Author is the first core element of the Works Cited entry. The term "author" is used loosely to mean the person or group primarily responsible for producing the source. Editors, translators, directors, performers, artists, and corporate authors such as organization or government may fill the author core element, but a descriptive label should be included (MLA 5.3). Show
One author: Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. 7th ed, McGraw Hill, 2014, p. 525. Two authors: McKee, Timothy, and James A. McKee. Business Ethics: The Political Basis of Commerce. Oxford UP, 2009. Three or more authors: Tucker, Virginia M., et al. “Learning Portals: Analyzing Threshold Concept Theory for LIS Education.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, vol. 55, no. 2, Apr. 2014, pp. 150-65. ERIC, www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=EJ1074326. One editor: DiYanni, Robert, editor. Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 6th ed., McGraw Hill, 2007. Two editors: Zeigler-Hill, Virgil, and David K. Marcus, editors. The Dark Side of Personality: Science and Practice in Social, Personality, and Clinical Psychology. American Psychological Association, 2016. Three or more editors: Damrosch, David, et al., editors. The Longman Anthology of World Literature, 2nd ed., vol. A, Pearson Education, 2009. Author in languages that the last name (surname) appears before the first name on the source cited: Cho Nam-Joo. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel. Translated by Jamie Chang, Liveright Publishing Corp., 2020. Organization, corporation, or group as an author: "Body Image." Learn, Planned Parenthood, 2016, www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/body-image. Treating other contributors as the author when your focus is on the contributor's work: Bloom, Harold, editor. Hamlet. By Shakespeare, Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008. Wraxall, Lascelles, translator. Les Miserables. By Victor Hugo, Heritage Press, 1938. Two or more sources with the same author(s): only list the author's name in the first entry, and use three dashes --- followed by a period for the subsequent entries. Sparks, Nicholas. A Walk to Remember. Warner, 1999. - - -. Dear John. Grand Central, 2007, p. 82. The only instance when it is acceptable to include an author’s name more than once in a Works Cited Page is when the author is a coauthor with another individual or team. Example when the author is a coauthor with another individual or team: Patterson, James, and Chris Grabenstein. House of Robots. Little, Brown and Co., 2014. Patterson, James, and Chris Tebbetts. Middle School: Get Me Out of Here. Little, Brown and Co., 2012. Using an online username or social media handle: @Steven_Hawking. "Run, jump, throw: The physics behind Olympic events explained." Twitter, 12 Aug 2016, 5:30 a.m., twitter.com/Steven_Hawking/status/764076653727260672?lang=en. When no author is listed: When there is no author listed for a source, place it in alphabetical order by the title. Omit words such as A, An, and The. If the title begins with a number, write the number out in word form. Twenty-Eight Days Later. Directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Alex Garland, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2002. Part of the information above is adapted from IRSC Libraries. How do you cite an author's middle name?Begin by putting the last name first. After the author's last name, add a comma. Then, add the author's initials for the author's first name and middle name (if the middle name or middle initial is provided). After each initial add a period.
Do you include middle names in MLA citations?Journal Article
Note: Use the format Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. If there are multiple authors, use and before the last author's name. "Title of the Article." Note: Include the title of a shorter work like an article in a journal in quotation marks and use headline-style capitalization.
How do you cite an author with first middle and last name in MLA?Note: List the authors' names in the order given on the publication's title page. Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Name and Author's First Name Middle Name Last Name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher's Name, Year of Publication.
Where does the middle name go in a citation?Begin with the surname followed by the initials of the first and middle name. Place a comma after the surname. Place a period after each initial in the first and middle name. Separate names with a comma and space.
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