MLA Citation Style 9th Edition

In this case, the e-book is a title that was originally published in print and then later made available online through another service. To reflect this in a citation, you will include information about the e-book service in a second container description (in this case, Ebook Central).

Citation Recipe

1. Author.    Kanneh, Kadiatu.
2. Title of source.      African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism, and Black Literatures.
3. Title of container,    
4. Other contributors,    
5. Version,
6. Number,
7. Publishers,   Routledge,
8. Publication date,   1998,
9. Location.  

Container 2 (in this case the e-book platform that hosts the e-book):

1. Title of container,     Ebook Central,
2. Other contributors,    
3. Version,
4. Number,
5. Publishers, 
6. Publication date,  
7. Location.     ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rdc/detail.action?docID=165188.

Example

(Kanneh 76)

Kanneh, Kadiatu. African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism, and Black Literatures. Routledge, 1998. Ebook Central, ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rdc/detail.action?docID=165188.

Citation Recipe

1. Author.    Bordo, Susan.
2. Title of source.     "The Moral Content of Nabokov's Lolita."
3. Title of container,     Aesthetic Subjects,
4. Other contributors,     edited by Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter,
5. Version,
6. Number,
7. Publishers,    U of Minnesota P,
8. Publication date,    2003,
9. Location.     pp. 125-52.

Example

(Bordo 127) 

Bordo, Susan. "The Moral Content of Nabokov's Lolita." Aesthetic Subjects, edited by Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter, U of Minnesota P, 2003, pp. 125-52.

In this case, the citation is for an entry in an online reference without an individual author.  The reference work was found within Credo Reference.

Citation Recipe

1. Author.    
2. Title of source.      "Brain."
3. Title of container,    Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology,
4. Other contributors,    edited by Jacqueline L. Longe, 
5. Version,          3rd ed., 
6. Number,
7. Publishers,   Gale,
8. Publication date,   2016,
9. Location.  

Container 2 (in this case the database containing the reference work):

1. Title of container,     Credo Reference,
2. Other contributors,    
3. Version,
4. Number,
5. Publishers, 
6. Publication date,  
7. Location.     search-credoreference-com.ezproxy.ardc.talonline.ca/content/entry/galegp/brain/0.

Example

("Brain" par. 1)

"Brain." Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, edited by Jacqueline L. Longe, 3rd ed., Gale, 2016. Credo Reference, search-credoreference-com.ezproxy.ardc.talonline.ca/content/entry/galegp/brain/0.