MLA 9th Edition Citation Guide
Books

Works Cited Page Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Works Cited Page Example:

Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. Villard, 1997.

In-text Citation Example:

...(Krakauer 116).

Works Cited Page Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Chapter." Title of Book. edited by Editor(s) First Name, Last name, Edition, Publisher, Year of Publication, page(s).

Works Cited Page Example:

Hairston, Maxine, and John J. Ruszkiewicz. "Can You Be Less Wordy?" The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers. edited by Anne E. Smith et al., 4th ed., HarperCollins, 1996, pp. 230-242.

In-text Citation Example:

...(Hairston and Ruszkiewicz 235).

Works Cited Page Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name, and Second Author's First and Last Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Works Cited Page Example:

Edles, Laura Desfor, and Scott Appelrouth. Sociological Theory in the Classical Era: Text and Readings. 2nd ed., Pine Forge Press, 2010.

In-text Citation Example:

...(Edles and Appelrouth 199-201).

Works Cited Page Format:

First Author's Last Name, First Author's First Name, et al. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Works Cited Page Example:

Klammer, Thomas P., et al. Analyzing English Grammar. 6th ed., Longman, 2010.

In-text Citation Example:

...(Klammer et al. 107).

Works Cited Page Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title of Book. E-book, Publisher, Publication Date.

Works Cited Page Example:

Platt, Len. James Joyce: Texts and Contexts. E-book, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.

In-text Citation Example:

...(Platt 104-05).

Works Cited Page Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection, edited by Editor's Name(s), Publisher, Year, Page range of entry.

Works Cited Page Example:

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, W. W. Norton, 2006, pp. 1124-36.

In-text Citation Example:

...(Pope 1131).

Works Cited Page Format:

The Bible. Version of the Bible, edition number, Publisher, Publication Date.

Works Cited Page Example:

The Bible. The New Oxford Annotated Version, 2nd ed., Oxford UP, 1977.

First in-text citation:

... (The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Ps. 63.3-4).

After the first in-text citation:

... (Eccles. 3.1-8).

Before 1900, the place of publication was emphasized rather than a publisher (if there was a publisher). Because of this, in MLA format, books published before 1900 cite the place of publication and books published after 1900 cite the publisher. 

Works Cited Page Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication, Publication Date.

Works Cited Page Example:

Scott, Walter. The Poetical Works. Vol. 5, Edinburgh, 1822.

In-text Citation Example:

...(Scott 121).