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Quick Guide to MLA Style: E-Book Citation

This is a guide to citing sources for research papers in MLA Style

MLA 8th Ed. - E-Book Sources (Historical and Modern)

To cite an e-book, cite as much as you can of the print publication, and then add the name of the provider and/or the URL of the book (if a durable URL is available).

 

Work from Early English Books Online or Other Historical E-Book Database (NOTE: it is customary with works printed before 1900 to omit the name of the publisher)
Milton, John. Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Vnlicens'd Printing, to the Parlament of England. London, 1644. Early English Books Online, gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:11931086

E-Book
Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy. Macmillan and Co., 1914. HathiTrust Digital Library, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010570250;view=1up;seq=15