Mla Citation Of Book In Text

This resource updated to reflect the mla handbook 8 th ed offers examples for the general format of mla research papers in text citations endnotes footnotes and the works cited page.

Mla citation of book in text. Cite this for me citation guides covers a lot of this additional information so your paper is more properly prepped and less likely to get points taken off for these details. For example in the novel being in love smith has defined love as a social impulse italicize being in love list the name of the author in parentheses along with the page number you are referencing. Name of e book device.

An mla in text citation includes the author s last name and a page number. Books on websites or books in databases. If a source has more than two authors name only the first author followed by et al.

Italicize the titles of books mentioned in the text. The citation guides cover several citation styles but the most popular are apa chicago manual of style mla harvard referencing normas apa and normas abnt. Plays books television shows entire web sites and provide a page number if it is available.

Translated or edited books. Mla modern language association style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. Publisher of the book.

Place the title in quotation marks if it s a short work such as an article or italicize it if it s a longer work e g. Additional information is needed when citing. In text citations include the last name of the author followed by a page number enclosed in parentheses.

An mla book citation always includes the author s title italicized publisher and publication year in the list of works cited. Here is an example of an mla in text citation for a book with two authors. If a source has two authors name both.