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MLA Style

Your guide to citations and works cited in MLA Style, 9th Edition

No Author

When no author is provided, use the title of the source in place of the author's name in the Works Cited. Follow MLA rules for capitalization and formatting, depending on the type of source. List the entry alphabetically by the first word in the title:

Works Cited

"Knorr-Brems, Bendix Complete Acquisition of R.H. Sheppard." DP: Diesel Progress, vol. 86, no. 7, July 2020, pp. 6-7.

In-text Citation

("Knorr-Brems" 6).

Anonymous

When an author is Anonymous, use the title of the source in place of the author's name in the Works Cited. If there is a key contributor to the work (translator, editor, etc.), they should be added to the entry. Follow MLA rules for capitalization and formatting, depending on the type of source. List the entry alphabetically by the first word in the title:

Works Cited

"The Ethical "I" in Research: Autoethnography and Ethics." Edited by Nathan Emmerich, SAGE Publications Ltd., 2019, dx-doi-org.ezcentennial.ocls.ca/10.4135/9781526490032.

In-text Citation

("The Ethical "I"").

No Date

When publication date is not available, skip this element in the Works Cited entry. Add an accessed date to your citation.

Works Cited

Cox, Karen. "5 Mistakes Pre-K Teachers Make the First Week of School." Prekinders. www.prekinders.com/mistakes-pre-k-teachers-first-week-school/. Accessed 3 May 2015.

In-text Citation

(Cox).

No Title

When a work is untitled, provide a concise but informative description of the work. Follow MLA rules for capitalization and formatting, depending on the type of source. List the entry alphabetically by the first word in the description:

Works Cited

Review of All We Can Save, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Keeble Wilkinson, 30 June 2020, www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews//all-we-can-save/.

In-text Citation

(Review of All We Can Save).

No Page Numbers

If a source has no page numbers, omit page numbers in your in-text citations:

(Cox).

Open License Statement

MLA Style by Centennial College Libraries is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license unless otherwise stated.

Create References with Missing Information

Placeholders for unknown information like n.d. (“no date”) are not used.

If information is missing from a source, they are simply omitted from the works cited entry.

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