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HUST 323: Ancient and Medieval Literature

Works Cited List: Print Sources

Book:

Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. Pantheon, 1998.

Book with two authors:

Milkis, Sidney M., and Michael Nelson. The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776–1993. 2nd ed., CQ Press, 1994.

Article:

Boggs, Colleen Glenney. “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” American Periodicals, vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, pp. 149–66.

Essay in a collection:

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.

Biblical citation:

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.

Works Cited List: Electronic Sources

Ebook:

O’Connor, Patricia. Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English. E-book ed., Riverhead Books, 2009.

Article:

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 your article doesn't have a DOI, use a permalink URL instead. If you downloaded a PDF of the article, also include "PDF download." after the DOI or URL.

Indirect or Secondary Sources (Source quoted in another source)

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

  • Include the author's last name with the page number, e.g., (Wordsworth 586). If you use the author's name in the sentence, only the page number is necessary, "Wordsworth wrote... (586)."
  • If there is no author, use the first element of the citation (usually the title, or a shortened version of the title) and the page number, for example: (Afro-American Poetry 79).
  • For biblical citations, specify which version or translation you are using in your first parenthetical citation, (and italicize the title), followed by the book (do not italicize), chapter and verse, (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10). If future references use the same edition of the Bible you’re using, only include the book, chapter, and verse in the parenthetical citation.

More than two authors?

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.