MLA Handbook 7 Edition Book Author(s). Title of Book. City of

Sample Works Cited Entries – MLA Handbook 7th Edition
(Skip any information which is not available.)
Book
Author(s). Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Print.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
Article in a Reference Book or Edited Collection (Page numbers may be omitted for alphabetized sources.)
Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Book. Editor. Volume. City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Pages. Print.
"The Great Gatsby." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 64-86. Print.
Newspaper or Magazine Article
Author(s). “Title of Article.” Magazine or Newspaper. Date: Pages. Print.
Page, Susan. "Health Care Fight Tricky to Wage." USA Today. 10 Aug. 2009: A.1. Print.
Gross, Daniel. “The Recession is Over! Now What We Need is a New Kind of Recovery.” Newsweek. 3 Aug.
2009: 32-37. Print.
Academic Journal Article
Author(s). “Title of Article.” Journal Title Volume.Issue (Year): Pages. Print.
Musgrave, Gerald L. "Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes, 4th ed." Business
Economics 43.2 (April 2008): 78(2). Print.
Article or eBook from an Online Database
For a database article, use the normal citation for a similar print source (or as much of it as you can find), then
add the following information:
… Database Name. Web. Date of Access.
"Lord of the Flies." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 174-195. Gale Virtual
Reference Library. Web. 23 Oct. 2014.
Tumulty, Karen, and Sophia Yan. "Can Obama Find a Cure?" Time 174.4 (10 Aug. 2009): 26. MAS Ultra School Edition. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.
Daschle, Tom, Jeanne M. Lambrew, and Scott S. Greenberger. Critical: What We Can Do About the HealthCare Crisis. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008. Google Books. Web. 9 Jan. 2015.
Webpage (Include a URL after Date of Access only for sources that are difficult to locate without it. MLA7: 5.6.1)
Author(s) or Editor(s). “Title of Page.” Title of Web Site. Publisher or sponsor of site, Date of Publication. Web.
Date of Access.
Tyre, Peg. “Standardized Tests in College?” Newsweek. Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2007. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
An Online Image, Video or Sound (See MLA7: 5.6.2d for additional information.)
Artist. Title of Work. Year. Medium. Database or Web site. Publisher or sponsor, Date of Publication. Web.
Date of Access.
(“Title of Work” is displayed in quotation marks if the work is part of a larger work.)
Max, Ernst. The Hat Makes the Man. 1920. Drawing. MoMA. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
“Houston, Texas.” Map. Google Maps. Google, 24 May 2013. Web. 24 May 2014.
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Works Cited
Daschle, Tom, Jeanne M. Lambrew, and Scott S. Greenberger. Critical: What We Can Do About
the Health-Care Crisis. New York: St. Martin’s, 2008. Google Books. Web. 9 Jan. 2015.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
Alphabetize entries,
ignoring an initial A,
An or The.
"The Great Gatsby." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1997.
64-86. Print.
Gross, Daniel. “The Recession is Over! Now What We Need is a New Kind of Recovery.”
Newsweek. 3 Aug. 2009: 32-37. Print.
“Houston, Texas.” Map. Google Maps. Google, 24 May 2009. Web. 24 May 2014.
"Lord of the Flies." Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 174-195.
Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 23 Oct. 2014.
Max, Ernst. The Hat Makes the Man. 1920. Drawing. MoMA. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
Musgrave, Gerald L. "Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes,
4th ed." Business Economics 43.2 (April 2008): 78(2). Print.
Page, Susan. "Health Care Fight Tricky to Wage." USA Today. 10 Aug. 2009: A.1. Print.
Tumulty, Karen, and Sophia Yan. "Can Obama Find a Cure?" Time 174.4 (10 Aug. 2009): 26.
MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.
Tyre, Peg. “Standardized Tests in College?” Newsweek. Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2007. Web. 14
Aug. 2014.
In-text Parenthetical Citation Examples
(Daschle, Lambrew, and Greenberger 6)
(Golding 54)
("Great Gatsby" 72)
(Gross 33)
(“Houston, Texas”)
("Lord of the Flies" 180)
(Max)
(Musgrave 78)
(Page A.1.)
(Tumulty and Yan 26)
(Tyre)