LibGuides: MLA 9 Resource Center: Book with Personal Author(s)

Book with Personal Author

For more examples, see the MLA Handbook, 9th Edition, Appendix 2. Copies are available in all GHC Libraries.

Additional examples are provided on the Works Cited List Entries page of the MLA Style Center website.

Material Type	In-text Citation	Works Cited
Book with one author	(Brinkley 525)	Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. 7th ed., McGraw Hill, 2014, p. 525.
Book with two authors	(Wilson and Schlosser 67)	Wilson, Charles, and Eric Schlosser. Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Book with three or more authors	(James et al. 157-165)	James, Charles, et al. The Sociological History of People and Places. Magnolia Press, 2005.
Book with no author	(Beowulf 16-31)	Beowulf. Translated by Burton Raffel, Signet, 2008.
Electronic book (Internet, available to everyone)	(Wilde 83)	Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1890. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/files/174/174-h/174-h.htm.
Electronic book (Login required)	(Hardy 58-60)	Hardy, Thomas. Far From The Madding Crowd. The Floating Press, 2009. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).
Part of a book from an online database (chapter, essay, piece)	(Rosenfelt 427)	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).
Electronic book (Read on an eReader device i.e. Nook, Kindle, etc.)	(Austen 101)	Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Amazon Digital Services, 2012.