Crawford, Ian A. "Astrobiological Benefits of Human Space Exploration." Astrobiology, vol. 10, no. 6, July 2010, pp. 577+. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A465145559/AONE?u=nhmccd_main&sid=ebsco&xid=9f41c1b5.
Douglas J. Leith. “Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?” IEEE Access, vol. 9, Jan. 2021, pp. 41615–27. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3065243.
Gundala, Raghava R., and Anupam Singh. “What Motivates Consumers to Buy Organic Foods? Results of an Empirical Study in the United States.” PLoS ONE, vol. 16, no. 9, Sept. 2021, pp. 1–17. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257288.
When there are 3 or more authors, just name the first author followed by "et al."
Korva, Natasha, et al. “What Do You See? Understanding Perceptions of Police Use of Force Videos as a Function of the Camera Perspective.” Behavioral Sciences & the Law, vol. 40, no. 3, May 2022, pp. 480–503. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2578.
Donohue, Laura K. The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty, Cambridge University Press, 2008. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/lib/lonestar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=412803.
Bolton, Kenneth, and Joe Feagin. Black in Blue: African-American Police Officers and Racism, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/lib/lonestar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=182839.
When there are 3 or more authors, just name the first author followed by "et al." (See the example for journal articles above if needed. Most books will have just 1-2 authors contributing equally; otherwise you tend to see different authors for different individual chapters.)
Vaping: Effects and Solutions, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/lib/lonestar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6320048.
When an organization is both the author and publisher of a work, MLA prefers to just use their name as the publisher only.
When there's no author in the citation, your in-text citation uses the title -- just enough to be unique. If I had another source without an author that started out as Vaping, I'd need to include more of the title to distinguish them from each other.
Some books have an overall editor who has solicited others to write chapters for a shared theme.
Caution! This is the kind of situation premade citations aren't great at. You're more likely to just have a citation for the overall book, which isn't quite what we want.
Your citation will start with the chapter author, then the title of the chapter. After you do the book info (title, editor, publisher, date), you'll include the range of pages that that chapter spans.
Skulley, Carrie. "'You Should Smile More!' Gender and Press Coverage of Candidates During the 2016 Presidential Primary." Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric: How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate, edited by Jeanine E. Kraybill, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2017, pp. 59-80. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/lib/lonestar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5171237.
Trying to use EasyBib etc on paywalled sources (like our databases) can go very wrong and lead to citations like:
"Database Authentication." Lone Star College. Accessed 23 Feb. 2024.
Make sure the citation you're grabbing is actually MLA format, too. There are MANY styles out there.
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