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MLA Citation Style, 8th Edition: One Author or Editor

A University of Lethbridge Library guide to MLA style citations.

pp. 21-25, 54-55, 2.1

Example 1 – One Author

Last Name, First Name. Title. Publisher, Year of Publication.

IT:     (Bickerton 76)

WC:   Bickerton, Derek. More than Nature Needs: Language, Mind, and Evolution. Harvard UP, 2014.

               

Example 2 – One Editor

Last Name, First Name, editor. Title. Publisher, Year of Publication.

IT:     (Sell 13)

WC:   Sell, Roger D., editor. Literary Community-Making: The Dialogicality of English Texts from the Seventeenth

                  Century to the Present. John Benjamins, 2012.