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MLA Citation Guide

This guide will help you understand how to use the MLA citation format for both in-text citations and works cited lists. It includes some more commonly used source formats. For complete information, please consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research.

Citing Electronic Books

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Online Subscription Database or Free Online Book Collection

E-Reader

Cite electronic books the same way that you cite print books, except that you must include the electronic "container," (i.e., the database, or the source where your eBook is located. This could be, for example, HathiTrust or Project Gutenberg).

Online Subscription Database or Free Online Book Collection

Basic Format

Author(s) (last name, first name). Title (italicized). Publisher, Date. Title of the Database, URL. (add URL only if the

link is stable--sometimes called "persistent link" or "permalink"

 

What do citations look like?

Vanhoutte, Edward, Julianne Nyhan. and Melissa M. Terras. Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader. Routledge,

2013. ebook Collection EBSCOhost, http://library.hofstra.edu/record=b2569190~S1.

 

Katz, Friedrich. The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Stanford UP, 1998. ACLS Humanities EBook,

hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00059.0001.001.

 

Rasnom, John Crowe. Poems About God. Henry Holt, 1919. HathiTrust Digital Library, hdl.handle.net

/2027/nc01.ark:/13960/t9d51qz1t.

E-Reader

Basic Format

Author(s) (last name, first name). Title (italicized). Name of E-Reader, Publisher, Date.

 

What does a citation look like?

Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. Kindle ed., Doubleday, 2016.