MLA formatting for a book
The nitty-gritty of what goes into an MLA book citation is:
Author name
Editor name
Title
Page numbers
Publisher – if you can’t find a publisher, put n.p. for no publisher
Place of publication – the name of the city on the title page. If there are two, use the first
one. Add the state or country if it’s an obscure part of the world, i.e. Blue Ball,
Pa. Can’t figure out where it was published, n.p. now stands for no place
Publication year – the book showed up and no one knows when, insert n.d. for,
you guessed it, no date.
Edition
Volume number
How these facts are presented vary from style to style. And that’s the beauty of carmun. Enter the data, choose the style, and it formats for you. What could be better – except for maybe a due-date extension?
Here’s an example of a book an MLA bibliography.
Jaffe, Mark. The Gilded Dinosaur: The Fossil War Between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the Rise of American Science. New York: Crown Publishers, 2000.
It’s great that you can recognize an MLA citation. No need to ever compose one yourself. Let carmun do it.
