Example:
McGill, Ivan, John Kurt Glenn, and Alice Brockbank. The Action Learning Handbook: Powerful Techniques for Education. New York: Routledge Falmer, 2004.
Explanation:
List the first author last name first followed by the first and middle names followed by a comma. All other authors are listed first name followed by the last name. Insert the word "and" before the last author.
According to p. 95 of the MLA Handbook 8th ed. Spell out months in the body of your paper and abbreviate as follows in your works cited list:
January = Jan.
February = Feb.
March = Mar.
April = Apr.
May = May
June = June
July = July
August = Aug.
September = Sept.
October = Oct.
November = Nov.
December = Dec.
Before citing an article from a periodical, one needs to determine if the article is from a magazine or a scholarly journal. There are two general clues to look to in order to make this determination:
1. Frequency of publication. Journals are more likely to be monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly publications. If the periodical is published weekly, then it is a magazine and not a journal.
2. Pagination. Magazines are generally paginated by issue, i.e. with each new issue the page numbers start over with number one. Scholarly journals are paginated consecutively throughout the volume year. Page numbering does not begin with number one again until the first issue of the next volume year.
Examine your article and determine if it is a magazine article or not. If it is magazine article, follow this link. Remember, book reviews and newspapers articles are cited differently than both magazine and journal articles.
If you got the article from a print journal:
Hagen, Patricia L., and Thomas W. Zelman. "'We Were Never on the Scene of the Crime':
Eavan Boland's Repossession of History." Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 37, no. 4, 1991, pp. 442-453.
OR if you got the full-text of the article from an online database:
Hagen, Patricia L., and Thomas W. Zelman. "'We Were Never on the Scene of the Crime':
Eavan Boland's Repossession of History." Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 37, no. 4, 1991,
pp. 442-453, InfoTrac Student Edition, doi:10.5465/amle.2013.0337. Accessed 19 Mar. 2016.
OR if the article does not have a doi number:
Hagen, Patricia L., and Thomas W. Zelman. "'We Were Never on the Scene of the Crime':
Eavan Boland's Repossession of History." Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 37, no. 4, 1991,
pp. 442-453, InfoTrac Student Edition, https://akin.css.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx
direct=true&db=bth&AN=116756626&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 19 Mar. 2016.
Author: Hagen, Patricia L., and Thomas W. Zelman. |
Title & subtitle of the article: "'We Were Never on the Scene of the Crime': Eavan Boland's Repossession of History." |
Title & subtitle of journal: Twentieth Century Literature |
Volume number & issue number: vol. 37, no. 4, |
Year of publication: 1991, |
Page numbers: pp. 442-453. DOI number OR Website Address: doi:10.5465/amle.2013.0337 OR https://akin.css.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=116756626&site=eds-live&scope=site |
[The above information is based on MLA Handbook 8th edition]