Source Type Book • The author's name should be written last name first	MLA Format Author. Title of book. City of publication: Publisher, Year.	Example Clancy, Tom. The Sum of All Fears. New York: Berkley, 1992.	Parenthetical Format (Clancy 115).
Book no author	Title. City of publication: Publisher. Year.	Chronicles of the 20th Century. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1995.	(Chronicles... 147).
Two or three authors	Author, and author. Title. City of publication: Publisher, Year.	Writer, Jay, and Blaine Baggett. The Great War and the Shaping cf the 20^th Century. New York: Penguin, 1996.	(Writer and Baggett 95).
Four or more authors and an edition	First author listed, and others. Title. # edition. City of publication: Publisher, Year.	Obrien. Robert, and others. Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse. 2^nd ed. New York: Facts on File, 1992.	(Obrien and others 175).
Book with an editor • If the person is the editor, rather than author, add a comma then “ed.”	Editor's name, ed. Title of book. City of publication: Publisher, Year.	Fitzgerald, Terence J., ed. Policy in Society. New York: H. W. Wilson, 2000.	(Fitzgerald 89).