How to Cite Short Stories

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Laura Turner and today we're going to talk about how to cite short stories. It's pretty easy to cite a novel or a play or any other kind of primary source. But when you're citing a short story, you're probably usually going to be citing it from an anthology or another book that it's going to be in. So that's what makes it a little different from citing books or novels. First of all I have an example citing a short story in MLA format. All you had to do there is of course name the author; last name first and then a comma and then their first name. So Yardley, Mara, then the title of the short story is "Leaping in the Flowers", you put that in quotes. And then the anthology from which it came is The Best American Short Stories 1989, you will underline the book. So you'll have three different parts there. And in your fourth part is the publishing information, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,1989. And then of course you're going to also indent any lines that are following the first line. Okay. So basically like citing any other work, except that you have to find more information that you'll actually have to cite the story and then the place from which it came. So that is all the information you need to know on citing a short story."