The 8th edition of the MLA Handbook lists nine core elements needed to create a citation:
(pay attention to the order and punctuation!)
Notes:
How to Cite in Your Works Cited Page
General Format (remember to format with a hanging indent!)
Author Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial. Title of source. Title of container, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location.
*Tip: If you tried to find a piece of information and you cannot find it (for example other contributors, version, or number) then skip over that part
*Tip: Make sure that your Works Cited list is formatted with Hanging Indents
Examples:
Tan, Amy. The Bonesetter's Daughter. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.
Homer, and Bernard Knox. "Athena Inspires the Prince". The Odyssey, Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996, pp.77-92.
Woolf, Virginia. "Professions for Women". The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, 3rd ed., vol. 2, W.W. Norton & Company, 2007, pp. 244-247.
Bloom, Jonathan, and Sheila Blair. Islam: a thousand years of faith and power. Yale Nota Bene, 2002.
Walker, Ian, and John Moncure Daniel. “Chapter 48: [John Moncure Daniel], Introduction to ‘The Raven’ in the Richmond Examiner.” Edgar Allan Poe, Taylor & Francis Ltd / Books, 1997, pp. 145–147. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=17104241&site=ehost-live.
Knight, Denise D. "The Dying of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture, vol. 13, no. 2, 1999, p. 137. Literature Resource Center, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A55266783/LitRC?u=pemb33391&sid=LitRC&xid=824a0ea8. Accessed 19 Nov. 2019.
Sumner, Rachel, Maclen J. Stanley, and Anthony L. Burrow. "Room for Debate (and Derogation): Negativity of Readers’ Comments on Black Authors’ Online Content." Psychology of Popular Media Culture, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 113-122. ProQuest, http://ez-srv.rcbc.edu:2048/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1694706865?accountid=9798, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000090.
"Walt Whitman." Edited by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M Price, The Walt Whitman Archive, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, https://whitman-prod.unl.edu/biography/walt_whitman/.
Research assistance - help finding sources, evaluating sources
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