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[ Citing Author(s)/No Author(s) in MLA Style ]


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.

handbook  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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MLA Citation Style Examples

Revised (June 4, 2008)
Created (August 2003)
Current Author: Carolyn Johnson
Links Verified (November 2003)
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