To cite a book in MLA format
you will need:
• Author(s)
• Title of Book
• Place of Publication
• Publisher
• Year of publication
• Edition (if provided)
The citation is arranged:
Author(s). Title. Edition.
Place of Publication:
Publisher, Year of Publication
Examples:
McManus, Jane. Cuba's Island
of Dreams:
Voices from the Isle of Pines and
Youth.
Gainesville: UP of Florida,
2000.
Muraski, Shikibu. The Tale of Genji. Trans.
by
Edward G. Seidensticker. Rev. ed. New
York: Vintage-Random,
1985.
Palmer, William J., and Neal Lerner. Dickens
and New Historicism. New York:
St.
Martin's, 1997.