How to cite an academic article or book chapter in MLA
form for a Works Cited bibliography
Formula for an article:
Last name, First Name. “ Title of
Article.” Name of Journal
Italicized Volume number. Issue number
if given (year): inclusive pages.
Thus, with the punctuation
highlighted in blue:
Nickel, Terri. "Pamela as Fetish: Masculine Anxiety in Henry
Fielding's Shamela and James Parry's The True Anti-Pamela." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
22 (1992): 37-49.
Note hanging indent of 2nd and subsequent lines. First
line is flush left.
Note that any novel title is in italics within the quotation marks
for the article title.
There is no punctuation between the journal title and the volume
number.
Any works cited entry ends in a final period.
If the article is in an online periodical: replicate the
complete print entry formula, but then 1) if the online version has page
numbers, after the inclusive page numbers and period put the name of the hosting
site, in italics (e.g. Project Muse,
or JSTOR), then a period, then the
date you accessed it, then the full url (universal resource locator) within
angle brackets < >, with a period
after the close bracket. 2) if the
online version doesn’t have page numbers, after the publication year closed
parenthesis and period then put the hosting site and url as above.
Hence:
Tolson, Nancy.
“Making Books Available: The Role of Early Libraries, Librarians, and
Booksellers in the Promotion of African American Children’s Literature.” African American Review 32 (1998): 9-16.
JSTOR. 3 April 2008
<http:/www.jstor.org.serach>.
A book chapter, formula:
Author last name,
First name. “Title of Chapter.” Title of Book in Italics. Place of publication: Press, year. Inclusive
pages of chapter.
Hence:
Spencer, Jane. “Wit’s
Mild Empire: the Rise of Women’s Writing.” The
Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen.
If it’s a collection of edited essays, after the essay
title’s period put title of collection; then after title of collection put Ed.
then Editor’s full name. The place of publication, press, date, inclusive
pages.
Grundy, Isobel. "Against Beauty:
Eighteenth-Century Fiction Writers Confront the Problem of Woman-as-Sign." ReImagining Women: Representations
of Women in Culture. Ed. Shirley
Neuman and Glennis Stephenson.