Citation Guide: How to cite BOOKS, eBOOKS, CHAPTERS

 MLA Book Citation

• Examples are not double-spaced, but your Works Cited list should be double-spaced.
• Examples do not show indented lines after the first line, but yours should be indented.

Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. edition, City of Publication, Publisher, Year. 

*Note: Only list the city of publication if the book was published before 1900, if the publisher has offices in more than one country, or if the publisher is unknown in North America.

Examples:
Ermann, M. David, Mary B. Williams, and Michael S. Shauf, eds. Computers, Ethics, and Society. New York, Oxford UP, 1997. 

Odell, Lee, et al. Elements of Language. Holt, 2001.  

Sternberg, Elaine. Just Business: Business Ethics in Action. 2nd ed., New York, Oxford UP, 2000.  

Utah Association of Counties. Utah County Facts Book. Utah Association of Counties, 1981.  

MLA E-Book Citation

• Examples are not double-spaced, but your Works Cited list should be double-spaced. 
• Examples do not show indented lines after the first line, but yours should be indented.
• IMPORTANT NOTE:  MLA makes a distinction between online books and E-books, and each is cited slightly differently...  
  • Online book: a book with a URL that you can access on a website or database like EBSCOhost E-books, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center, Project Gutenberg, Google Books, etc.

Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Edition, Publisher, Publication Year. Name of Website or Database, URL or DOI. 

• • E-book: "a book that lacks a URL and that you use software to read on a personal device or computer" (MLA Style Center FAQ); includes Kindle, EPUB, Nook editions.

Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Edition/Version, Publisher, Publication Year. 

ONLINE BOOK Example:

Fang, Wei-Ta. The Living Environmental Education: Sound Science toward a Cleaner, Safer, and Healthier Future. Singapore, Springer Nature, 2023. OhioLINK EJC, doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4234-1

E-BOOK Example:

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Kindle ed., Grapevine, 2019. 

 MLA Chapter or Authored Section of an Edited Book/E-book Citation

• Examples are not double-spaced, but your Works Cited list should be double-spaced.
• Examples do not show indented lines after the first line, but yours should be indented.

Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. "Title of Article." Title of Book: Subtitle of Book, edited by Editor's first name last name, Publication City, Publisher, Year, page range of chapter. 

Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. "Title of Article." Title of Book: Subtitle of Book, edited by Editor's first name last name, E-book, Publication City, Publisher, Year, Page range. Web. Date of access.

Examples:
Grealy, Lucy. "Fear Itself." The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose, edited by Tammy Roberts, et al., Peterborough, Broadview, 2002, pp. 450-61.

Meiland, Jack. "The Difference Between High School and College." You Are Here: Readings on Higher Education for College Writers, edited by Russell K. Durst, E-book, Prentice, 2003, pp. 104-14.