MLA 8 ( modern language Association ( M.L.A.) -8 HANDBOOK) WITH EXMPLES

PLEASE REMEMBER

1. For a detailed and in -depth understanding of citations please refer the MLA-8 Handbook.the below list covers only the basic examples .

2. examples in text citations have not been included in this list.

3.the bold font used throught the only for thr purpose of highlighting no bold front is to used in actual citations.

4.the final work cited \references list is to be arranged in an alphabetical order

 

1. An Article in a school Journal :-

   Boron, Naomi S. "Redefining reading :The Impact of Digital Communication Media " PMLA, VOL. 128,no,1 , Jan.2013, pp. 193-200. 

Kincaid , Jamaica. '' In  History '' Callaloo, vol . 24, no. 2 , spring 2001 ,pp. 620-26.

Kafka, Ben.'' The Demon of  writing ; paperwork , public safety, and the reign of  Terror .'' Representations, no. 98, 2007, pp. 1-24.

 

2.A Book by Single Author.

Jacobs, Alan . The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction. Oxford UP, 2011

Puig, Manuel. kiss of  the Spider Woman. Translated by Thomas Colchie , Vintage books, 1991.

Chartier, Roger. the order of Books ; Readers and Authours , and Libaries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries.Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane, standford UP 1994.

3. A Book by Two Authors :- 

   Dorris Michael, and Louies Erdrich.   The Crown of Columbus. HarperCollins  publishers, 1999.

4.A Book By Three or More Authors :- 

 Brudick, Anne, et al. Digital_Humanities.MIT P, 2012.

5. A Book by Two or More Editors :- 

 Baron, Sabrina Alcorn, et al, editors. Agent of  Change; Print  Culture Studies after Elizabeth L, Eisenstein. U of Massachusetts P\ Centeral for the Book, Library of Congress, 2007.

6. A Book by Two Editors :-

Holland, Merlin, and Rupert hart -Davis, editors. The Completes Letters of Oscars Wilde. Henry Holt, 2000.

7. Translated work ;-

pevear, Richard, and Larissa  volokhonsky, translators. Crime and  Punishment. By Feodor Dostoevsky, Vintage eBooks, 1993.

8. Film and Television :

  Gellar , sarah Michelle, and performer. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Mutant Enemy 1997-2003.

Whedon, Joss, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Mutant Enemy, 1997-2003.

9. Anonymous Works :-

When a work published without an Author's  name, do not list the author  as "Anonymous " Instead, skip the authors element and begin the entry with the works title.

Beowulf. Translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, edited by Sarah Anderson, person 2004.

10. A collection of Essays, stories, or poems by various authors.:-

Baron, Sabrina Alcorn, et al., editors. agent of change: print culture studies after Elizabeth L.Eisenstein. U of  Massachusetts P/ center for the book, Library of congress, 2007.

11. An Essay , a story , or a Poem in a [n] [ edited] collection:-

  ESSAY 

     Dewar James A., and Peng Hwa Ang '' The Cultural Consequences of Printing and the Internet. '' Agent of Change ; Printing Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein , edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron et al. U of Massachusetts P / Center for the book, Liberary of Congress, 2007 pp.356-77.

STORY 

Poe, Edgar Allan. ''the Masque of the Red Death ''     The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe eddited by James A. Harrison, Vol. 4, thomas Y. Crowell, 1902, pp. 250- 58

NOVEL:-

Howells, W. D.Their Weddding Journey. Edited by John K.Reeves, 1968 A selected Eddition of W.D.Howellws, general editor , Edwin H.Cady , vol. 5, Indiana up , 1968-83 .

12.An Article on a Website :-

  Hollmichel, Stafenie, '' the reading Brain: Differences between Digital and print '' so many Books, 25 Apr, 2013, htps//somanybooksblog.com/2013/04/25/thereading-brain-differences-between-digitaland-print/. Accessed 05 June  2018. [ NOT MENTIONED IN THE HANDBOOK ]

13. Review :- 

Mackin, Joseph. Review of the Pleasures of reading in an age of distraction, by Alan Jacobs.

New     York    Journal      of      Books, 2 June   2011,

www.nyjournalofbooks.com/bookreview/pleasures-reading-age-distraction. Accessed 05 June  2018. [ NOTE MENTIONED IN THE HANDBOOK ]

14. Online  E- Book :-

   Girkandi, Simon. Nagugi wa  Thiong 'O. Cambridge Up, 2000. ACLS Humanities E -book,

          hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07588.0001.001.

15. Version :- 

The Bible , Authorised king James Versions, Oxford Up, 1198.

Newcomb,Horace,editor.Televison: The Critical View. 7th ed., Oxford UP, 2007.

16. Multivolume  work :-

  Rampersad, Arnold. The life of Langston Huges. 2nd ed., vol.2 Oxford UP, 2002.

  Wellek,Rene.  A History of Modern  Criticism, 1750-1950. Vol. 5, Yale UP, 1986.8 vols. [ Total Volumes ]

17. Date of Original Publication :-

   When a source has been republished, Consider giving the date of original publication if it will provide the reader with insight into the work's creation or relation the other works.The date of original publication is placed immediately after the source's title.

 Franklin, Benjamin. '' Emigration to America ''1782. The Faber Book of America, edited by Christopher Ricks and William L.Vance,Faber and Faber, 1992 .pp.24-26.

Newcomb, Horace,editor. Television.the critical views. 1976.7th ed., Oxford UP, 2007.

18. City  of Publication 

 For Books Published before 1900.

 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von.Conversation of Gothe with Eckermann and Sorter. Translated by john oxenford, new ed., London, 1875.

18.1 

  A published with offices in more than one country may release a novel in two versions - perhaps with different spelling and vocabulary. if you read an unexpected versions of a text ( such as  the British editions when you are in the United states.) , stating the city of the publication will  help your readers u Understand your source. Place the Name of the city Before that of the publisher.

Rowling, J, K. Harry Potter and the philosopher's Stone. London, Bloomsbury,1997.

 

Note:-

     The date of access is specially crucial if the source provides no date specifying  when it  was produced or published.

 

     

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