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One Author
One political theorist identified two main categories of corporate influence (Berle 151).
Berle identified two main categories of corporate influence (151).  

WORKS CITED PAGE

Arrange the list in alphabetical order. Double-space between all entries. The first line of entry is flush left, and TAB is used on the next and succeeding lines.

A Book with a Single Author
Troyka, Lynn Quitman. Handbook for Writers. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1987.
A Book with Two Authors
Wimsatt, William K., and Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1978.
A Book with an Editor
Williams, Linda, ed. History of Women in Labor. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1973.
A Work in More Than One Volume
Lincoln, Sam. Lincoln. Ed. Roy P. Basler. 8 vols. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1953.
A Selection From an Anthology
Smith, Jay. “Homecoming.” Vietnam Remembered. Ed. Luis Munoz. New York: Knopf, 1980.
A Journal Article
Lever, Janet. “Games Children Play.” Social Problems 23 (1976): 478-87.
An Unsigned Newspaper Article
“The Right to Die.”  Time  11 Oct. 1976: 101.
An Interview
Smithson, Councilman John. Personal interview. 6 Sept. 1985.
A Website
Taylor, Todd. Basic CGOS Style. 1 Sept. 1998. Columbia University Press. 20 March 2000 <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html>.
A Journal Article from a Full-Text Database
Barnes, Cynthia. “Ernest Hemingway. One True Sentence.” Humanities 26 (Jul/Aug 2005): 18-23. Academic Search Elite. EBSCOhost. University of Oklahoma, Norman. 20 July 2006 <http://web.ebscohost.com>.

Reference: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Gibaldi, Joseph. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999.