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| One or More Author(s) |
One Author: Last Name, First Name.
Example: Wyatt, Patricia. |
Two Authors: Last Name, First Name, and First Name Last Name.
Example: Coniglio,
Giuli, and Michael Hobbs.
|
Three
Authors: Last Name, First Name, First Name Last Name, and First
Name Last Name
Example: Johnson,
Carolyn V., Connie Ury, and Joyce Meldrem, eds. |
More Than Three Authors:
Example: Mardis,
Lori, et al. |
| No Author Given |
Start
the entry with the title of the book:
The Scarlet Letter.
|
Start
the entry with the title of the article:
"Conrad's
Chance and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter". |
| Multiple Works by Same Author(s) |
|
When citing two
or more items by the same author(s), give the name of the author(s)
in the first entry only. For subsequent entries by
the same author(s),
begin the citation with three hyphens followed by a period and
one space. Then, the title of the work follows as usual. |
 |
For
additional examples, see the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers,
808.02
M68m, Library Services Desk, 1st Floor, Owens Library, or check your local
library. |
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