- Author
- Title of source
- Title of container
- Contributors
- Version
- Number
- Publisher
- Publication date
- Location
- Supplemental Elements
- Book with Personal Author(s)
- Book with Organization as Author
- Book with Editor(s)
- Parts of Books
- Government Publication
- Journal Article
- Magazine Article
- Media
- Multivolume Works
- Newspaper Article
- Other Formats
- Poetry
- Websites, Social Media, and Email
- About In-text Citations
- In-text Examples
- How to Paraphrase and Quote
- Citing Poetry
Supplemental Elements (Works Cited)
Supplemental elements should be included if they are relevant to the source and/or your use of the source. A supplemental element is placed after Title of Source if it does not pertain to the entry as a whole. Otherwise, it is placed at the end of the Works Cited entry. Occasionally, the supplemental element applies only to the first container and will be placed after the first container and before the second container.Follow a supplemental element with a period. If you need or want to include more than one supplemental element, place a comma between them. Please consult pages 208-9 of the MLA Handbook, Ninth Edition.
Supplemental elements include:
- Contributors other than the Author - most commonly placed after Title of Source
- Date of Original Publication - most commonly placed after Title of Source
- Generically labeled sections - most commonly placed after Title of Source
- Date of access - placed at the end of the citation to refer to the entire source; used when there is no publication or if the source has since been altered or deleted.
- Accessed 28 June 2016.
- Transcript.
- Address.
- EPUB.
- Lecture.
- Originally published in Harper's Magazine, Jan. 2007, pp. 2-10.
- Not italicized or in quotations.
- Example: A Song of Ice and Fire 3.
- 8 vols.
- Vol. 4 of The Years of Ronald Reagan
