MLA Style Entries (Two, Three, or More Authors)

Two or Three Authors

Doane, Janie, and Devon Hodges. Nostalgia and Sexual Difference: The Resistance to Contemporary Feminism. New York: Methuen, 1987. Print.

Notice that any authors’ names after the first author are written with the first name before the last name.

More than Three Authors or Editors

Boardman, John, et al., ed. The Oxford History of the Classical World. New York: Oxford UP, 1986. Print.

or

Boardman, John, Jasper Griffen, Henry Ames, and Oswyn Murray, eds. The Oxford History of the Classical World. New York: Oxford UP, 1986. Print.

With more than three authors, you have the choice of shortening the entry to provide only the first author’s name, followed by the Latin abbreviation “et al.” (which means “and others”), or you may provide all of the names. Notice that Oxford University Press is abbreviated “Oxford UP.”

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How would you write the MLA entry for this book?

Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Authors: Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver

Publisher: Harper Perennial (abbreviate as “Harper”)

Place of Publication: New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, New Delhi, Auckland

Date of Publication: 2007

Medium: Print