MLA style of referring the 7th edition

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Books

one author
Hillman, Richard. The Title. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Print.

two authors
Hand, Richard J. and Michael Wilson. The Title. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. Print.

three authors
Cargill, Oscar, William Charvat, and Donald D. Walsh. The Title. New York: Modern Language Association, 1966. Print.

more than three authors
Howe, Louise, et al. The Title. London: Macmillan, 1982. Print.

no author given
The Title. 15th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Print.

an organization or institution as “author”
American Psychological Association. The Title. 5th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001. Print.

an editor or compiler as “author”
Updike, John, comp. and ed. The Title. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Print.

an edition of an author’s work
Austen, Jane. The Title. Ed. Robert P. Irvine. Peterborough, ON: Broadview P, 2002. Print.

a translation
García Márquez, Gabriel. The Title. Edith Grossman. New York: Knopf, 2003. Print.

a work in a series
Renwick, William Lindsay. English Literature, 1789-1815. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1963. Print. The Oxford History of English Literature 9.

a work in several volumes

Gardner, Stanley E. The Artifice of Design. New York: Hill & Wang, 1962. Print. Vol. 2 of A History of American Architecture. 5 vols. 1960-64.

conference proceedings
Kartiganer, Donald M. and Ann J. Abadie, eds. Proceedings of the 24th Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference,, 1997, U of Mississippi: Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1997. Jackson: Univ Press of Mississippi, 2000. Print.

periodical
Loesberg, Jonathan. “The Title.” Victorian Studies 40 (1997): 625-54. Print.

newspaper
Jonas, Jack. “The Title.” Washington Star 5 Mar. 1961, Eastern ed., sec. F: 4. Print.

magazine
Funicello, Dori. “The Title.” National Review 19 Aug. 1999: 34-37. Print.

a review
Burt, Struthers. “The Title.” Rev. of The Way Some People Live, by John Cheever. Saturday Review 24 April 1943: 9. Print.

an article in a reference book or encyclopaedia

Haseloff, Arthur. “Illuminated Manuscripts.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1967 ed. Print.
“Painting, The History of Western.” Encyclopaedia Americana. 13th ed. 1998. Print.

a work in a collection or anthology

Davidson, Cynthia A. “The Title.” American Short-Story Writers Since World War II. Fourth Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography 244. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 164-169. Print.

paper published as part of the proceedings of a conference
Aytür, Necla. “The Title.” William Faulkner: Prevailing Verities and World Literature. Proceedings of the 6th Comparative Literature Symposium, January 24-26, 1973. Ed. Wolodymyr T. Zyla and Wendell M. Aycock. Lubbock, TX: Interdepartmental Committee on Comparative Literature, Texas Tech U, 1973. 25-39. Print. Page 4