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MLA Documentation: Works Cited (from the 6th edition)
Note: This information is also available in .pdf format. Depending on your monitor size, the spacing for the examples below may not look consistent. Entries should be double-spaced. The examples here are guidelines only; the best resource is the MLA handbook itself.

This handout gives the most commonly used citations from the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Fifth Edition. For more information, please refer to this handbook. The section numbers below refer to the above edition.

In your citations, use a hanging indent: the first line is left justified while every line thereafter is indented.

Books (Sec. 5.6)
  1. Author's name (last name first on first author only).
  2. Title of Book
  3. Name of editor, translator, or compiler.
  4. Edition used.
  5. Number of volume(s) used.
  6. Name of series.
  7. Place of publication: name of publisher, year of publication.
  8. Page numbers.
  9. Supplementary bibliographic information and annotation.

One Author
Author Last, Author First. Title. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.

Murakami, Haruki. Norwegian Wood. Trans. Jay Rubin. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.


Two Authors
Last Name, First Name and First Last Name. Title. Place of publication: Publisher, year of

     publication.

Amano, Yoshitaka, and Unno Hiroshi. Amano: The Complete Works of Yoshitaka Amano. New York:

     Harper Design International, 2003.


Edited Book
Editor Last, First, ed. Title. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.

Lubiano, Wahneema, ed. The House that Race Built. New York: Vintage, 1998.


Two or More Books by the Same Author (3 hyphens indicate the same author)
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. New York: Penguin, 1997.

---. Dharma Blues. New York: Penguin, 1991.


A Work in an Anthology/ Compilation (short story, poem, or another work)
Author Last, First. "Title." Trans. Translator First Last. Title of Anthology. Ed. Editor First Last.

     Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.

Ionesco, Eugene. "The Bald Saprano." Trans. Donald. M. Allen. Four Plays by Eugene Ionesco. New

     York: Grove Press, 1958.

 
Films (Sec. 4.8.3)

Title. Dir. Director First Last. Screenply by First Last. Perf. List performers First Last. Distributor:

     year of release. Other information optional.

Pulp Fiction. Dir. Quentin Tarantino. Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery. Perf. John

     Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Uma Thurman. Miramax: 1994.

 
Interviews (Sec. 5.8.7) 

Name of person interviewed, kind of interview (personal, telephone) and date. 

Anderson, Paul T. Personal Interview. 20 Dec. 1999.
  
Periodicals (Sec. 5.7)

  1. Author's name.
  2. "Title of Article"
  3. Name of Periodical
  4. Series number or name
  5. Volume number
  6. Issue number
  7. Date of publication:
  8. Page numbers
  9. Supplementary information.

Article in a Newspaper
 Author Last, First. "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper date published (day month year): page.

Boyar, Jay. "The Art of Bad Film Criticism." The Orlando Sentinel 7 Jan. 2000: C4.

Article in a Magazine
 Author Last, First. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine date published (month year): page.

Amelar, Sarah. "Restoration on 42nd Street." Architecture Mar. 1998: 146-150.

Article in a Scholarly Journal with Continuous Pagination
Author Last, First. "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume. Issue(year): page.

Most, Andrea. "We Know We Belong." PLMA 113(1998): 77-89.