MLA Book Citation

Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. Title of Source: Subtitle of Source. Version, Publisher, Publication Date. 

Examples:

Forester, Tom and Perry Morrison. Computer Ethics: Cautionary Tales and Ethical Dilemmas in

       Computing.  2nd ed., MIT P, 1994.

Lee, Stan. Their Darkest Hour. The Avengers Omnibus, edited by Cory Sedlmeier, vol. 1, no. 7, Marvel

        Worldwide, 1988, pp. 155-178.

Plag, Ingo, et al. Introduction to English Linguistics. Mouton, 2007. 

Sternberg, Elaine. Just Business: Business Ethics in Action. 2nd ed., Oxford UP,

         2000.

The Avengers entry includes a comic published within an collection of comic books.  For that reason, more details including page numbers and a container become part of the entry.

MLA eBook Citation

Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. Title of Source: Subtitle of Source. Title of Container 2, Version, Publisher, Publication Date, Location.

eBook Examples:

Neilbert, Michael S. Fighting the Great War: A Global History. Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost), Harvard UP,

      2005.

Pederson, Laura. Buffalo Gal: A Memoir. ProQuest ebrary, Fulcrum, 2008.

Walsh, John Evangelist, Emily Dickinson in Love: The Case for Otis Lord, ProQuest ebrary, Rutgers UP,

       2012.

Warkentin, Merrill, and Rayford Vaughn. Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and

       System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues. EBook Collection (EBSCOhost), IGI Global, 2006.

MLA recommends the use of URLs in the Works Cited, but the final determination will be made by your professor.  When citing an article from a database, the URL cannot always be accessed, so it is helpful to name the database as the container name.  Since MLA 8 values concise citations that are useful to the reader, a long URL that will not necessarily lead to a source should be omitted from the citation.  

Remember, the URL should not include http:// as part of the given location.

MLA Chapter or Authored Section of an Edited Book/ebook Citation

Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. "Title of Source." Title of Container: Subtitle of Container, Other Contributor(s), Publisher, Publication Date, Location (if needed).

Examples: 

Glancy, Diane. "The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance." Keepers of

     the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater, edited by Jaye T. Darby and

     Stephanie Fitzgerald, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2003, pp. 187-204.

Levine, Stacey. "The Tree." Fairy Tale Review: The Green Issue, eBook Collection,

     edited by Kate Bernheimer, U of Alabama P, 2007, pp. 74-78.