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