Author's name.  "Title of a part of the book (e.g. essay, chapter, etc.), if applicable."  Title of the book. 

Name of the editor, etc. if applicable.  Place of publication:  Name of the publisher, date of

publication.  Page numbers, if applicable.

Book by a single author (MLA 5.6.1)

Stokesbury, James L.  A Short History of World War I.  New York:  Macmillan, 1984.
 

Book with editor only (MLA 5.6.2)

Feldman, Paula R., ed.  British Women Poets of the Romantic Era.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.

Francisco, Edward, Robert Vaughan, and Linda Francisco, comp.  The South in Perspective:  An Anthology of

Southern Literature.  Princeton:  Princeton UP, 1975.

Beriant, Lauren.  "Race, Gender and the Nation in The Color Purple." Alice Walker:  Critical Perspectives

Past and Present.  Ed. Henry Louis Gates and K.A. Appiah.  New York:  Amistad, 1993.  211-38.

Hansberry, Lorraine.  A Raisin in the Sun.  Black Theater: A Twentieth-Century Collection of the Work of Its

Best Playwrights. Ed. Lindsay Patterson.  New York:  Dodd, 1971.  221-76.

Poe, Edgar Allan.  "The City in the Sea."  Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.  Comp.  Dwight Macdonald.  New York: 

Crowell, 1965.  51-52.

Gard, Roger.  "Questioning the Merit of Pride and Prejudice." Jane Austen's Novels:  The Art of Clarity.  New

Haven: Yale UP, 1992.  Rpt. in Readings on Pride and Prejudice.  Ed. Clarice Swisher.  San Diego: 

Greenhaven, 2000. 111-17. 

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar.  The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.  New York: 

Norton, 1985.

Gilman, Sander, Helen King, Roy Porter, George Rousseau, and Elaine Showalter. Hysteria beyond Freud. 

Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.

         Or

Gilman, Sander, et al.  Hysteria beyond Freud.  Berkeley:  U of California P, 1993.
 

" ' A Rose for Emily':  Critical Overview."  Short Stories for Students.  Ed. Tim Akers.  Vol. 6.  Detroit:  Gale,

1999.  256.  

Hermanson, Casie.  "The Great Gatsby:  Criticism." Novels for Students.  Ed. Diane Telgen.  Vol. 2.  Detroit:

Gale, 1997.  77-79.

Burdick, Michael L.  "Another View of Faulkner's Narrator in 'A Rose for Emily.' "  The University of Mississippi

Studies in English 8 (1990):  209-11.  Rpt. in Short Stories for Students.  Ed. Tim Akers.  Vol. 6. 

Detroit:  Gale, 1999.  260-61.  

Walton, Eda Lou.  "Nothing New Under the Sun."  New Masses 43:11 (1942):  23.  Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. 

Ed. Robyn V. Young.  Vol. 1.  Detroit:  Gale, 1991.  239.

Photograph of a painting or sculpture (MLA 5.8.6)

Cassett, Mary. Mother and Child. Wichita Art Museum.  American Painting: 1560-1913. By John Pearce.

New York: McGraw, 1964.  274.            

Grice, Maureen.  "Macbeth:  Stage History:  America." The Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. 

Ed. Oscar James Campbell.  New York:  Crowell, 1966.  488-489.

"Romanticism."  Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia.  Ed. Bruce Murphy, 4th ed.  New York:  Harper,

1996.  

Scholarly Journal (MLA 5.7.2)

McNeilly, Kevin. "Home Economics." Canadian Literature 16.2 (2000): 5-16.

Magazine Article (MLA 5.7.6)

Weintraub, Arlene, and Laura Cohen. "A Thousand-Year Plan for Nuclear Waste." Business Week 6

May 2002:94-96.

See MLA 6th edition 5.6.2-5.6.15 and 5.7.2-5.7.6

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