Lastname, Firstname M. "Title of Article: Use Title or Headline Capitalization, Not ALL CAPS or all lower case." Name of the Publication, vol. #, no. #, DD. Mon. YYYY, pp. #-#. Name of Website or Database, https://url or doi.
Ching, Boby Ho-Hong. “The Effect of Masculinity Threat on Transprejudice: Influence of Different Aspects of Masculinity Contingent Self-Worth.” Psychology & Sexuality, vol. 13, no. 3, Sept. 2022, pp. 550–64. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2021.1883724.
With 2 authors, only flip the name of the first author into Last, First order.
Fetner, Hannah, and Shelie A. Miller. “Environmental Payback Periods of Reusable Alternatives to Single-Use Plastic Kitchenware Products.” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 26, no. 8, Aug. 2021, pp. 1521–37. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/10.1007/s11367-021-01946-6.
When there are 3 or more authors, just name the first author followed by "et al."
Pickel, Gert, et al. "Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Myths, Beliefs, and Democracy-Endangering Consequences." Politics and Governance, vol. 10, no. 4S1, Dec. 2022, pp. 177-191. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A729934595/OVIC?u=nhmccd_main&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=40fd56b8.
You can find journal articles online, either as open access (deliberately free) or shared. There often won't be a premade citation tool to use, and the unwary may think they're looking at regular web article.
Gaub, Janne E. "Assessing the Utility of Body-Worn Cameras for Collegiate Police Agencies." Police Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, 16 Aug. 2021, pp. 118-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/10986111211037586.
Gaub, Janne E. "Assessing the Utility of Body-Worn Cameras for Collegiate Police Agencies." Sage Journals, 16 Aug. 2021, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10986111211037586.
Powell, Lisa M., et al. "Adolescent Exposure to Food Advertising on Television." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 33, no. 4S, 2007, pp. S251-S256. CiteSeerX, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2007.07.009.
Article link to same location I viewed it.
Cao, Yingnan, et al. "Effect and Environmental Behavior of Microplastics in Soil." Waste Management & Research, 9 Aug. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X231190811
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.
Looking for a publisher? Scroll to the bottom of the page to look at the site footer.
If the publisher is the same (or almost) as the site name, skip it!
Caron, Christina. "Feeling Dismissed? How to Spot ‘Medical Gaslighting’ and What to Do About It." The New York Times, 29 July 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/well/mind/medical-gaslighting.html.
Ho, Catherine. "Smoking Weed Daily Linked to Significantly Higher Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke." San Francisco Chronicle, Hearst Communications, 28 Feb. 2024, https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/weed-heart-attack-stroke-18692351.php.
"Inclusive Design Benefits Everyone, Not Just People with Disabilities." CBC Radio, CBC/Radio-Canada, 27 July 2018, https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/rethinking-disability-1.4726131/inclusive-design-benefits-everyone-not-just-people-with-disabilities-1.4726333.
Allen, Matthew. "Designing for Disability Justice: On the Need to Take a Variety of Human Bodies into Account." Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 10 Feb. 2021, https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2021/02/designing-for-disability-justice-on-the-need-to-take-a-variety-of-human-bodies-into-account/.
"Benefits of Accessible Design." Section508.gov, General Services Administration, https://www.section508.gov/blog/benefits-accessible-design/.
Rush, Sharon, ed. "The Business Case for Digital Accessibility." W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, World Wide Web Consortium, 9 Nov. 2018, https://www.w3.org/WAI/business-case/.
You will not cite entire websites.
Create a citation for each page of the website you've pulled information from, instead.