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"Author." MLA Handbook. 8th ed., MLA, 2016, pp. 21-25.

"Title." MLA Handbook. 8th ed., MLA, 2016, pp. 25-29.

Authors	Rule	Examples
No Author	If no author given, skip the author and start with the title of source.
1 Author	Last Name, First Name.	Smith, John.
2 Authors	Last Name, First Name, and First Name Last Name.	Smith, John, and Mary Fields.
3+ Authors	Last Name, First Name of First Author, et al.	Smith, John, et al.
Association or Company	Use the name of the association or company as the author. If a work is written and published by an organization, list the organization as publisher only. Initial articles (a, an, the) should be omitted.	American Cancer Society.
Editor or other role	If the role of that person or group is something other than creating the work’s main content (as the author), follow the name with a label that describes the role. Only do this in the author field if it is important to highlight this person; otherwise use the Other Contributors field.	Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor.

Source	Rule: Italics or "quotation marks"	Example
Entire Book	Italicize self-contained works	The Awakening.
Collection of Essays	Italicize self-contained works	The Norton Introduction to Literature.
Essay, story, or poem	Contained in a larger work (book, website, etc.) use "quotation marks"	"The Cultural Consequences of Printing."
Play	Italicize plays even if they are in a larger work.	Romeo and Juliet.
Article from Journal, Magazine, or Newspaper	Contained in a larger work (book, website, etc.) use "quotation marks"	"Literary History and Sociology."
Entire Journal, Magazine, or Newspaper	Italicize self-contained works	The Georgia Review.
Entire Website	Italicize self-contained works	WebMD.
Website Article	Contained in a larger work (book, website, etc.) use "quotation marks"	"Free Will."
Song	Contained in a larger work (book, website, etc.) use "quotation marks"	"Pretty Hurts."

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