Remember to put your Works Cited in alphabetical order, use hanging indentations, and double space them
Example Author:
Dick, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle. The Easton Press, 1988.
In-text citation: (Dick 37).
Example Editor:
Strong, Mary, editor. Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood. Harper & Row, 1948.
In-text citation: (Strong 157).
Example Authors:
Holman, C. Hugh, and William Harmon. A Handbook to Literature. McMillan Publishing Company, 1986.
In-text citation: (Holman and Harmon 10).
Example Editors:
Quirk, Tom, and Gary Scharnhorst, editors. American History Through Literature 1870-1920. Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008.
In-text citation: (Quirk & Scharnhorst 146).
Example Authors:
Barnet, Sylvan, et al. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument. 10th ed., Bedford/St. Martin's, 2020.
In-text citation: (Barnet et al. 352).
Example Editors:
Bauman, H-Dirksen L., et al., editors. Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature. University of California Press, 2006.
In-text citation: (Bauman et al. 122).
When there is no listed author or editor start the citation with the title of the book. The In-text citation will use a shortened version of the title.
Example:
MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
In-text citation: (MLA Handbook 15).
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