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MLA 9 uses the same core elements template for every source. For a stand-alone book, you fill in Author. Title. Publisher, Year. Other elements (editor, translator, edition, version, location) only appear when relevant. The container is empty for a stand-alone book — the book is the container — but for a chapter in an edited volume, the book is the container around the chapter. That distinction is the one most students miss.
Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
MLA's standard in-text format: author + page number, with no comma. (Kahneman 24) for a quote on page 24. Two authors: (Tversky and Kahneman 1124). Three or more: (Smith et al. 78). Quoting a passage that spans pages: (Kahneman 24–26). If you've named the author in your sentence, just the page number: (24).
(Kahneman 24)
Smith, Jane, editor. Title. Publisher, Year.(Kahneman 24).An ISBN goes straight to library and publisher records — that's the cleanest path because the canonical metadata lives there. A title or "author + title" search hits OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar for the same data, plus DOI lookups for academic books. The CSL engine then renders MLA 9 formatting: title-case italicized title, trimmed publisher name, period-separated fields, four-element template. The matching (Author Page) in-text citation comes alongside.
Two authors: First last-name-first, second first-name-first, joined by "and." Example: Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman. Three or more authors: list only the first author followed by et al.: Smith, Jane, et al. The in-text citation follows the same rule: (Tversky and Kahneman) or (Smith et al.).
If the e-book has fixed pagination matching the print edition, cite it like a print book — no need to mention the format. If pagination varies (e.g., Kindle reflowable text), add the version after the title: Title. E-book ed., Publisher, Year. For in-text citations of reflowable e-books, use chapter or section numbers since page numbers won't be stable.
Format: Chapter Author. "Chapter Title." Book Title, edited by Editor First Last, Publisher, Year, pp. xx–xx. Switch the source-type pill at the top to "Book Chapter" and the generator handles the editor and page-range fields automatically.
No. MLA 9 only lists the edition when it's the second or later. Title with no edition note implies the first edition. Once revised editions exist, always include the edition: Title. 2nd ed., Publisher, Year.
List the original author as the author, then add the translator after the title: Author. Title. Translated by Translator Name, Publisher, Year. If your focus is on the translator's choices rather than the original work, you can put the translator in the author slot with a "translator" label.
Skip the author slot and start with the title in italics: Title. Publisher, Year. In-text, use a shortened title in italics: (Title 24). Reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries) often fall in this category.
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