Basic Works Cited Entry
Author's last name, Author's first name. Title of the Book. Publisher, Year. |
Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. Viking, 2008. |
Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler. The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection. Little, 2009. |
Charon, Rita et al. The Principles and Practices of Narrative Medicine. Oxford UP, 2017. |
Steinberg, Shirley R., and Joe L. Kincheloe, editors. Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture. Westview, 2009. |
Inside your paper, give credit to the works you quote.
See examples of how to tell your readers where facts, paraphrases, or quotes in your paper come from at this site from the Purdue OWL: MLA 2021 In-text Citations.
Additional examples and explanations for book citations, including and beyond those given here, are found in the MLA Handbook (2021). You can also visit the websites listed on the MLA home page.