MLA Style Guide (8th Edition): Citing Books
See these Examples of Book References in MLA Style
Book, No Author:
World Development Report. Oxford UP, 1989.
Book, One Author:
Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford UP, 2011.
Book, Two Authors, Second Edition:
Nuechterlein, Jonathan, and Philip Weiser. Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age. 2nd. ed., MIT P, 2007.
Book, More Than Three Authors:
Blaikie, Peirs, et al. Nepal in Crisis: Growth and Stagnation at the Periphery. Oxford UP, 1980.
Book, with Editor:
Del Castillo, Adelaida R., editor. Between Borders: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History. Floricanto,1990.
Book with Two Editors:
Werther, David and Susan Werther, editors. C. S. Lewis's List: The Ten Books that Influenced Him Most, Bloomsbury, 2015.
Book, with Translator, Two Volume Set:
Gall, Lothar. Bismarck: The White Revolutionary. Translated by J.A. Underwood, vol. 2, Allen & Unwin,1986.
Electronic Book from an e-Book platform:
Gikandi, Simon. Ngugi wa Thiong'a. Cambridge, UP, 2000. ACLS Humanities E-book, hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07588.
Chapter or Article Within a Book:
Li, Charlene and Josh Bernoff. "The Social Technographics Profile." Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social technologies, Harvard Business P, 2008. pp. 39-62.
Chapter or Article Within an Edited Book:
Marcus, Jane. "The Asylums of Antaeus: Women, War, and Madness -- Is There a Feminist Fetish?." The New Historicism, edited by H. Aram Vesser, Routledge, 1989. pp. 132-151.
