MLA: Print Resources

BOOKS:

Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City Where Published: Publisher, Year

     Published.

Type

Entry

One Author

Tomecek, Stephen M. What a Great Idea:

     Inventions That Changed the World. New

     York: Scholastic, 2003.

Two books by same author

Murphy, Jim. An American Plague. New York:

     Scholastic, 2003.

---. Inside the Alamo. New York: Delacorte

     Press, 2003.

Two or three authors

Rhatigan, Joe, and Rain Newcomb. Out-of-This-

     World Astronomy. New York: Lark Books,

     2003.

More than three authors

Banks, James A., et. al. Latin America and

     Canada. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

     School Publishing Co., 1995.

No author

The American Spirit: Meeting the Challenge of

     September 11. New York: Life Books, 2002.

Editor

Haugen, Hayley Mitchell, ed. Teen Smoking.

     San Diego: Thomson Gale, 2004.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Encyclopedia. Date Published.

Type

Entry

Signed (Author listed)

Dakan, Olga. "Eskimo Dog." World Book

     Encyclopedia. 1998.

Unsigned (No author listed)

"Raquetball." World Book Encyclopedia.

   2003.

MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Magazine or Newspaper  Date

     Published: Page Numbers.

Type

Entry

Magazine Article

Merrill, Christopher. "An Athlete's Ordeal."

     Sports Illustrated 18 October 1993: 17-19.

Newspaper Article

Neuzil, Mark. "Hawks, Hoosiers Still in the

     Hunt." The Cedar Rapids Gazette 24

     October 1988: 1B.

Note: For an unsigned article, begin with the title.