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MLA Book Citation Template
Master MLA 9 book citations with our complete guide. Examples for single and multiple authors, editions, and e-books.
Copy-ready template
Author. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Filled example
Reference
Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. Little, Brown and Company, 2008.
In-text citation
(Gladwell 45)
Field mapping
- author
- Gladwell, Malcolm
- title
- Outliers: The Story of Success
- publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- year
- 2008
Common mistakes
- ⚠Using sentence case instead of title case
- ⚠Forgetting page numbers in in-text citations
- ⚠Including city of publication (not required in MLA 9)
- ⚠Putting the title in quotation marks
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