This handout, created by librarians, provides guidelines and.

How to cite a short story in a book mla. Short story from a book (like your textbook) (1) author. How to cite a short story mla works cited. Cite the short story the same way you would cite a poem posted to a blog by someone who is not the poem’s author but who is responsible for the blog as a whole.

Include the medium of publication, such as print or web, followed by a period. Give the page numbers on which the story appears with a period at the. Provide the page numbers on which the story appears with a period at the end.

Type the city of publication, a colon, the name of the publishing company, a comma, and the year, followed by a period. Your citation should look as. In this case, you put the article title in quotations, italicize the journal name, and add the volume, issue, and page numbers, along with the pdf’s digital information at the end.

Next, write the story's title in quotation marks using title case and put a period after it, inside the closing quotation marks. “university press” should be abbreviated to “up” in a works cited entry. Method 2creating a citation for the works cited page.

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