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MLA Style Guide, 8th Edition


Books with Editor(s)

In-Text Citation

(Tynan 131)

Works Cited

Tynan, Kenneth. "The Kansas Farm Murders." The Critical Response to Truman Capote, edited by Joseph J. Waldmeir and John C. Waldmeir, Greenwood Press, 1999, pp. 129-34.​

In-Text Citation

(Coetzee vi-viii)

Works Cited

Coetzee, J. M. Introduction. The Confusions of Young Torless, by Robert Musil, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Penguin Classics, 2001, pp. xix-xxxvi.


If you are citing a portion of the book written by the editor, begin with the editor. Give the author's name after the title preceded by [by].

In-Text Citation

(O'Brien 690)

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

(Tallett and Trim 311-21)

Works Cited

Tallett, Frank and D.J.B. Trim, editors. European Warfare, 1350-1750. Cambridge UP, 2010.