MLA Works Cited Entries

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MLA Works Cited Entries

• Reprinted Material

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Sometimes a work in an anthology was first
published elsewhere.

• Give the original publication information that is
  provided for the work.
• Followed this with the abbreviation for reprinted
  (Rpt.), the word in, and the publication
  information for the anthology. 

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A work taken from a collection by its author.

• In the following example, we have a poem by
  Eve Merriem called Tryst it was first
  published in her book The Nixon Poems by Atheneum
  Press in New York in 1970. It was then reprinted
  in a collection called No More Masks by Anchor
  Books in Garden City in 1973. The editors of
  that anthology are Florence Howe and Ellen Bass.

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A work taken from a collection by its author.

• Merriam, Eve.  Tryst.  The Nixon Poems.  New
• York Atheneum, 1970.  Rpt. in No More
• Masks An Anthology of Poems by
• Women.  Ed.  Florence Howe and Ellen
• Bass. Garden City Anchor, 1973. 
• Remember that on real works cited pages we have
  to double space all entries.

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An article from a scholarly journal reprinted in
an anthology.

• In the following example, we have an article by
  Jane Yolen called Americas Cinderella. It
  originally appeared in a journal called
  Childrens Literature in Education, volume 8,
  which is continuously paginated throughout its
  volume year, 1977. It was on pages 21-29. It
  was reprinted in an anthology called Cinderella
  A Casebook, which was edited by Alan Dundes and
  published in Madison by the University of
  Wisconsin Press in 1988.

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An article from a scholarly journal reprinted in
an anthology.

• Yolen, Jane.  Americas Cinderella. Childrens
  Literature in Education 8 (1977) 21- 29.  Rpt.
  in Cinderella A Casebook.  Ed Alan Dundes. 
  Madison U of Wisconsin P, 1988.
• If the article had been published in a journal
  that begins each issue on page one, we would need
  a decimal point and the issue number after the
  volume number.
• Note that with university presses, we dont drop
  the word press entirelywe abbreviate it to P
  and university to U.

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An article from a weekly magazine reprinted in an
anthology.

• The following example shows an article by Edward
  R. Said called The Clash of Ignorance.  It was
  published in the weekly magazine The Nation on
  October 3, 2001, and reprinted in A Just
  Response The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and
  September 11, 2001.  It was edited by Katrina
  Vanden Heuvel and published in New York by
  Thunders Mouth Press in 2002 on pages 233 to
  239.

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An article from a weekly magazine reprinted in an
anthology.

• Said, Edward R. The Clash of Ignorance.  The
  Nation 3 Oct. 2001.  Rpt. In A Just Response
  The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and
  September 11, 2001.  Ed. Katrina Vanden Heuvel. 
  New York Thunders Mouth, 2002.  233-39.
• Note that to indicate that The Nation is the
  title of a magazine, we dont underline (or
  italicize) itthis sets it off from the title of
  the book. We do the same with the titles of
  books and plays within other underlined or
  italicized titles.

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An article from a scholarly journal reprinted in
a critical edition of a work.

• The following example shows an article by Andrew
  Gurr called The Tempests Tempest at
  Blackfriars  that was originally published in
  the journal Shakespeare Survey, volume 41, in
  1989 (this journal is also continuously
  paginated) on pages 91-102.  It was in reprinted
  in Norton critical edition of William
  Shakepeares The Tempest, called The Tempest
  Sources and Contexts, Criticism, Rewritings and
  Appropriations, which was edited by Peter Hulme
  and William H. Sherman.   It was published in New
  York by W. W. Norton Company in 2004 on pages
  250-265.

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An article from a scholarly journal reprinted in
a critical edition of a work.

• Gurr, Andrew.  The Tempests Tempest at
  Blackfriars.  Shakespeare Survey 41 (1989)
  91-102.  Rpt. in The Tempest Sources and
  Contexts, Criticism, Rewritings and
  Appropriations.  By William Shakespeare.  Ed.
  Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman.   Norton
  Critical ed.  New York Norton, 2004. 250-65.
• Dont forget the standardized abbreviations for
  publishers names.

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Where to look for more information

• The sections beginning on page 103 of The
  Wadsworth Guide to MLA Documentation.
• The online lecture on Works Cited Entries for
  Reprinted Material.