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Shaler Area School Libraries 21 Apr. 2010 MLA Citation Information‐BOOKS Where do I find the citation information in a book? Use the title page and copyright page (back of the title page) to locate the following information: 1. Author, Editor, Compiler or Translator 2. Title (Italicized) 3. Edition used 4. Volume Number(s) 5. Publication Information: City, Publisher & Year (Copyright Date) 6. Medium of Publication (Print) 7. Additional bibliographic information (required for some formats) *If a book is missing Publication Information (#5 above) special abbreviations are required in place of the missing information. N.p. = no place (city) n.p. = no publisher n.d. = no date (copyright) Example: Pepys, Samuel. Passages from the diary of Samuel Pepys. New York: The Modern library, n.d. Print. Sample Book Citations *The Shaler High School Library Catalog (Destiny) has a Citation List feature that puts selected materials into a basic MLA format. Some types of books require additional information, but the Citation List feature is a great starting point for an MLA works cited page. Books with one author or editor (Editor should appear prominently on the title page) George, Madeleine. Looks. New York: Speak, 2009. Print. McClatchy, J D., ed. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Print. 1 Shaler Area School Libraries 21 Apr. 2010 Books with two or three authors or editors (Names in order as they appear on the title page) (Reverse only the name of the first author/editor.) McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil. The Story of English. New York: Viking, 1986. Print. McShane, Marilyn D. and Franklin P. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2003. Print. Books with more than three authors or editors (Names in order as they appear on the title page) (If listing all, reverse only the name of the first author/editor.) Chivian, Eric, et al., eds. Last Aid: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War. San Francisco: Freeman, 1982. Print. -OR- Chivian, Eric, Susanna Chivian, Robert Lifton, and John E. Mack, eds. Last Aid: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War. San Francisco: Freeman, 1982. Print. Books with no author or editor Photography in America's National Parks. Secaucus: Chartwell, 1981. Print. Books with an author & a prominent editor (both listed on the title page) Smith, Joe. Off the Record: an Oral History of Popular Music. Ed. Mitchell Fink. New York: Warner, 1988. Print. Books with a compiler or translator Best Russian Short Stories. Comp. Thomas Seltzer. Mattituck: Amereon, 1925. Print. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. New York: Harper, 1991. Print. 2 Shaler Area School Libraries 21 Apr. 2010 Books with a corporate author PA, Commonwealth of. The Pennsylvania Manual. Vol. 119. N.p.: n.pag., 2009. Print. Books with an edition statement on the title page Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance. 13th ed. New York: Ferguson, 2005. Print. Introduction, Preface, Foreword or Afterword (Page numbers indicate the location of the section being cited.) Aaron, Hank. Foreword. And the Crowd Goes Wild: Relive the Most Celebrated Sporting Events Ever Broadcast. By Joe Garner. Naperville: Sourcebooks, 1999. ix-xi. Print. Gretzky, Wayne. Afterword. And the Crowd Goes Wild: Relive the Most Celebrated Sporting Events Ever Broadcast. By Joe Garner. Naperville: Sourcebooks, 1999. 174-75. Print. Lewis, R.W.B. Introduction. The Age of Innocence. By Edith Wharton. New York: Macmillan, 1993. vii-xvi. Print. Schlissel, Lillian. Preface. Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey. Comp. Lillian Schlissel. Ed. Gerda Lerner. New York: Schocken, 1982. 3-6. Print. Books in a series (The series title is considered “additional bibliographic information,” so it appears at the end of the citation.) Hamilton, Jill. Electronic Devices in Schools. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2008. Print. Issues That Concern You. Hassig, Susan M. and Zawiah A. Latif. Somalia. New York: Cavendish, 2007. Print. Cultures of the World. Woodford, Chris. Titanium. New York: Cavendish, 2003. Print. The Elements. 3 Shaler Area School Libraries 21 Apr. 2010 Work in a collection (Article in a Reference Book, Criticism, Essay, Chapter, Short Story or Poem in a Collection) Aneja, Anu. “Jorge Luis Borges.” Magill’s Survey of World Literature. Rev. ed. Vol. 1. Ed. Steven G. Kellman. Pasadena: Salem, 2009. 320-29. Print. Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Secret Miracle.” Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. New York: Penguin, 1998. 157-62. Print. Rushdie, Salman. “The Free Radio.” The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories. Ed. Daniel Halpern. New York: Penguin, 2000. 513-18. Print. Vaknin, Sam. “The Sale of Body Parts Should Be Regulated.” Is Selling Body Parts Ethical? Ed. Christina Fisanick. Detroit: Gale, 2010. 10-15. Print. At Issue. Previously published material (Include full citation information for both publications and connect them with “Rpt. in…” Reprinted in.) Gregor, Ian. The Great Web: the Form of Hardy’s Major Fiction. N.p.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1974. 236. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 32. Eds. Paula Kepos and Dennis Poupard. Detroit: Gale, 1989. 312-19. Print. Huesmann, Rowell L. and Laramie D. Taylor. “Exposure to Violence in the Media Leads to Violent Behavior.” Annual Review of Public Health 27 (2006): 393-415. Rpt. in Media Violence. Eds. David M. Haugen and Susan Musser. Detroit: Gale, 2009. 23-36. Print. Opposing Viewpoints. Meisenhelder, Susan E. “Conflict and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men.” Journal of American Folklore. 109.433 (1996): 267-88. Rpt. in Zora Neale Hurston. New ed. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase, 2008. 105-30. Print. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views. 4 .