This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford UP, 2011.
Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Circa 1400-10, British Library, London, Harley MS 7334.
Gao Xingjian. Soul Mountain. 1st Perennial edition, Perennial, 2001.
Dorris, Michael, and Louise Erdrich. The Crown of Columbus. HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.
Holland, Merlin, and Rubert Hart-Davis, editors. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Henry Holt, 2000.
Titon, Jeff Todd, and Bob Carlin, editors. American Musical Traditions. Vol. 2, Schirmer Reference, 2002. 5 vols.
Burdick, Anne, et al. Digital Humanities. MIT P, 2012.
Baron, Sabrina Alcorn, et al., editors. Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Einstein. U of Massachusetts P / Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 2007.
United Nations. Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries. Taylor and Francis, 1991.
Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America. National Endowment for the Arts, June 2004.
The Generous Rivals: Or, Love Triumphant. Introduction for the Garland edition by Malcolm J. Bosse, Garland Publishing, 1973.
The Way of a Pilgrim, and The Pilgrim Continues His Way. Translated from the Russian by R. M. French, Harper, 1954.
Franklin, Benjamin. "Emigration to America." 1782. The Faber Book of America, edited by Christopher Ricks and William L. Vance, Faber and Faber, 1992, pp. 24-26..
Newcomb, Horace, editor. Television: The Critical View. 1976. 7th ed., Oxford UP, 2007.
Pevear, Richard, and Larissa Volokhonsky, translators. Crime and Punishment. By Feodor Dostoevsky, Vintage eBooks, 1993.
Sobchack, Julie Boyden, translator. Beowulf, a Pagan Hero: A Modern Poetic Translation. Algora Publishing, 2014.
Kuhnheim, Jill S. "Cultures of the Lyric and Lyrical Culture: Teaching Poetry and Cultural Studies." Cultural Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America, Edited by Danny J. Anderson and Kuhnheim, MLA, 2003, pp. 105-22. Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Neruda, Pablo. Canto General. Translated by Jack Schmitt, U of California P, 1991. Latin American Literature and Culture 7.
Dewar, James A., and Peng Hwa Ang. “The Cultural Consequences of Printing and the Internet.” Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron et al., U of Massachusetts P / Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 2007, pp. 365-77.
Euripides. The Trojan Women. Ten Plays, translated by Paul Roche, New American Library, 1998, pp. 457-512.
Johnson, Barbara. "My Monster / My Self." The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness, edited by Melissa Feuerstein et al. Duke UP, 2014, pp. 179-90. Originally published in Diacritics, vol. 12, no. 2, 1982, pp. 2-10.
Cheyfitz, Eric. The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan. Expanded ed, U of Pennsylvania P, 1997.
The Bible. Authorized King James Version, Oxford UP, 1998.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Deidre Shauna Lynch, Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed., W.W. Norton, 2009.
Felstiner, John. Preface. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. by Paul Celan, translated by Felstiner, W.W. Norton, 2001, pp. xix-xxxvi.
Wallach, Rick. "Cormac McCarthy's Canon as Accidental Artifact." Introduction. Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy, edited by Wallach, Manchester UP, 2000, pp. xiv-xvi.
Shklovskii, Viktor. O teorii prozy [On the Theory of Prose]. 2nd reprint, 1929, Ardis Publishers, 1985.
Shklovskii, Viktor. О теории прозы [On the Theory of Prose]. 2nd reprint, 1929, Ardis Publishers, 1985.
Rome, Richard. The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome. 3 vols. London, 1873.
Dewey, John. The School and Society. Chicago, 1899.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.. Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret. Translated by John Oxenford, new ed., London, 1975.
Baron, Naomi S. “Redefining Reading: The Impact of Digital Communication Media.” PMLA, vol. 128, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 193-200.
Deresiewicz, William. "The Death of the Artist--and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur." The Atlantic, Jan.-Feb. 2015, pp. 92-97.
Benton, Thomas H. (William Pannapacker). "The Professor as Pitchman" Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 54, no. 38, 30 May 2008, p. C1
Williams, Joy. "Rogue Territory." The New York Times Book Review, 9 Nov. 2014, pp. 1+.
Martin, Susan K., and Kylie Mirmohamadi. "Harry Potter's Secret: The Rise of Publishing Sensations from Mary Braddon to J. K. Rowling." English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 95, no.2, Mar. 2014, pp. 131-148. doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2014.882126.
García-Guerrero, Jair, and Graciela Martínez Tamez. "Presencia de la medicina en las novelas del mago Harry Potter." Medicina Universitaria, vol. 9.no. 34, ene.-mar. 2007, pp. 42-46.
Collier, Noelle R., et al. "Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess: Reception of the Texts by a Sample of Lesbian Fans and Web Site Users." Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 56, no. 5, Jul. 2009, pp. 575-609. doi: 10.1080/00918360903005253
Hsu, Chun-Ting, et al. "The Magical Activation of Left Amygdala When Reading Harry Potter: An fMRI Study on How Descriptions of Supra-Natural Events Entertain and Enchant." PLoS ONE, vol. 10 no. 2, Feb. 2015, pp.1-15. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118179
"The Film Set as Creative Source: How the Set of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Has Directly Inspired the Consumer Products Programme." License! Europe, Oct. 2006, pp. 36+.
"10 Questions." Time, vol. 176. no. 22, 29 Nov. 2010. p. 8.
Goldman, Anne. "Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante." The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188.
Wadley, Carma "Children's Lit: Since 1938, Women's Reading Group has Focused on Books Written for Kids." Deseret Morning News [Salt Lake City], 21 Mar. 2005. LexisNexis Academic.