MLA Boot Camp: Version & Number

VERSION

• Some formats -- books in particular -- may be regularly updated, expanded, or abridged. Because several versions of a work may exist, it is important to capture information about the edition of the work in the citation. 

• Common terms indicating version (edition): 
  • Expanded ed. 
  • Updated ed. 
  • Second ed. 

NUMBER

• If the source you are citing is part of a numbered series (e.g. book series, newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.) then your citation must capture information about the number of the item. 

• Abbreviate the words volume and number when indicating the number of the source: 
  • Volume ⇒ vol.
  • Number ⇒ no.
  • Issue ⇒ no. 

MLA Citation for Works-Cited List:

Young, James A. and B. Abbott Sparks. Cattle in the Cold Desert, expanded edition, U of Nevada P,

2002, EBSCOhost, https://login.nyit.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=91099&site=ehost-live&scope=site 

MLA Citation for Works-Cited List:

Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City : Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the

Present, abridged edition, vol. 1, U of Pittsburgh P, 2008, EBSCOhost, http://arktos.nyit.edu/login?

url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=829295&site=ehost-live&scope=site 

EBOOK EXAMPLE 

MLA Citation for Works-Cited List:

Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City : Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the

Present, abridged edition, vol. 1, U of Pittsburgh P, 2008, EBSCOhost, http://arktos.nyit.edu/login?

url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=829295&site=ehost-live&scope=site Apr 5, 2017

ARTICLE EXAMPLE

MLA Citation for Works-Cited List:

Picos, Maria Teresa Vilariño. "The Library and the Librarian as a Theme in Literature." Clcweb:

Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 13, no. 5,  2011, http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol13/iss5/15/.