Question

In MLA, how do you do an in-text citation for the following

"Food Matters" by Bauer 2017 is a collection of essays from different writers on the issue of food.

There is an essay by Michael Pollan "Eat food: Food Defined" which is an excerpt from his book "In defense of food: an eater's manifesto".

I am writing an essay that includes citations /lines from this essay in Bauer's book. iI will be quoting other writers as well from the same book.

MLA prescribes in text citing as for example (Pollan 8). But it is not is original book I am quoting from. It is from Bauer's anthology.

Also at the end , for my works cited, how do I list all these different excerpts from different authors ( who have original articles and books) from a single anthology I read.

Help and thanks.

This is for a writing class - not listed in your subjects below.

Answer 1

In the latest MLA 8 The format of Citations have changed . I am providing you with both intext and full bibliographic citations .

Intext - For In Text citation for the first book Food matters you should do in text citation like this

• (Bauer xx) . In this citation xx is the page number from where you are quoting .

For the second book The essay you are using you must add intext citation from the original book with the page number .

• (Pollan xx) . This will be the page number for the specific essay with the page number.

Now coming to the Final references page

• Bauer, Holly. Food Matters. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016.
• Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Penguin, 2009.

These above two are the full references in MLA format which you have to put at the end .