MLA Citation Examples

Elements:

1. Author.
2. Title of Book.
3. Contributor,
4. Version,
5. Publisher,
6. Publication Date.
7. Title of Database,
8. DOI or URL.

Format:

Author. Title of Book. Contributor, Version, Publisher, date. Title of Database, DOI or URL.

Note: If the publisher's name includes "University" or "Press," abbreviate those, without periods, for example:

• Princeton UP, 2014.
• U of Pittsburgh P, 1994.

See specific examples below. And see here for more information on DOIs and URLs.

Barkan, Leonard. Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures. Princeton UP, 2013. EBSCO eBooks, ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=503029&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Seton, Ernest Thompson. The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou. C. Scribner's Sons, 1911. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6818.

Thompson, Kate. "Journal Writing as a Therapeutic Tool." Writing Cures: An Introductory Handbook of Writing in Counselling and Psychotherapy, edited by Gillie Bolton, Routledge, 2004, pp. 72-84. EBSCO eBooks, ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=116959&site=ehost-live&scope=site.