Bibliography Styles Handbook     

MLA Format: No author identified in a bibliography entry

When a text has no author identified, typical bibliogrphy entries will appear as follows (First and third entries below):

"Come Away, Come, Sweet Love!" The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams. 4th ed. Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1979. 2 vols.

Fee, Elizabeth, and Daniel M. Fox, eds. AIDS: The Burdens of History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

"The Shepherd's Consort." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams. 4th ed. Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1979. 2 vols.

Tesh, Sylvia Noble. Hidden Arguments. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988.


If no author can be identified, then a text is alphabetized by the first word of its title, excluding definite or indefinite articles (note that "The Shepherd's Consort" precedes Hidden Arguments).