Edited book
Format for in-text citation
Elements, punctuation & capitalisation
For the in-text citation, provide the author's surname followed by the page(s) cited, so long as the page numbering system appears consistently to other users.
In-text citation example
…Beckman and Ma (38) suggest that…
OR
…this theory was disproved (Beckman and Ma 38).
Format for reference list
Elements, punctuation & capitalisation
Name(s) of the editor(s), editor(s). Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Reference List example
Beckman, Karen Redrobe, and Jean Ma, editors. Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography. Duke UP, 2008.
Style notes for this reference type
Elements of citation:
- Name(s) of the editor(s).
- Editor(s) – descriptive label.
- Title of book (italicised).
- Publisher’s name,
- Year of publication.
For further examples see Appendix Two of MLA Handbook.
See Handbook
- If the source is an edited volume, the “author” for your purposes is the person who assembled the volume – its editor. The name is followed by a descriptive label (editor). A source with multiple editors is cited using the same format as is used for multiple authors, followed by the descriptive label plural (editors) (5.3).
- Page numbers in the works-cited list (but not in in-text citations) are now preceded by p. or pp. (5.90; 6.16).
- For books, the city of publication is no longer given, except in special situations (5.67).
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