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MLA Style Guide, 8th Edition


Parts of Books

In-Text Citation

(O'Brien 689)

Works Cited

O'Brien, Tim. "The Things They Carried." Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, edited by Robert DiYanni, 6th ed., McGraw Hill, 2007, pp. 684-97.

In-Text Citation

(Damrosch xxi)

Works Cited

Damrosch, David and David L. Pike. Preface. The Longman Anthology of World Literature, edited by Damrosch, et al, 2nd ed., Pearson Education, 2009, pp. xxi-xxv.


Start the citation with author of the introduction/preface.

In-Text Citation

(Wyatt ii)

Works Cited

Wyatt, David. Introduction. East of Eden, by John Steinbeck, Penguin, 1992, pp. i-vi.


Start the citation with author of the introduction/preface.

Parts of eBooks

In-Text Citation

(Porter 13)

Works Cited

Porter, Carolyn. "Ann Beattie: The Art of the Missing." The Contemporary American Women Writers: Native Strategies, edited by William J. Scheick and Catherine Rainwater, UP of Kentucky, 2015, pp. 9-28. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).

In-Text Citation

(Milne 202)

Works Cited

Milne, Ira Mark, editor. "The Pearl." Short Stories for Students, vol. 22, Gale, 2006, pp. 198-215. Gale Virtual Reference Library, db12.linccweb.org/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com.db12.linccweb.org/ps/i.do?p=GLS&sw=w&u=lincclin_ircc&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX3423600021&asid=0ae289f9ef022738a99752be2647ef1b.

Reference Works

In-Text Citation

(Munro and Munro 553)

Works Cited

Munro, Brenda, and Gordon Munro. “Family, Definition Of.” International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, edited by James J. Ponzetti, Jr., 2nd ed., vol. 2, Gale Group, 2003, pp. 549-­55.

In-Text Citation

("Cuba" 235)

Works Cited

"Cuba." Political Handbook of the World 2014, edited by Tom Lansford, CQ Press, 2014, pp. 354-8.