Bibliography Guide > How to write a bibliography in MLA? > An encyclopedia in an MLA citation format
The MLA format of an encyclopedia article.
This type of citation is much like a book with a couple of additions.
Author (person or institute)
Editor
Article title
Encyclopedia’s name
Page numbers
Publisher
Place of publications
Publication year
Edition
Volume number
It would look like this, on an MLA works cited page.
Columbia University. "Human Genome Project." The Columbia Encyclopedia. Sixth. New York: Columbia University Press 2004. 22847.
Since this is a monster of an encyclopedia, we’re talking 52,000 pages in a single volume at a cost most of us can’t afford, chances are you picked up the article online at a site like questia.com. Carmun lets you add that to the citation.
It’s great you can now recognize an MLA citation. No need to ever compose one yourself. Let carmun do it.
