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Examples below do not reflect citation changes made by the MLA in April 2009. For more explanation and current citation examples see the: MLA Update.

Examples for Print Resources:
(Frequently Requested Examples)

American Decades | Annals of America | Bartlett's Familiar Quotations | CLC | DSM-IV | Novels for Students | Occupational Outlook Handbook | Opposing Viewpoints | Statistical Abstract

American Decades: Article in a multivolume reference work, editor
"Immigration." American Decades: 1900-1909. Ed.
Vincent Tompkins. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1996. 311-313.
The Annals of America (5.6.8 & 5.6.15): Article in a multivolume reference work
"Proclamation of the Delano Grape Workers." 1969.
The Annals of America. Vol. 19. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1974. 47-48.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (5.6.7): Work in a collection
Wilson, Woodrow. "Message to the Senate." 1914.
John Bartlett. Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. 16th ed. Ed. Justin Kaplan. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1992. 572.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (5.6.7): Previously published scholarly essay in a collection
Miller, Gabriel. "A Small Trumpet of Defiance:
Politics and the Buried Life in Norman Mailer's Early Fiction." Politics and the Muse: Studies in the Politics of Recent American Literature. Ed. Adam J. Sorkin. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989. 79-92. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas Votteler. Vol. 74. Detroit: Gale, 1993. 219-225.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (5.6.7 & 5.7.7): Previously published movie review in a collection
Denby, David. "Making Book." Rev. of Tough Guys
Don't Dance, dir. Norman Mailor. New York Magazine 28 Sept. 1987: 136+. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas Votteler. Vol. 74. Detroit: Gale, 1993. 218-219.

DSM-IV (5.6.7):
Entire work - Collection or anthology with corporate author, edition

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed., Text Revision. Washington: American Psychiatric Association, 2000.
DSM-IV:
Part of work - Collection or anthology with corporate author, edition
"Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type." American
Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed., Text Revision. Washington: American Psychiatric Association, 2000. 154-158.
Novels for Students (5.6.7): Unsigned essay in a collection
"Charming Billy." Novels for Students. Ed. Sara
Constantakis. Vol. 23. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 1-8.
Novels for Students (5.6.7): Previously published essay in a collection
Carden, Mary Paniccia. "Making Love, Making
History: (Anti)romance in Alice McDermott's At Weddings and Charming Billy." Doubled Plots: Romance and History. Ed. Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Garden. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2003. 3-23. Excerpted and Rpt. in Novels for Students. Ed. Sara Constantakis. Vol. 23. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 10-16.
Occupational Outlook Handbook(5.6.21): Article in a government publication, edition specified
United States. Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. "Dietitians and Nutritionists." Occupational Outlook Handbook: 2006-07 Library ed. Lanham: Bernan, 2006. 284-285.
Opposing Viewpoints (5.6.7, 5.6.16 & 5.6.18): Essay that was previously published under another name reprinted in a collection that is part of a series, imprint
Spiegelman, Helen and Bill Sheehan. "Current
Municipal Waste Systems Lead to Dangerous Landfills." Getting Rid of the Throwaway Society. Business. Mar/Apr. 2006. Rpt. in Garbage and Recycling. Ed. Mitchell Young. Opposing Viewpoints Series. Detroit: Greenhaven Press-Gale, 2007. 21-27.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (5.6.21): Table in a government publication, edition not specified
United States. Census Bureau. "Table 802. Farms
by Size and Type of Organization: 1974-2002." Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007. Washington:GPO, 2007. 531.

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