MLA 7 Visual Guide - Books
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This document provides instructions for citing books in MLA format. It explains that a print book citation includes the author's name, book title, city of publication, publisher, and year published. An ebook citation includes the author, title, edition, volume, city, publisher, and year. It also provides an example of citing a book found through an online database, which includes the date accessed in addition to bibliographic information.
MLA 7 Visual Guide - Books
- 1. Automatically Cite Your Sources For Free at www.easybib.com Citing a Book (MLA) Book: Written work or composition that has been published in print. Structure: Last, First M. Book title. City of Publication: Publisher, Year Published. Print. Citation: James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Rockville: Serenity, 2009. Print. Title Page Much of the information you need to create a print book citation can be found on the title page. The title page is found within the first couple of pages of the book. Book Title Author Publish er Publishe r City Year of Publicati on Citing a book in print *Note: MLA7 does not require the publisher’s state in a book citation.
- 2. Automatically Cite Your Sources For Free at www.easybib.com Citing a Book (MLA) Citing an ebook *Some ebooks may be available for download through your library. eBook: Written work or composition that has been digitized and is readable through computers or e-readers (Kindles, iPads, nooks etc.). Structure: Last, First M. Book title. Edition. Volume. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Series. Medium.*Note: MLA7 does not require the publisher’s state in an ebook citation. If the edition, volume or series is not available, leave it out. Book Title Auth or Publish er Publishe r City Year of Publicati on Structure: Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Mineola: Dover Publications, 2000. Kindle Edition.
- 3. Automatically Cite Your Sources For Free at www.easybib.com Citing a Book (MLA) Date Accessed: This is the day that the article was found and read. Structure: Last, First M. Book title. City: Publisher, Year published. Database Name. Web. Date Month Year Accessed. Citation: Lichter, S. Robert, and Stanley Rothman. Environmental Cancer—A Political Disease? New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1999. eBook Collection. Web. 1 Apr. 2013. Citing a book found in a database* *Some ebooks may be available online through your library’s databases. Database Name Some bibliographic data will be found on the database. Additional data will be found on the title page of the ebook. Book: Written work or composition that has been published (typically found in print).