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MLA (9th ed.) Citation Style: Number

Number

Overview
  • If your source is part of a numbered sequence, provide the type of number followed by the number (e.g. vol. 2).  Common numbered sequences are volume (vol.), issue (no.), season, episode.

  • Abbreviate volume to vol. and number to no.

  • This element ends with a comma.  

  • For more information, refer to pages 158-164 of the MLA Handbook, 9th ed.

 

Examples

Rabb, Nathaniel, et. al. "Truths About Beauty and Goodness: Disgust Affects

Moral but not Aesthetic Judgments." Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity

and the Arts, vol. 10, no. 4, 2016, pp. 492-500. PsycINFO,

doi:10.1037/aca0000051. Accessed 12 Nov. 2016.

 

 

Some texts are issued in multi-volume sets.  If you consult one volume of a numbered multi-volume set, indicate the volume number:

Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes. 2nd ed., vol. 2, Oxford UP, 2002.

or

Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950. Vol. 5, Yale UP, 1986.

 

In the first example, the vol. is not capitalized because it continues from the version core element (2nd. ed.) which ends in a comma.