MLA Style Guide (8th Edition): Citing Articles

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.

Scholarly Journal Article:

Baron, Naomi S. "Redefining Reading: The Impact of Digital Communication Media." PMLA, vol. 128, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 193-200.

Scholarly Journal Article in an Online Database:

Goldman, Anne. "Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante." The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR,www.jstor.org/stable/41403188.

Note: If a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is available, use it in place of a URL for online journal articles:

Chan, Evans. "Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema." Postmodern Culture, vol. 10, no. 3, May 2000. Project Muse, doi:10.1353/pmc.2000.0021.

Magazine Article:
Cohen, Adam. "The First 100 Days." Time,  6 Jul. 2009, pp. 32-34.

Online Magazine Article:

Deresiewicz, William. "The Death of the Artist -- and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur." The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2014, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/the-death-of-the-artist-and-the-birth-of-the-creative-entrepreneur/383497/.

Newspaper Article:
Lohr, Steve. "Health Care Technology is a Promise Unfinanced." The New York Times,, 3 Dec. 2004, C5.

Newspaper Article, No Author:
"A Chance to Learn." San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jul. 2009: A10.

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:
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Masque of the Red Death." The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison, vol. 4, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902, pp. 250-58.