MLA Style

Follow these examples of MLA style by number of authors:

• One author
• Two authors
• Three or more authors (new for 8th ed.)
• Editor and NO author
• Author and Editor
• Corporate Author (association, committee, commission, etc.)
• No author

Works cited page:

Thomas, Ronald R. Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science. Cambridge UP, 1999.

In-text:

Thomas’s findings indicate . . . (156).  OR    . . . (Thomas 156).

(See p. 21 of the MLA Handbook)

Works cited page:

• Cite both authors and only reverse/invert the name of the first author.

Bloom, Jonathan, and Sheila Blair. Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power. Knopf, 2000. 

In-text:

• Use "and" between authors’ names.

Bloom and Blair compare . . . (14).  OR . . . (Bloom and Blair 14).

(See p. 21 of the MLA Handbook)

Works cited page:

Beebe, Steven A., et al. Communication: Principles for a Lifetime. Canadian ed. Pearson, 2005.

In-text:

Beebe et al. suggest that . . . (89).  OR    . . . (Beebe et al. 89).

(See p. 22 and sec. 3.1.1 of the MLA Handbook)

Works cited page:

Price, Richard T., editor. The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties. 3rd ed. University of Alberta P, 1999. 

In-text:

• Since the information was edited, do not use the editor's name as if he or she wrote it.

 . . . (Price 186).

(See p. 23 of the MLA Handbook)

Works cited page:

Lewis, Barbara A. What Do You Stand For? A Kid’s Guide to Building Character, edited by Pamela Espeland, Free Spirit, 1998. 

In-text:

Lewis supports the argument by . . . (145).  OR    . . . (Lewis 145).

(See pp. 37-38 of the MLA Handbook)

Works cited page:

Begin the citation with the title when there is no author or editor listed.

(See p. 24 of the MLA Handbook)