On your Works Cited page, list all your sources alphabetically by author name, according to the pattern shown here. Use a hanging indent!
Book with one author:
Everett, Daniel L. Language: The Cultural Tool. Pantheon Books, 2012.
Book with two authors:
Lukianoff, Greg, and Jonathan Haidt. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. Penguin Press, 2018.
Book with three or more authors:
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State UP, 2004.
Book with no author:
Encyclopedia of Indiana. Somerset, 1993.
Book that is one volume in a set:
Sturtevant, William C. Handbook of the North American Indians, vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution, 1978, pp. 79-80
Book with editor(s):
O'Hear, Anthony, and Marc Sidwell, editors. The School of Freedom: A Liberal Education Reader from Plato to the Present Day. Imprint Academic, 2009.
Book with translator:
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Provincial Ways. Translated by Lydia Davis. New York: Viking, 2010.
Ebook from a database:
Schuler, Douglas. Liberating Voices : A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution. The MIT Press, 2008. EBSCOhost, butte.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=254030&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
One selection (chapter, article, or poem) in a book:
Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One, edited by Ben Rafoth, Heinemann, 2000, pp. 24-34.
Burns, Robert. "Red, Red Rose." 100 Best-Loved Poems, edited by Philip Smith, Dover, 1995, p. 26.
MLA Handbook by Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) has an excellent online style guide. Take a look for more help!
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