Mla Citation Book Three Authors

Book with more than three authors 155 156 the general format below refers to a book with more than three authors.

Mla citation book three authors. Book with two authors. Book with three or more authors. Last first and first last.

Books multiple authors books with editors translators etc. Explain that text of quotation 245. Mla style 8th edition.

Follow the name with the abbreviation et al and the page number where the material you paraphrased or cited appears. Watson john et al title of the chapter. Mla 8th edition has simplified the rule for citing multiple authors.

Book with two or three authors 154 the general format and example below refer to a book with two authors. For three or more authors list the first name followed by et al. Mla modern language association style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities.

If your source has 3 or more authors it is only necessary to include the last name of the first author who is also listed in your works cited entry. If you are dealing with two editors instead of two authors insert the names of the editors into the place where the authors names are now followed by a comma and the word eds without the quotation marks. For two authors reverse only the first name followed by and and the second name in normal order e.

This resource updated to reflect the mla handbook 8 th ed offers examples for the general format of mla research papers in text citations endnotes footnotes and the works cited page. King stephen and peter straub. Three or more authors are all treat the same way using the words et al.