3. MLA BIBLIOGRAPHIES MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS Fourth Edition

[MLA 4.6.1] BOOKS:

Books should be listed in alphabetical order by last name of author.  Bibliography should be called "Bibliography".

This is the order in which the information is normally arranged:

1. Author’s name

2. Title of a part of the book (see 4.6.7-9)

3. Title of the book

4. Name of the editor, translator, or compiler (see 4.6.7 AND 4.6.12-13)

5. Edition used (see 4.6.14)

6. Number(s) of the volume(s) used (4.6.15)

7. Name of the series (4.6.16)

8. Place of publication , name of publisher, and date of publication

9. Page numbers (4.6.7)

10. Supplementary bibliographic information and annotation (see 4.6.13 and 4.6.15)

Bowie, Fiona and Oliver Davies, eds. Hildegard of Bingen: An Anthology. Translated by Robert Carver. London: Holy Trinity Church, 1990.

Newman, Barbara. Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard’s Theology of the Feminine. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1987.

You may use a variation on this and place the date after the author’s name instead of after the publication information.

Bowie, Fiona and Oliver Davies, eds. (1990) Hildegard of Bingen: An Anthology. Translated by Robert Carver. London: Holy Trinity Church.

Newman, Barbara. (1987) Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard’s Theology of the Feminine. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

[MLA 4.6.7] ANTHOLOGIES:

Examples of how to site works in anthologies:

Calvino, Italo. "Cybernetics and Ghosts." The Uses of Literature: Essays. Trans. Patrick Creagh. San Diego: Harcourt, 1982. 3-27.

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.

Hanzlik, Josef. "Vengeance." Trans. Ewald Osers. Interference: The Sotry of Czechoslovakia in the Words of Its Writers. Comp. And ed. Peter Spafford. Cheltenham: New Clarion, 1992. 54.

Sastre, Alfonso. Sad Are the Eyes of William Tell. Trans. Leonard Pronko. The New Weave of Spanish Drama. Ed. George Wellwarth. New York: New York UP, 1970. 165-321.

[MLA 4.6.8] REFERENCE BOOKS:

When citing reference books, especially those that have appeared in only one edition, give full publication information.

Brakeley, Theresa C. "Mourning Songs." Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend. Ed. Maria Leach and Jerome Fried. 2 vols. New York: Crowell, 1950.

Trainen, Issac N., et al. "Religious Directives in Medical Ethics." Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Warren T. Reich. 4 vols. New York: Free, 1978.

[MLA 4.7.1] PERIODICALS:

1. Again list by author (last name first, first name.)

2. Title of article in quotes, followed by a comma

3. Publication information Name of Periodical

4. Volume number. Number number.

5. Year in parentheses:

6. Pages of article.

Author’s last name, first name. "Title of the article," publication information.

For example:

Story, Ann. "A Theophany of the Feminine: Hildegard of Bingen, Elizabeth of Schönau, and Herrard of Landsberg," Woman’s Art Journal 19.1 (Spring Summer 1998): 16-20.