MLA FORMAT How to Cite Articles and Essays Reprinted in GALE

MLA FORMAT

How to Cite Articles and Essays Reprinted in GALE LITERARY CRITICISM

PRINT Sources and ONLINE Sources

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The Works Cited list citation formats shown here are based on guidelines from the MLA Handbook for Writers

of Research Papers, 8th edition, 2016. Additional MLA format guides are available at

http://library.pensacolastate.edu/cite-your-sources/

For the Works Cited page, alphabetize the list of sources by the first word of the entry, double space each

entry, and place a hanging indent for any line after the first line of each entry.

Gale Literary Criticism print sources and the online Gale databases Literature Resources from Gale and the

Gale Virtual Reference Library contain reprinted articles, essays, etc. from a variety of scholarly publications.

Include as many of the following core elements as possible in the order shown and with the punctuation shown

(punctuation magnified for emphasis):

(1) Author

(2) Title of source

. (“In quotation marks”)

(3) Title of first container

, (anthology or reference works, italicized)

(4) Other contributors

, (see MLA Handbook, pp. 37-38)

(5) Version

, (edition)

(6) Number

, (In most cases, you will include the volume number here)

(7) Publisher

(8) Publication date

(9) Location. (page number/s)

(10) Title of second container, (italicized)

(11) Other contributors,

(12) Version

(13) Number

(14) Publisher

(15) Publication date

(16) Location

CITING FROM GALE LITERARY CRITICISM PRINT SOURCES

To cite a previously-published article reprinted in a Gale Literary Criticism volume, cite the publication

information for the work that you are using. Next, add the information about the Gale volume itself.

See the following examples:

Article from a scholarly journal:

Tracy, Steven C. “Blues to Live By: Langston Hughes’s ‘The Blues I’m Playing.’” Short Story

Criticism, project editors Jessica Bonarito and Jelena Krstovic, vol. 90, Thomson Gale, 2006,

pp. 154-58. Originally published in The Langston Hughes Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 1993,

pp. 12-18.

Essay from a book:

George, William. “Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken.’” Poetry Criticism, project editor Michelle Lee, vol. 71,

Thomson Gale, 2006, pp. 45-46. Originally published in Explicator, vol. 49, no. 4, Summer 1991,

pp. 230-32.

Original article with no named author in a Gale volume (not previously published elsewhere):

“Toni Morrison.” Black Literature Criticism, edited by James P. Draper, vol. 3, Thomson Gale, 1992, pp.

1423-1425.

CITING FROM GALE LITERARY CRITICISM

ONLINE SOURCES

The Works Cited list citations below are from Literature Resources from Gale or Gale Virtual

Reference Library. Online subscription databases are available to registered Pensacola State College

students.

Article from a scholarly journal:

Benfey, Christopher. “The Critter Poet.” New Republic, vol. 21, no. 12, 1997, pp. 38-42. Literature

Resource Center database.

Essay from a book:

Hacht, Anne Marie, editor. “The Color Purple.” Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice,

vol. 1, Gale, Detroit, 2006, pp. 172–185. Gale Virtual Reference Library database.

Article from a book with an edition number and no page numbers are provided:

Christensen, Paul, and Andrew O. Jones. “Gary Snyder: Overview.” Reference Guide to American

Literature, edited by Jim Kamp. 3rd ed., St. James, 1994. Literature Resource Center database.

Always check with your instructor to be sure that you are citing your references correctly.

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