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The 8th edition of the MLA Handbook has a general set of guidelines to follow as you document your sources within the Works Cited page.
The MLA core elements recommend that citations include these specific pieces of information:
1. Author.
2. Title of Source.
3. Title of Container,
4. Other Contributors,
5. Version,
6. Number,
7. Publisher,
8. Publication date,
9. Location.
*It is possible elements 3-9 may be repeated if your source appeared in a database or in other platform.
Putting it all together:
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book in italics, Publisher, year of publication.
Rees, Celia. Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook. Harper Collins, UK, 2020.
*For more specific examples of a variety of sources, click the tabs along the left.