Download Lit. Crit. Works Cited Entry

Template for making Works Cited entries in MLA 8
Source itself
Author .
Title of source.
Container 1
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
Container 2
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
Treat all sources the
same by plugging
pieces into this
template.
Works Cited Entries for lit. crit.
 Identify WC Elements – author, title, etc. – look at the end of it
Plug them into the template
Step 1 – author and source title
Source itself
Author .
Title of source.
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona.
“He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”
Container 1
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
Container 2
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
Notice the
punctuation
!
Step 2 – Container 1
Source itself
Author .
Title of source.
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona.
“He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”
Container 1
Title of container,
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
vol. 27, no. 3-4,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
October 2005,
pp. 59-69.
Container 2
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Notice the punctuation!
Step 3 – Container 2
Source itself
Author .
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona.
Title of source.
“He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”
Title of container,
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology,
Container 1
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
vol. 27, no. 3-4,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
October 2005,
pp. 59-69.
Notice the punctuation!
Container 2
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s
Plays and Poetry,
edited by Anne Marie Hacht,
2nd ed.,
vol. 2,
You found it in this book.
Thomson Gale,
2007,
pp.451-56.
Final Works Cited Entry for the lit. crit.
found in the print book
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona. “He Says/She Says:
Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).” Journal of
Evolutionary Psychology, vol. 27, no. 3-4, October 2005, pp. 59-69.
Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s
Plays and Poetry, edited by Anne Marie Hacht, 2nd ed., vol. 2, Thomson
Gale, 2007, pp.451-56.
But what if you find the same book—and thus the same piece of
of lit. crit.—in a database? Isn’t that THREE containers????
 Put the source information from the lit. crit….
 together with the WHOLE source information that the database provides.
Whole Macbeth Article that contains critical essays
 Doing so creates a pathway from original source to the “container(s)” in which you found it.
Step 4 – Container 3????
Source itself
Author .
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona.
Title of source.
“He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”
Title of container,
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology,
Container 1
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
vol. 27, no. 3-4,
Publisher,
Location.
October 2005,
pp. 59-69.
Title of container,
Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry,
Publication Date,
Container 2
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
3
Container 2
Location.
Title of container,
edited by Anne Marie Hacht,
2nd ed.,
vol. 2,
Thomson Gale,
2007,
pp.451-56.
Show the pathway!
Gale Virtual Reference Library,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=crnorth&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX
2896100025&asid=58ed47317804bc615fc2402f5db4ab46.
Final Works Cited Entry for the lit. crit. found in the
database
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona. “He Says/She
Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality
Study).” Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, vol. 27, no. 3-4,
October 2005, pp. 59-69. Shakespeare for Students: Critical
Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by
Anne Marie Hacht, 2nd ed., vol. 2, Thomson Gale, 2007, pp.45156. Gale Virtual Reference Library,
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=crnorth&v=2.1&it
=r&id=GALE%7CCX2896100025&asid=58ed47317804bc615fc240
2f5db4ab46.
HOWEVER…
Our job is to worry about the two most recent containers
(in green and red below)
MLA 8 makes it OPTIONAL to include information
about the original publication (container 1).
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona. “He Says/She Says:
Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).” Shakespeare for
Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry,
edited by Anne Marie Hacht, 2nd ed., vol. 2, Thomson Gale, 2007,
pp.451-56. Gale Virtual Reference Library,
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=crnorth&v=2.1&it=r&id=G
ALE%7CCX2896100025&asid=58ed47317804bc615fc2402f5db4ab46.
Originally published in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, vol. 27, no. 34, October 2005, pp. 59-69.