Library Instruction

Basic Format

• Author’s name.  Title of the book.  Place of publication: Name of publisher, Date of publication.

A Book with One Author/Editor

• Showalter, Elaine.  Sister's Choice.  New York: Oxford UP, 1991.

Two or More Books by the Same Author/Editor
(NOTE: Works listed under the same name are alphabetized by title.)

• Showalter, Elaine, ed.  The New feminist criticism.  New York: Pantheon, 1985.

• ---.  Sister's choice.  New York: Oxford UP, 1991.

A Book with Two or More Authors/Editors
(NOTE: Only the first author/editor’s name should be listed with the last name appearing first for the purpose of alphabetizing on the Works Cited; the other authors will be listed as “first name last name.”)

• Bilken, Sari and Diane Pollard, eds.  Gender and Education.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.
• Nelson, Candice, David Dulio, and Stephen Medvic, eds.  Shades of Gray.  Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2002.  

A Book with Four or More Authors/Editors
(NOTE: Only the first author/editor's name should be listed with "et al" submitted in place of the other names.)

• Kolodny, Robert, et al.  Textbook of Human Sexuality for Nurses.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

A Book by a Corporate Author

• American Psychological Association.  Casebook on Ethical Standards of Psychologists.  Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1974.

A Multivolume Work

• Cayton, Mary, and Peter W. Williams, eds.  Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History.  3 vols.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.

A Second or Later Edition

• Altick, Richard, and John J. Fenstermaker.  The Art of Literary Research.  4th ed.  New York:  Norton, 1993.

An Article or Chapter in an Anthology

• Magny, Claude-Edmonde.  "Faulkner or Theological Inversion."  Faulkner:  A Collection of Critical Essays.  Ed. Robert Penn Warren.  Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966.  66-78.

If your source does not appear in this guide or for further information or examples, consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Call Number: Ref LB2369 .G53 2003) available in the Ready Reference Collection at the Information Desk or in the Reference Collection.  You can also refer to the Instruction Office's list of resources; we specifically recommend Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL).  You can also contact the SIUE Writing Center or visit MLA's site.