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If you are citing a work that has been published with a new title, list the title of the version you are citing in your works-cited-list entry. If it is important for your reader to know the original title, provide the information in an endnote or in your prose.
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Published 2 May 2018
The MLA Handbook gives examples of how original publication information can be provided as an optional element in a works-cited-list entry (53). But MLA style generally avoids annotating works-cited-list entries: if information is important for the reader to know, it belongs in your discussion or in a note.
For example, let’s say that you quote from the following version of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, a novel that was originally published as a series of short stories:
Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot. 1950. www.ttu.ee/public/m/mart-murdvee/Techno-Psy/Isaac_Asimov_-_I_Robot.pdf.
In an endnote, you might explain the original publication context for the novel, . . .
Published 21 March 2018
Yes.
Published 17 November 2017
No. You should provide the publication facts of the version of the work you consulted and do not need to detail the work’s publication history.
Published 15 November 2017
To cite an essay with an author in a textbook with authors rather than editors, follow the MLA format template and list the authors of the textbook in the “Other contributors” slot:
Graff, Gerald. “Disliking Books.” From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Practical Guide, by Stuart Greene and April Lidinsky, 2nd ed., Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2012, pp. 22-26.
Published 25 October 2017
To document a movie or video republished on a Web site, provide the publication details for the movie in container 1 and the publication details for the Web site in container 2:
Richardson, Tony, director. Sanctuary. Screenplay by James Poe, performances by Lee Remick and Yves Montand, Twentieth Century Fox, 1961. YouTube, uploaded by LostCinemaChannel, 17 July 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnzFM_Sq8s.
Published 17 October 2017
When you are citing an image reproduced in a book, it is usually sufficient to refer to it in your text and create a works-cited-list entry for the book as whole. In the example below, the image, printed in a book on a page with no page number, is described in prose, and the figure number is given parenthetically:
One political cartoonist working during the 1919 Paris peace talks depicted Bolshevism as an aggressive, predatory hawk, and the peace treaty as an unknowing dove (MacMillan, fig. 6).
Work Cited
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001.
Published 7 August 2017
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