Book by single author
Author's name. Title of the Book. city of publication: publisher's name, year of publication
Ma, Raymond. The Injustice of MLA Citations. Dallas: CrazyPrint, 2003.
Anthology or compilation of works
Name of editor or compiler, (ed. or comp.). Title of work. publication information.
Dude, Weird, comp. and ed. Stupidity: Tales of High School Idiots. New York:
Funky-Scholastic, 2001.
Two or more books by the same author
Guy, Stupid. Eight Simple Steps to becoming an Idiot. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1998.
---, trans. How to be a Loser. Dallas: Scholastics, 1999.
---. Hi, I'm with Stupid. New York: Norton, 2000.
Book by two or more authors
Eggins, Suzanne, and Diana Slade. Analysing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997.
Rabkin, Eric S., Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. No Place Else:
Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Carbondale: S Illinois UP, 1983.
Gilman, Sander, et al. Hysteria beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
Book by a corporate author
National Research Council. Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population.
Washington: Natl. Acad., 2000.
Work in an anthology
Allende, Isabel. "Toad's Mouth." Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. A Hammock beneath the
Mangoes: Stories from Latin America. Ed. Thomas Colchie. New York: Plume,
1992. 83-88.
Franco, Veronica. "To the Painter Jacopo Tintoretto." Poems and Selected Letters. Ed. and
trans. Ann Rosalind Jones and Margaret F. Rosenthal. Chicago: U of Chicago P,
1998. 35-37.
Article in a reference book
"Aximuthal Equidistant Projection." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 1993.
"Mandarin." The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed.
Introduction, preface, foreword, afterword
Borges, Jorge Luis. Foreword. Selected Poems, 1923-1967. By Borges. Ed. Norman
Thomas Di Giovanni. New York: Delta-Dell, 1973. xv-xvi.
An edition of a book
Bondanella, Peter. Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present. 3rd ed. New York:
Continuum, 2001.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F. N. Robinson. 2nd ed. Boston:
Houghton, 1957.
Multivolume work
Blanco, Richard L. ed. The American Revolution, 1775-1783: An Encyclopedia. 2nd ed.
2 vols. Hamden: Garland, 1993.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Oxford Sherlock Homes. Ed. Owen Dudley Edwards. Vol. 8. New
York: Oxford UP, 1993.
Book in a series
Murck, Alfreda. Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent. Harvard-
Yenching Inst. Monograph Ser. 50. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.
Book with multiple publishers Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. 1895. London: Dent; Rutland: Tuttle, 1992. Book missing some publication information - put n.p., n.d., or n.pag. where the part is missing
