Anatolia College Libraries: Citation Guide MLA: Books &amp; eBooks

Books - Basic format

Examples:

Kendi, Ibrarm X. How to be an antiracist. The Bodley Head, 2019.

Examples:

Greene, Graham. The end of the affair. Penguin Books, 1975. Open Library, https://openlibrary.org/works/OL106073W/The_end_of_the_affair.

Padallan, Jocelyn O. Internet & Distributed Systems. Arcler Press, 2019. EBSCOhost, http://search.ebscohost.com/.

Example:

Faron, Louis C. "Inca." Encyclopaedia Americana. International Edition. 1999.

«Ρομποτικός» Γ. Μπαμπινιώτη Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας. 2η έκδοση, 2002.

Example:

"Incas." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 28 Mar. 2015. school.eb.co.uk/levels/intermediate/article/275040. Accessed 18 Oct. 2016.

“Segregation.” Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. 2020. https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/unabridged/segregation.

		Example
Book with more than one authors	2 authors or editors: order them as they appear in the book. More than two authors: list the first author only followed by the phrase et al.	Cott, Nancy R., and Elizabeth H. Pleck, eds. A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women. Simon and Schuster, 1979. Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State UP, 2004.
Book by an Organization	List the name of the organization at the beginning of the entry.	Independent Commission of International Development Issues. North-South: a programme for survival. Pan Books, 1980.
Book with no author	If the book has no author then skip this element.	New York Public Library American History Desk Reference. Macmillan, 1997.
Chapter of a book	*Last name, First name. "Chapter Title." Title of Book, edited by Editor's Name(s), Publisher, Year, Page range of entry.*	Milkman, Ruth. "The new American workplace: high road or low road?" Workplaces of the future, edited by Paul Thompson and Chris Warhurst. Macmillan Press, 1998. 22-34.

Consult the title page, not the cover of the book.
Sometimes the date of publication is on the copyright page (reverse of tile page).
Treat a pdf document as a print document.
If the person named on the title page is the editor, rather than the author, add a comma then the abbreviation "ed." For subsequent editions of a book add the number of the edition after the title.
List the names in the order in which they appear on the title page.
Only the author's first name should be reversed
If a source has three or more authors reverse the first of the names and follow it with a comma and et al (“and others”)
Add "Trans."—the abbreviation for translated by—and follow with the name(s) of the translator(s).
The city of publication is no longer necessary at MLA. We do, however, still put it in.
Capitalize all words in English titles, except: a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, it, or, nor. Also, capitalize the first word following a colon.

If you have used a book in Greek, you add it to your bibliography/works cited page, as follows:

Start with the author or the title of the book transliterated and continue with the rest of the reference in Greek

Examples:

Daskalopoulos, Demetres and Maria Stasinopoulou

Δημήτρης Δασκαλόπουλος, και Μαρία Στασινοπούλου, Ο βίος και το έργο του Κ.Π. Καβάφη. Μεταίχμιο, 2002

Pickover, Clifford A. Χρόνος: οδηγός για ταξιδιώτες. Κέδρος, 2008

Seferis, Giorgos

Σεφέρης, Γιώργος. Ποιήματα. 11η έκδοση. Ίκαρος, 1977.