What follows below are some examples of how to cite common book formats in MLA. For more detailed information and examples, please see Liberty University's Writing Center MLA citation examples or MLA's style site.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner, 2004.
E-book accessed online through a website or database:
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. DXBooks, 2020. eBook Central (ProQuest)
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/liberty/detail.action?docID=6185981
E-book read through specific platform:
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Kindle ed., Vintage International, 2010.
Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. 2nd ed., Yale UP, 2000.
Reitter, Paul, and Chad Wellmon. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Ferguson, Margaret, et al., editors. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. 5th ed., Norton, 2004.
Use normal citation style, but only list the author's name in the first citation. For subsequent citations from the same author list three dashes followed by a period (---.) in place of the author's name. Alphabetize these entries by the author's name then by the title of the work.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner, 2004.
---. Tender is the Night. Scribner, 2003.
Ignore “The”, “A”, or “An” at the start of any titles when alphabetizing. In this example the first title is alphabetized according to “Great” not “The.”
Carver, Raymond. "Why Don't You Dance." Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the
Short Story, Edited by Lorin Stein and Sadie Stein, Picador, 2012, pp. 198-204.
Stein, Lorin and Sadie Stein, editors. Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story.
Picador, 2012.