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MLA Book Citation. 1.LastName (comma) FirstName (period) 2.Title – underlined (period) 3.City (colon) 4.Publisher/Press (comma) 5.MOST CURRENT Year –

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1 MLA Book Citation

2 1.LastName (comma) FirstName (period) 2.Title – underlined (period) 3.City (colon) 4.Publisher/Press (comma) 5.MOST CURRENT Year – on Versa page (period) 6.Print (period) DON’T FORGET HANGING INDENT!

3 Write down author’s Last name (Comma) First Name (Period). FIRST LETTERS ARE CAPITALIZED! Example: Collins, Suzanne.

4 Write down title of the book. Don’t return to the next line – write the title RIGHT AFTER the author’s name. Watch Capitalization! First and Major words are capitalized. Example: Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games.

5 Write down the City where the book was published. Add a colon afterwards. You do NOT need to list the state, unless it’s a little-known town (see me). ONLY THE CITY. Example: Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York:

6 Write down the name of the company who published the book. Add a comma. Example: Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Inc.,

7 Write down the most current year the book was published. Followed by a period. Example: Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2009.

8 Finish with the word Print (period). If this were an online source, you’d write something different. Example—Two Authors: Collins, Suzanne and Gina Greenway. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2009. Print. Example: Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2009. Print.

9 Brown, Jim. The Fallmouth Disaster. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2006. Print. Davis, George. The Most Dangerous Game: Part II of the Adventure. Chicago: HarperCollins Press. 2013. Print. Marcus, Steven. Now is the Time to Act. Hannover, MO: Last Chance Books, 1999. Print. Steinim, Gloria. The High School Years: Freshmen Introduction. Orlando: Chicago Public School Press, 2013. Print.


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