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RUSZMC27_0132334585.QXD 12/19/06 4:07 PM Page 302 27b 302 MLA MLA Documentation MLA MODELS 50B-1 Books and pamphlets 1. BOOK—BASIC ENTRY Author Title ▼ ▼ Balliett, Whitney. New York Notes: A Journal of Jazz, 1972-1975. Boston: Houghton, 1976. ▼ IN-TEXT NOTE: (Balliett 5) ▼ Publication information (Place: Publisher,Year.) For most books and pamphlets, list only author(s), title, and basic publication details (place, publisher, and year). For some, however, provide additional details: • Is an editor, translator, or other contributor listed on the title page? List secondary acknowledgments after the title. See Models 10, 11, 12 • Is the book’s original publication date known? Insert the original year of publication after the title, before the publication details for the edition used. See Models 2, 3 • Does the title page list a name or number for this edition? Insert the name or number of the edition after the title and secondary contributors (if any). See Models 3, 4 • Is the book part of a multi-volume set? After the name of the edition (if any), list the volume number you are using or, if using more than one volume, the total volume count, citing specific volume numbers in your in-text notes. See Models 4, 5 • Is the book part of a series? List the series title (neither underlined nor in quotes) and the series number (if any) just before the place of publication. See Model 6
RUSZMC27_0132334585.QXD 12/19/06 4:07 PM Page 303 MLA Models 27b MLA 303 Works Cited and In-text Citations (Notes) 2. BOOK— With Original Publication Date 3. BOOK— Subsequent Edition 4. BOOK— Multi-volume Set, Referring to One 5. BOOK— Multi-volume Set, Referring to Many 6. BOOK— One That Is Part of a Series of Books Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1969. New York: Bantam, 1997. IN-TEXT NOTE: (Angelou 45) Holiday, Billie, and William Dufty. Lady Sings the Blues. 1956. Revised discography ed. London: Penguin, 1992. IN-TEXT NOTE: (Holiday and Dufty 113-14) Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. IN-TEXT NOTE: (Rampersad 14, 21) Titon, Jeff Todd, and Bob Carlin. American Musical Traditions. 5 vols. New York: Schirmer-Gale, 2002. IN-TEXT NOTE: (Titon and Carlin 4: 36) Tuso, Joseph F. Singing the Vietnam Blues: Songs of the Air Force in Southeast Asia. Texas A&M U Military History Ser. 19. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1990. IN-TEXT NOTE: (Tuso 78) 7. PAMPHLET Women in Music and Art. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Lib., 1981. IN-TEXT NOTE: (Women 2)
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