More MLA and In-Text Citation Examples

Use this handout in conjunction with the “Works Cited in MLA: 1301” and “Works Cited in MLA: 1302” handouts. For convenience, each example below includes a corresponding in-text citation as if quoted from the source.

Printed and Online Book and Anthology Examples

1. Organization or Company as Author

Works Cited:
Human Rights Watch. World Report 2015: Events of 2014. Seven Stories Press, 2015.

In-text citation: (World Report 85)

2. Book with Editors

Works Cited:
Horner, Avril, and Anne Rowe, editors. Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934–1995. Princeton UP, 2016.

In-text citation: (Horner and Rowe 386)

3. Translation

Works Cited:
Ullman, Regina. The Country Road: Stories. Translated by Kurt Beals, New Directions Publishing, 2015.

In-text citation: (Ullman 386–387)

Works Cited:
Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard UP, 2014. Google Books, books.google.com/books?isbn=0674369556.

In-text citation: (Piketty)

4. Edition Other Than the First

Works Cited:
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 3rd ed., U of Minnesota P, 2008.

In-text citation: (Eagleton 386)

5. E-Book

Works Cited:
Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See. Nook ed., Scribner, 2014.

In-text citation: (Doerr 48)

No page number: (Doerr)

6. Entire Anthology

Works Cited:
Marcus, Ben, editor. New American Stories. Vintage Books, 2015.

In-text citation: (Marcus 386)

7. Book in a Database

Works Cited:
Hall, Kimberly, editor. Construction Projects: Improvement Strategies, Quality Management and Potential Challenges. Nova Science Publishers, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/butlercc/detail.action?docID=4789267.

In-text citation: (Hall 30)

8. One Selection from an Anthology

Works Cited:
Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. “Paranoia.” New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus, Vintage Books, 2015, pp. 3–29.

In-text citation: (Sayrafiezadeh 27)

9. Sacred Text

Works Cited:
The Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha. Edited by Herbert G. May and Bruce M. Metzger, Revised Standard Version, Oxford UP, 1965.

In-text citation: (Oxford Annotated Bible, Prov. 25.21)

Printed and Online Magazine, Journal, and Newspaper Examples

10. Magazine Article

Works Cited:
Bryan, Christy. “Ivory Worship.” National Geographic, Oct. 2012, pp. 28–61.

In-text citation: (Bryan 35)

11. Journal Article

Works Cited:
Matchie, Thomas. “Law versus Love in The Round House.” Midwest Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 4, Summer 2015, pp. 353–64.

In-text citation: (Matchie 360–62)

12. Newspaper Article

Works Cited:
Bray, Hiawatha. “As Toys Get Smarter, Privacy Issues Emerge.” The Boston Globe, 10 Dec. 2015, p. C1.

In-text citation: (Bray C1)

Digital, Media, and Other Source Types

Social Media Post

Works Cited:
Curiosity Rover. “Can you see me waving? How to spot #Mars in the night sky.” Twitter, 5 Nov. 2015, twitter.com/marscuriosity/status/672859022911889408.

In-text citation: (Curiosity Rover)

YouTube Video

Works Cited:
McGonigal, Jane. “Gaming and Productivity.” YouTube, uploaded by Big Think, 3 July 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdzy9bWW3E.

In-text citation: (McGonigal 00:01:15–50)

Film

Works Cited:
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Fox Searchlight, 2014.

In-text citation: (Iñárritu 00:35:40–47)

Podcast Episode

Works Cited:
“The Cathedral.” Reply All, narrated by Sruthi Pinnamaneni, episode 50, Gimlet Media, 7 Jan. 2016, gimletmedia.com/episode/50-the-cathedral.

In-text citation: (“Cathedral” 00:15:10–18)

Music (Streaming)

Works Cited:
Morris, Rae. “Skin.” Cold, Atlantic Records, 2014. Spotify, open.spotify.com/track/oOPES3Tw5r8606fudK8gxi.

In-text citation: (Morris 00:06:18–25)