Article in a Book
MLA:
Bialostosky, Don H. "Liberal Education, Writing, and the Dialogic Self."
[author of article.] [“title of article.”]
Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age.
[title of book.]
Ed. Patricia Harkin & John Schilb. New York: MLA, 1991. 11-22.
[“Ed.” book editor(s) by first name.] [city of publication: publisher, year.] [page numbers.]APA:
Bialostosky, D. H. (1991). Liberal education, writing, and the dialogic self.
[last name, initial.] [(year).] [title of article, no quotation marks.]
In P. Harkin & J. Schilb (Eds.), Contending with words: composition and rhetoric in a
[In editor(s) of book,] [title of book in italics]
postmodern age (pp. 11-22). New York: MLA.
[(page numbers of article).] [city of publication: publisher.]Chicago:
7. Bialostosky, “Liberal Education,” 17.
[fn. #.] [author last name, “shortened title,” page quoted.]
[Shortened Chicago reference; see More Notes on Chicago Style for more information.]
[Note: In the Bibliography, Chicago style adds “In” before the book’s title.]
As discussed in Books vs. Articles, an anthology is a collection of articles by different authors; most anthologies list on the title page the name of an editor who selected the articles (some anthologies have multiple editors). If your essay uses material from one of the articles, you should list the information by the author of the article. The title and editor of the anthology come later.
MULTIPLE ARTICLES FROM A COLLECTION
Note: If you cite more than one article from the same collection, you should list the collection itself as a separate item. For each article, list by the article’s author and title, then give the editor’s name and the first and last page number of the article. Extending the example above, if you were citing two different articles from Contending with Words, you would give the information as follows in your Works Cited. (Example below in MLA style; adjust as needed for other styles.)
Bialostosky, Don H. "Liberal Education, Writing, and the Dialogic Self." Harkin and Schilb 11-22.
[article author.] [“article title.”] [last name of editor(s) and full page numbers for article.]Clifford, John. "The Subject in Discourse." Harkin and Schilb 38-51.
[article author.] [“article title.”] [last name of editor(s) and full page numbers for article.]Harkin, Patricia and John Schilb, eds. Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age. New York: MLA, 1991.
[editor(s), “eds.”] [collection title.] [city of publication: publisher, year.]
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