Book with one author
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication, Publisher, Publication Date.
| Citation | Works Cited |
| (Clear 22) | Clear, James. Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Habits and Break Bad Ones. Penguin Random House, 2018, p. 22. |
Book with two authors
First author in last name, first name format; subsequent authors in normal order.
| Citation | Works Cited |
| (Bingham and Pink 34) | Bingham, Tony, and Daniel Pink. The New Social Learning: Connect. Collaborate. Work. ASTD Press, 2015. |
Book with three or more authors
| Citation | Works Cited |
| (Bolivar et al. 55-67) | Bolivar, Simon, et al. The Bolivarian Revolution. Verso, 2009. |
Article / Book Chapter in an Edited Book
| Citation | Works Cited |
| (Baer 53) | Baer, Andrea. "What Intellectual Empathy Can Offer Information Literacy Education." Informed Societies: Why Information Literacy Matters for Citizenship, Participation, and Democracy, edited by Stephane Goldstein, Facet Publishing, 2020. |
The MLA Formatting and Style Guide from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers formatting guidelines and examples of in-text citations.
Some basic rules: