Books
Books
Guide
See also the guide at MLA Style Center
Book by One Author
- Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall. Picador, 2010.
Book by Two or Many Authors
Use the same order as on the title page.
For two authors, only the first author's name is inverted.
- Last Name, First Name, and First Name Last Name. Title. Publisher, Year.
- Gullion, Jessica, and Abigail Tilton. Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research. Brill Publishers, 2020.
For three or more authors, use the first author’s last name followed by et al.
- Last Name, First name, et al. TItle. Publisher, Year.
- Johnson, Norine G., et al. Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls. American Psychological Association, 2009.
Book by an Unknown Author
- Beowulf. Translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, edited by Sarah Anderson, Pearson, 2004.
An Edited Book
- Sánchez Prado, Ignacio M., editor. Mexican Literature in Theory. Bloomsbury, 2018.
Book on a website
- Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Masque of the Red Death.” The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison, vol. 4, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902, pp. 250-58. HathiTrust Digital Library, hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924079574368.
See also rules for using illustrations
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