How do I cite a textbook using the MLA format?
Answer
To cite a shorter work (essay, story, chapter, etc.) in an anthology or other collection with editors, use the following format:
Last Name, First Name of Author. "Title of Shorter Work." Title of Collection, edited by Editor's Name(s), Publisher, Year, Page range of entry, URL or DOI if applicable.
Twain, Mark. "A Reminiscence of Artemus Ward." The Sagebrush Anthology : Literature From the Silver Age of the Old West, edited by Lawrence I. Berkove, University of Missouri Press, 2006, pp. 242-245, doi: 10.1017/S0021875807004458.
If you are citing a book where the entirety of the book is written by the same author(s), you cite the whole book using the standard book format for MLA:
Last Name, First Name of Author. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
Graff, Gerald, et al. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 4th ed., W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
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