P, 1991.

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• Books by Two Authors
  Long, E. Hudson and J.R. LeMaster. The Mark
  Twain Handbook. New York Garland, 1985.

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5.6.2. Anthology or Compilation

• Editor of an anthology
  Feldman, Paula R., ed. British Women Poets of
  the Romantic Era. Baltimore Johns Hopkins UP,
  1997.
• Compiler
  Sevillano, Mando, comp. The
  Hopi Way Tales from a Vanishing Culture.
  Flagstaff Northland, 1986.
• Compiler and editor
  Spafford, Peter, comp. and ed.
  Interference The Story of Czechoslovakia in
  the Words of Its Writers. Cheltenham New
  Clarion, 1992.

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5.6.7. A Work in an Anthology

• Essays in an Anthology
  
  
  Allende, Isabel. Toads Mouth. Trans. Margaret
  Sayers Peden. A Hammock beneath the Mangoes
  Stories from Latin America. Ed. Thomas Colchie.
  New York Plume, 1992. 83-88.
  A Witchcraft
  Story. The Hopi Way Tales from a Vanishing
  Culture. Comp. Mando Sevillano. Flagstaff
  Northland, 1986. 33-42.

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Works published before

• Franklin, Benjamin. Emigration to America.
  1782. The Faber Book of America. Ed. Christopher
  Ricks and William L. Vance. Boston Faber,
  1992. 24-26.

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The Bible

• The Bible is not included in the List of Works
  Cited.

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Previously Published Scholarly Article in a
Collection

• Frye, Northrop. Literary and Linguistic
  Scholarship in a Postliterate Age. PMLA 99
  (1984) 990-95. Rpt. in Myth and Metaphor
  Selected Essays, 1974-88. Ed. Robert D. Denham.
  Charlottesville UP of Virginia, 1990. 18-27.

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• Roberts, Sheila. A Confined World A Rereading
  of Pauline Smith. World Literature Written in
  English 24 (1984) 232-38. Rpt. in
  Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis
  Poupard. Vol. 25. Detroit Gale, 1988. 399-402.

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5.6.9 An Introduction, Preface, Foreword or
Afterword

• Borges, Jorge Luis. Foreword. Selected Poems,
  1923-1967. By Borges. Ed. Norman Thomas Di
  Giovanni. New York Delta-Dell, 1973. xv-xvi.
• Drabble, Margaret. Introduction. Middlemarch. By
  George Eliot. 1871-1872. New York Bantam,
  1985. vii- xvii.

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5.6.18 Publishers Imprint

• Lopate, Phillip, ed. The Art of the Personal
  Essay An Anthology from the Classical Era to the
  Present. New York Anchor-Doubleday, 1994.
• Morrison, Toni. Sula. 1973. New York
  Plume-Penguin, 2002.

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5.6.19 Book with Multiple Publishers

• Duff, J. Wright. A Literary History of Rome From
  the Origins to the Close of the Golden Age. Ed.
  A.M. Duff. 3rd ed. 1953. London Benn New York
  Barnes, 1967.
• Wells, H.G. The Time Machine. 1895. London Dent
  Rutland Tuttle, 1992.