MLA FORMAT FOR DOCUMENTATION

A.  Citing References in the Text

1. Author's name not given in the text.
        One modern researcher has found that dreams move backward in time as the night progresses (Dement 71).
2. Author's name previously given in the text.
        Freud states that "a dream is the fulfillment of a wish" (154).
3. More than one work by the same author cited.
        One current theory emphasizes the principle that dreams express "pro-found aspects of personality" (Foulkes, Sleep 184). But investigation shows that young children's dreams are "rather simple and unemotional" (Foulkes, "Dreams" 78)
4. A work with more than one author.
        Psychologists hold that no two children are alike (Gesell and Ilg 68). 

B.  Writing a List of Works Cited
    At the end of the paper you must provide a list of Works Cited, an alphabetical reference list of all the works you have cited in your paper.

1. A book with one author.
        Frye, Norhtrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton UP, 1957.
2. A book with two or three authors.
        Gesell, Arnold, and Frances L. Ilg. Child Development: An Introduction to the Study of Human Growth. New York: Harper, 1949.
3. A book with more then three authors.
        Spiller, Robert, et al. Literary History of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1960.
4. A book with a corporate author.
        United States Capitol Society. We, the People: The Story of the United States Capitol. Washington: National Geographic Soc., 1964.
5. A work in more than one volume.
        Smith, Page. A New Age Now Begins. 2 vols. New York: McGraw, 1976.
6. A work with an editor.
        Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. Ed. Kenneth S. Lynn. New York: Rinehart, 1959.