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MLA Style Guide

Guide for using the Modern Language Association (MLA) style manual.

eBooks (both kinds) - MLA 9, pp 316

If a book is published as a specific eBook edition, then it needs to be identified as such. Place "e-book ed.," just before the publisher in the citation. If the book is just the text of the book found in a database or online, use the format below.

Template for an ebook

Last Name, First Name. "Title of a Chapter in Quotation Marks." Title of Book in Italics with Nouns and Verbs Capitalized, edited by First and Last Name, Publisher, date of publication, pp inclusive pages used. Name of ebook collection in italics, URL or DOI.

Works Cited Page

Phillips, Anne, et al. The Faith Lives of Women and Girls: Qualitative Research Perspectives. Ashgate, 2013. eBook Collection(EBSCOhost), web.b.ebscohost.com/ ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/ bmxlYmtfXzYwODg2MV9fQU41?sid=79a9e547- 0edc-4ff5-bd722913cae9d6c6@sessionmgr103& amp;vid=7&format=EB&rid=1.

Citations (in-text)

(Phillips 125)