MLA Style: Writing & Citation

Works Cited List:

Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Book: Subtitle. Edition if given, Publisher Name, Year of publication. 

 Kirsh, Steven J. Children, Adolescents, and Media Violence: A Critical Look at the Research. 2nd ed., Sage, 2006. 

In-Text Citation:

 (Author's Last Name Page Number)

(Kirsh 70)

Works Cited List:

Last Name of Author, First Name, and First Name of author Last Name. Title of Book: Subtitle, Edition if given, Publisher Name, Year of publication. 

 Wykes, Maggie, and Barrie Gunter. The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill. Sage, 2005. 

In-Text Citation:            

 (Author's Last Name and Author's Last Name Page Number)

  (Wykes and Gunter 53)

*Note: Only the first author listed appears in "Last Name, First Name" format. Authors' names are separated by a comma. Before the last author to be listed, use the word "and", don't use an ampersand (&). 

Works Cited List: 

Last Name, First Name of First Author, et al. Title of Book: Subtitle, Edition if given, Publisher Name, Year of publication. 

  Nickels, William, et al. Understanding Canadian Business. 9th ed., McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2016. 

In-Text Citation:

(First Author's Last Name et al. Page Number)

(Nickels et al. 5)

 *Note: If you have three or more authors list only the first author's name followed by 'et al' (it means 'and others'), instead of listing all authors' names. For example: Smith, John, et al. The first author is the first name listed on the work you are citing, not the first name alphabetically.

Works Cited List:

Author's Last Name, First Name. Title: Subtitle. Edition if given, eBook or specific provider (using the abbreviation "ed." for "edition"), Publisher, year of publication. 

 Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. Nook ed., Liveright Publishing, 2015. 

In-Text Citation:

 (Author's Last Name Page Number)

 (Beard 70)

Works Cited List:

Author's Last Name, First Name. Title: Subtitle. Edition if given, Publisher, year of publication. Name of library database.  

Block, Bruce A. The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media. Focal P/Elsevier, 2008. ebrary.

In-Text Citation: 

 (Author's Last Name Page Number)

 (Block 132)

Works Cited List:

Last Name of First Author, First Name, and First Name Last Name of Second Author. Title of Book: Subtitle, Edition if given, Publisher, year of publication. Name of Library Database. 

Jamsa, Kris, and Andy Anderson. HTML and Web Design: Tips and Techniques, McGraw- Hill/Osborne, 2002. EBSCO eBook and Audiobook Collection.

In-Text Citation:

  (Author's Last Name and Author's Last Name Page Number)

Example: (Jamsa and Anderson 22)

 *Note: Only the first author listed appears in "Last Name, First Name" format. Authors' names are separated by a comma. Before the last author to be listed, use the word "and", don't use an ampersand (&). 

Works Cited List:

Last Name of First Author, First Name, et al. Title: Subtitle, Edition if given, Publisher, year of publication. Name of library database. 

  Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska, et al. A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy, Fordham UP, 2008. EBSCO eBook and Audiobook Collection.

In-Text Citation:

(First Author's Last Name et al. Page Number)

 (Ziarek et al. 75)

 *Note: If you have three or more authors you may choose to list only the first author's name followed by ‘et al.’ instead of listing all authors names. For example: Smith, John, et al. The first author is the first name listed on the work you are citing, not the first name alphabetically.

Works Cited List: 

Author's Last Name, First Name. Title: Subtitle. Edition if given, Publisher Name, year of publication, Website Name, URL. Access Date.

  Henty, George Alfred. The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt. Blackie and Son, 1889. HathiTrust Digital Library, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073478847. Accessed 6 July 2016.

In-Text Citation:

 (Author's Last Name Page Number)

 (Henty 132)

Works Cited List: 

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Short Story, Essay, or Article." Title of Book: Subtitle, edited by Editor's First Name and Last Name, Edition if given, Publisher, year of publication, Page or page range used. 

  Ross, Colin. "The Story of Grey Owl." Fiction/Non-Fiction: A Reader and Rhetoric, edited by Garry Engkent and Lucia Engkent, 2nd ed., Thomson Nelson, 2006, pp. 327-333. 

In-Text Citation:

 (Author's Last Name Page Number)

 Example: (Ross 332)

*Note: The first author's name listed is the author of the chapter/essay/short story.

 * Note: If there is no editor given you may leave out that part of the citation.

Works Cited List:

Name of Corporate Author. Title of Book: Subtitle, Edition if given, Publisher, year of Publication.

  Calgary Educational Partnership Foundation. Employability Skills: Creating My Future, Nelson, 1996. 

In-Text Citation:

  (Name of Corporate Author Page Number)

 (Calgary Educational Partnership Foundation 14)

*Note: When a work is published by an organization that is also its author, begin the entry with the title, skipping the author element, and list the organization only as publisher.

Works Cited List:

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Name of Journal, vol. Volume Number, no. Issue Number, Year, pp. range. Title of Course Package, compiled by Instructor's First Name Last Name, Seneca College, page range in course packet. Course Packet.

 Marlow, Susan. "Gender and Entrepreneurship." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, vol.19, no.1, 2013, pp. 114-124. BUS101: Cultural Entrepreneurship: A Reader, compiled by Estelle Williams, Seneca College, 2015, pp. 32-42. Course Packet.

In-Text Citation: 

 (Author's Last Name Page Number)

  (Marlow 34)

Works Cited List: 

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Short Story."  Year of publication of short story. Course Packet for Course name and number, compiled by Instructor's First Name Last Name, Name of College, Year, pp. page numbers in course packet. Course Packet.        

 Enberg, Susan. "Wednesday Rain." 2014. Course Packet for EAC150: College English, compiled by Walter Dey, Seneca College, 2015, pp. 5-32. Course Packet.

In-Text Citation: 

 (Author's Last Name Page Number)

 (Enberg 7)

Access Date

 Works from the web can typically be changed or removed at any time, so while it's optional, the date which you accessed material is often important.  This is especially true when there is no date specifying when an item was produced.This date will be added to the end of the entry. E.g. Accessed 23 July 2016.

Authors/Editors

An author can be a person but can also be an organization, or company. These are called group or corporate authors.

If you are citing a chapter from a book that has an editor, the author of the chapter is listed first, and is the name listed in the in-text citation.

Dates

The format of all dates is: Date Month (shortened) Year. E.g. 5 Sept. 2012.

Whether to give the year alone or include a month and day depends on your source: write the full date as you find it there.

If no date is listed, omit it unless you can find that information available in a reliable source. In that case the date is cited in square brackets. E.g. [2008]

Page Numbers

Page number on your Works Cited page (but not for in-text citations) are now proceeded by p. for a single page number and pp. for a range of page numbers. E.g. p. 156 or pp. 79-92.

Publishers

You have the option to use the shortened name of the publisher by using UP instead of University Press (e.g. Oxford UP, not Oxford University Press).

You also have the option to remove articles (A, An, The), business abbreviations (e.g. Co., Inc.) and descriptive words (e.g. Books, House, Press, Publishers).

Titles

Capitalize the first letter of every important word in the title. You do not need to capitalize words such as: in, of, or an.

If there is a colon (:) in the title, include what comes after the colon (also known as the subtitle).