Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. Pantheon, 1998.
Milkis, Sidney M., and Michael Nelson. The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776–1993. 2nd ed., CQ Press, 1994.
Boggs, Colleen Glenney. “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” American Periodicals, vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, pp. 149–66.
Dewar, James A., and Peng Hwa Ang. “The Cultural Consequences of Printing and the Internet.” Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron et al., U of Massachusetts P, 2007, pp. 365–77.
Give the name of the specific edition you are using, any editor(s) associated with it, followed by the publication information. Remember that your in-text citation should include the name of the specific edition of the Bible, followed by an abbreviation of the book, the chapter and verse(s): The New Jerusalem Bible. General editor, Henry Wansbrough, Doubleday, 1985.
O’Connor, Patricia. Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English. E-book ed., Riverhead Books, 2009.
Bockelman, Brian. “Buenos Aires Bohème: Argentina and the Transatlantic Bohemian Renaissance, 1890–1910.” Modernism/Modernity, vol. 23, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 37–63. Project Muse, https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2016.0011.
If at all possible, find and cite the original source directly. If you can't find the original source, cite the source that you found in your Works Cited list, and use "qtd. in" in your in-text citation to that source, like this:
Your text:
Samuel Johnson admitted that Edmund Burke was an “extraordinary man” (qtd. in Boswell 289).
Works Cited:
Boswell, James. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Edited by Augustine Birrell, vol. 3, Times Book Club, 1912. HathiTrust Digital Library, hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3123590.
For more details, see Section 6.77 of the MLA Handbook.
In-text citations:
Provide enough information to lead your reader directly to the source you used while disrupting the flow of your argument as little as possible. Generally the first author's last name followed by the page number is adequate i.e. (Baron 194).
Works Cited list:
If there are more than two authors, reverse the first of the names and follow it with a comma and et al. (Latin for "and others") in place of the subsequent authors' names.
Burdick, Anne, et al. Digital_Humanities. MIT P, 2012.