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*LITERATURE RESEARCH*

Find an article, book,/eBook, video, citing example, or get research help from a librarian with an assignment.

Journals

NOTE: To standardize citations, all DOIs need to be proceeded by https: doi.org/ before the DOI number (p. 194).

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

(For more examples, see pages 194 and 319-321 of the 9th edition)

[ MLA article with DOI ]

 

IN TEXT 

(Caoncannon-Gibney 432).


WORKS CITED (TWO AUTHORS)

Barchas, Janine, and Devoney Looser. "Introduction: What's Next for Jane Austen?" Texas Studies in Literature & Language, vol. 61, no. 4, winter 2019, pp. 335-344. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll61401.

IN TEXT 

(Barchas and Looser 340).

 

WORKS CITED (THREE OR MORE AUTHORS)

Miano, Alice, et al. "Exploring the Effects of a Short-Term Spanish Immersion Program in a Postsecondary Setting." Foreign Language Annals, vol. 49, no. 2, summer 2016, pp. 287-301. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12194.

IN TEXT 

(Miano et al. 293).

NOTE: To standardize permalinks/URLS, omit http:// or https://. When the permalink/URL is more than three lines, truncate it to the host name (do not use a shortening service website such as bit.ly) (p. 195-196.)

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

(For more examples, see pages 138, 178, and 319-321 of the 9th edition)

[ MLA article with permalink ]

IN TEXT 

(Hlinak 22).

 
WORKS CITED (TWO AUTHORS)

Pierce, Jennifer B., and Micah Bateman. "Song of 2000 Whitman Lovers." Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 61, no. 17, Jan. 2015, pp. 10-12. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2015870518&site=eds-live&scope=site.

IN TEXT 

(Pierce and Bateman 10).

 

WORKS CITED (THREE OR MORE AUTHORS)

Sableski, Mary-Kate, et al. "Children's Literature and Classroom Communities: Helping Teachers and Students Navigate Traumatic Events." Journal of Children's Literature, vol. 47, no. 1, spring 2021, pp. 134-140. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eue&AN=149982986&site=eds-live&scope=site.

IN TEXT 

(Sableski et al. 135).

NOTE: To standardize permalinks/URLS, omit http:// or https://. When the permalink/URL is more than three lines, truncate it to the host name (do not use a shortening service website such as bit.ly) (p. 195-196.)

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

(For more examples, see pages 319-321 of the 9th edition)

                [ MLA article with URL ]

IN TEXT 

(Mejeur).

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

(For more examples, see pages 158, 164, and 319 of the 9th edition)

[ MLA article in print ]

IN TEXT 

(Franke 3).

Books

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

(For more examples, see pages 112, 135, and 313 in the ninth edition)

[ book example ]

IN TEXT 

(Nicolson 8).
 

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

Burnett, Mark T. Shakespeare and World Cinema. Cambridge UP, 2015.

IN TEXT 

(Burnett 98).

WORKS CITED (TWO AUTHORS)

Levy, Michael, and Farah Mendlesohn. Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2016.

IN TEXT

(Levy and Mendlesohn 62).
 

WORKS CITED (THREE OR MORE AUTHORS)

Morrow, Lesley M., et al. Oral Language and Comprehension in Preschool: Teaching the Essentials. Guilford

Press, 2016.

IN TEXT

(Morrow et al. 4).

WORKS CITED (ONE EDITOR):

(For more examples, see pages 108, 112, and 314 in the ninth edition)

[ example ]

IN TEXT 

(Bell 28).

WORKS CITED (TWO EDITORS):

Bolaki, Stella, and Sabine Broeck, editorsAudre Lorde's Transnational Legacies. U of Massachusetts P, 2015.

IN TEXT 

(Bolaki and Broeck 206). 

WORKS CITED (THREE OR MORE EDITORS):

Colbert, Soyica D., et al., editors. The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture. Rutgers UP, 2016.

   IN TEXT

(Colbert et al. 20).

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

(For more examples, see pages 133, 145, and 317 in the ninth edition)

[ MLA Citing Example for Book Chapter ]

IN TEXT

(Camacci 29).

WORKS CITED (MULTI VOLUME WORKS)

(For more examples, see pages 154, 215, and 316-317 in the ninth edition)

[ MLA Citing Example for Multivolume Works ]

IN TEXT 

(Rampersad 23).

eBooks

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

(For more examples, see pages 155, 217, and 324-325 in the ninth edition)

IN TEXT 

(Lewis ch. 1).

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

Wilt, Judith. Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot And Lawrence: Austen, Eliot And Lawrence. Princeton UP, 2014. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=nlebk&AN=791340&site=ehost-live&scope=site. 

IN TEXT 

(Wilt ch. 2).

WORKS CITED (ONE EDITOR)

(For more examples, see pages 155, 217, and 324-325 in the ninth edition)

 

IN TEXT 

(Waddell ch. 1).


WORKS CITED (TWO EDITORS)

Millington, Richard H., and Anne L. Kaufman, editors. Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century. U of Nebraska P, 2015. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=nlebk&AN=1016572&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

IN TEXT 

(Kaufman et al. ch. 2).

WORKS CITED (ONE AUTHOR)

(For more examples, see pages 203 and 324-325 in the ninth edition)

 

IN TEXT 

(Atkinson ch. 1).

WORKS CITED (TWO AUTHORS AND MORE THAN ONE EDITOR)

Courage, Fiona, and Jane Harvell. “Supporting Qualitative Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Using the Mass Observation Archive.” The future of Scholarly Communication, edited by Michael Jubb et al., Facet Publishing, 2013, ch. 11. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=nlebk&AN= 766204&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

IN TEXT 

(Courage and Harvell ch. 11).

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