MLA DOCUMENTATION AT A GLANCE

All citations should appear on a Works Cited page alphabetically, by the author's last name. 

 

A Book By a Single Author:

Kaku, Michio.  Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel
     Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension.  New York: Oxford
     UP, 1994.

An Anthology or Compilation:

Rueschemeyer, Marilyn, ed.  Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern
   Europe.  Armonk: Sharpe, 1994.

 A Book by Two or More Authors:

Rabkin, Eric S., Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds.  No Place
    Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction.  Carbondale:
    Southern Illinois UP, 1983.

 A Work in an Anthology:

Hansberry, Lorraine.  A Raisin in the Sun.  Black Theater: A Twentieth-Century
    Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights.  Ed. Lindsay Patterson.
    New York: Dodd, 1971. 221-76.

 An Introduction, Preface, Foreward, or Afterward

Hamill, Pete.  Introduction.  The Brooklyn Reader: Thirty Writers Celebrate
          America’s Favorite Borough.  Eds. Andrea Wyatt Sexton and Alice
          Leccese Powers. New York: Harmony, 1994. xi-xiv.

 An Article in a Newspaper

Feder, Barnaby J. “For Job Seekers, a Toll-Free Gift of Expert Advice.” New
          York Times 30 Dec. 1993, natl. ed.: C1+.

 An Article in a Magazine:

Bazell, Robert.  “Science and Society: Growth Industry.”  New Republic 15 Mar.
    1993: 13-14.

Frank, Micahel.  “The Wild, Wild West.”  Architectural Digest June 1990: 180+.

An Anonymous Article
“The Decade of the Spy.”  Newsweek 7 Mar. 1994: 26-27.
An Editorial

Zuckerman, Mortimer B.  “Welcome to Cornucopia.”  Editorial.  US News and
    World Report 1 Nov. 1993: 116.

 An Article in a Scholarly Journal:

 Baum, Rosalie Murphy.  “Alcoholism and Family Abuse in Maggie and The Bluest
          Eye.”  Mosaic 19.3 (1986): 91-105.