MLA FORMAT
How to Cite Articles and Essays Reprinted in GALE LITERARY CRITICISM
PRINT Sources and ONLINE Sources
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The Works Cited list citation formats shown here are based on guidelines from the MLA Handbook for Writers
of Research Papers, 8th edition, 2016. Additional MLA format guides are available at
http://library.pensacolastate.edu/cite-your-sources/
.
For the Works Cited page, alphabetize the list of sources by the first word of the entry, double space each
entry, and place a hanging indent for any line after the first line of each entry.
Gale Literary Criticism print sources and the online Gale databases Literature Resources from Gale and the
Gale Virtual Reference Library contain reprinted articles, essays, etc. from a variety of scholarly publications.
Include as many of the following core elements as possible in the order shown and with the punctuation shown
(punctuation magnified for emphasis):
(1) Author
.
(2) Title of source
. (“In quotation marks”)
(3) Title of first container
, (anthology or reference works, italicized)
(4) Other contributors
, (see MLA Handbook, pp. 37-38)
(5) Version
, (edition)
(6) Number
, (In most cases, you will include the volume number here)
(7) Publisher
,
(8) Publication date
,
(9) Location. (page number/s)
(10) Title of second container, (italicized)
(11) Other contributors,
(12) Version
,
(13) Number
,
(14) Publisher
,
(15) Publication date
,
(16) Location
.
CITING FROM GALE LITERARY CRITICISM PRINT SOURCES
To cite a previously-published article reprinted in a Gale Literary Criticism volume, cite the publication
information for the work that you are using. Next, add the information about the Gale volume itself.
See the following examples:
Article from a scholarly journal:
Tracy, Steven C. “Blues to Live By: Langston Hughes’s ‘The Blues I’m Playing.’” Short Story
Criticism, project editors Jessica Bonarito and Jelena Krstovic, vol. 90, Thomson Gale, 2006,
pp. 154-58. Originally published in The Langston Hughes Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 1993,
pp. 12-18.