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MLA Citation Style, 9th Edition

Chapter from an Edited Work - Examples

In-Text:     

(Harris 26)

Works Cited:

Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One, edited by Ben Rafoath, Heinemann, 2000, pp. 24-34.

 

NOTE: When a work that is normally independent (such as a novel or play) appears in a collection, the work's title remains in italics:

Euripides. The Trojan Women. Ten Plays, translated by Paul Roche, New American Library, 1998, pp. 457-512.

 

The numbers following the publication information in the works cited entry are the page numbers of the chapter.