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Books- Print

GENERAL FORMAT: 

Last name, First name, Middle initial. Title of the Book: Subtitle if Available. Publisher, Publication date, Location.

 

Book with one author

Nevius, Blake. Edith Wharton, a Study of Her Fiction. University of California

        Press, 1953.

 

Book with two authors

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer

        Tutoring. Allyn and Bacon, 2022.

 

Book with more than two authors

Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State UP, 2023.

 

A new edition of a book published before 1900

Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.  new ed., London, 1851.

 

See pg. 313 of the MLA Handbook for more information

Books- Online

GENERAL FORMAT: 

Last name, First name, Middle initial. Title of the Book: Subtitle if Available. Publisher, Publication date, Name of the Database, hyperlink.

E-Book from a library database

McClean, Shilo T., and Lisa Nealson. Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film. MIT Press, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, unr.idm.oclc.org/ search.proquest.com/login.aspxv=EB&ppid.

 

E-Book from a website

Henty, George Alfred. The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt. Blackie and Son, 1889. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29756pg29756. 

 

See pg. 316 of the MLA Handbook for more information