• BOOKS:

Single author: Mumford, Lewis. The Culture of Cities. New York: Harcourt, 1938.  Print.

Two or three authors: Francis, R. Douglas, Richard Jones, and Donald B. Smith.            

More than three authors: Baldwin, Richard et al. Economic Geography and Public   Policy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003. Print.

Two or more books by the same author: Replace the author's name by three        hyphens and arrange alphabetically by the book's title:

 Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Viking, 1985. Print.

 ---. The Disappearance of Childhood. New York: Vintage, 1994. Print.

Anthology compilation: Abate, Corinne S., ed. Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Print.

Work in an anthology or an essay in a book: Naremore, James. "Hitchcock at the Margins of Noir." Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays. Ed. Richard Allen and S. Ishii-Gonzalès. London: BFI, 1999. 263-77. Print.

Book by a corporate author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Action against Climate Change: The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond. Paris: OECD, 1999. Print.

Book in a series: Bloom, Harold, ed. André Malraux. New York: Chelsea House, 1988. Print. Modern Critical Views.

 

• ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

Article in a reference book or an entry in an encyclopedia: If the article/entry is signed, include the author's name; if unsigned, begin with the title of the entry. Guignon, Charles B. "Existentialism." Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. 10 vols. London: Routledge, 1998. Print.

Article reprinted in a reference book on line: Carlson, Eric W. “The Range of Symbolism in Poetry.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 48.3 (1949): 442-52. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Ed. Jane Kelly Kosek and Christine Slovey. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale, 1995. 83-84. Literature Criticism Online. Web. 18 Oct. 2009.

 

• TRANSLATIONS:

A translation: Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis. Trans. and Ed. Stanley Corngold. New York: Bantam, 1972. Print.

 

• GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS:

A government publication: Canada. Dept. of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Freedom from Fear: Canada's Foreign Policy for Human Security. Ottawa: DFAIT, 2002. Print.

 

• ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS:

Article retrieved in print/paper format: Ferrer, Ada. "Cuba 1898: Rethinking Race, Nation, and Empire." Radical History Review 73 (1999): 22-49. Print.

Article retrieved on the Web: Sehmby, Dalbir S. "Wrestling and Popular Culture." CCLWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.1 (2002): n. pag. Web. 29 Mar. 2009.

Article retrieved in a library database: Brennan, Katherine Stern. "Culture in the Cities: Provincial Academies during the Early Years of Louis XIV's Reign." Canadian Journal of History 38.1 (2003): 19-42. CBCA Complete. Web. 29 Mar. 2004.

Article in a newspaper or magazine: Semenak, Susan. "Feeling Right at Home: Government Residence Eschews Traditional Rules." Montreal Gazette 28 Dec. 1995, Final Ed.: A4. Print.

 

• AN ENTIRE WEB SITE:

With author: Linder, Douglas O. Famous Trials. Univ. of Missouri Kansas-City Law School, 2009. Web. 29 Apr. 2009.

A page on a web site: "Joyce Wieland." Celebrating Women's Achievements: Women Artists in Canada. National Library of Canada, 2000. Web. 29 Mar. 2004.

 

• AUDIOVISUAL SOURCES:

Television or radio program: "Scandal of the Century." Narr. Linden MacIntyre. The Fifth Estate. CBC Television. 23 Jan. 2002. Television.

Sound recording: Ellington, Duke. "Black and Tan Fantasy." Music is My Mistress. Musicmasters, 1989. CD.

Film video recording or DVD: The Shining. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Perf. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall. Warner Bros., 1980. Videocassette.

 

Source: MLA citation style, Concordia University Library, 2009. Web, 28 Oct. 2011 .