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A Concise Works Cited Guide for MLA (7 th ed.)Books & MediaThe information needed to cite a book consists of three main components, the author, title, andpublication information (place: publisher, date.) Indent the 2 nd line five spaces.Author Tips If you have two works by the same author(s), type the author’s name for the first entry. Typethree hyphens in place of the author’s name thereafter. See “Gladwell” below (5.3.4). If you don’t have an author, start your citation with the title. See “Nucleus” below (5.5.9).A Book by One Author (5.5.2)Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2005.Print.---. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2002. Print.A Book with Two or More Authors (5.5.4)[If you have four or more authors, list the first author, followed by et al. See “Anderson” below]Keene, Mary and Bradley T. Erford. Group Activities: Firing Up for Performance. Upper Saddle River, NJ:Pearson-Merrill-Prentice Hall, 2007. Print.A Work in an Anthology – (5.5.6; 5.5.13)Baldwin, James. “Sonny’s Blues.” Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction. Ed. Jan Zlotnik Schmidt andCarley Rees Bogarad. SCC ed. United States: Thomson-Heinle, 2008. 430-449. Print.An Anonymous Article in a Familiar Reference Book (5.5.7)“Nucleus.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 2003 ed. Print.An Authored Article in a Less-familiar Reference Set (5.5.14)Anderson, Martha, et al. “Tissue Banking and Transplantation, Ethical Issues In.” Encyclopedia ofBioethics. Ed. Stephen G. Post. 3rd ed. Vol. 5. New York: MacMillan-Thomson, 2004. Print.An Electronic Book from NetLibrary (5.6.2.c)Bjorgo, Tore, ed. Root Causes of Terrorism: Myths, Reality and Ways Forward. New York: Routledge, 2005.NetLibrary. Web. 12 Feb. 2009.A Movie on a DVD (5.7.3)It’s a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and ThomasMitchell. 1946. Republic, 2001. DVD.

ArticlesArticles from Print SourcesBasic form for citing journal articles. (You do not need volume and issue number with magazine articles. See“Crowley” below):Author. “Article Title.” Journal Title Volume number.Issue number (Year): Page numbers (if not given,type n. pag. in place of the page numbers).An Article in a Scholarly JournalMolloy, Sylvia. “Afterword: the Buenos Aires Affair.” PMLA 122.1 (2007): 352-356. Print.An Article in a Magazine (5.4.6.)Crowley, Michael. “The Crying Game.” New Republic 30 Jan. 2008: 7-8. Print.An Article in a NewspaperHummel, Rick. “BoSox, Yanks Made Magic Moments Here.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch 5 June 2005, Five Star Lifted.: D8+. Print.Articles From a Library DatabaseFormat for citing an article from a library database:Author. “Article Title.” Journal Title. Volume number.Issue number (Year): Page numbers.Database Name. Web. Access date.CQ Researcher OnlineClark, Charles S. “Charter Schools.” The CQ Researcher Online 12.44 (2002). Web. 18 Aug. 2004.Academic Search PremierMainieri, Tina, et al. “Green Buying: The Influence of Environmental Concern on Consumer Behavior.”Journal of Social Psychology 137.2 (1997): 189-204. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web.19 July 2011.LexisNexis AcademicBuchanan, Wyatt. “More Same-Sex Couples Want Kids: Survey Looks at Trends among Homosexuals.”San Francisco Chronicle 25 Apr. 2006 final ed.: B3. LexisNexis Academic. Web. 21 Feb. 2009.Opposing ViewpointsClear, Todd R. “Imprisonment Does Not Reduce Crime.” America’s Prisons. Ed. Roman Espejo. San Diego:Greenhaven Press, 2002. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Web. 20 Aug. 2004.Updated July 2011▪ Reference Staff – refdrop@stchas.edu ▪ St. Charles Community College Library