1. Treat all sources the same by plugging pieces into this template.
Template for making Works Cited entries in MLA 8
Source itself
Author .
Title of source.
Container 1
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
Container 2
Treat all sources the same by plugging pieces into this template.

2. Works Cited Entries for lit. crit.
Identify WC Elements – author, title, etc. – look at the end of it
Plug them into the template

3. Step 1 – author and source title
Source itself
Author .
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona.
Title of source.
 “He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”
Container 1
Title of container,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
Container 2
Notice the punctuation!

4. Step 2 – Container 1 Notice the punctuation!
Source itself
Author .
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona.
Title of source.
 “He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”
Container 1
Title of container,
 Journal of Evolutionary Psychology,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
 vol. 27, no. 3-4,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
 October 2005,
Location.
 pp
Container 2
Notice the punctuation!

5. Step 3 – Container 2 You found it in this book.
Source itself
Author .
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona.
Title of source.
 “He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”
Container 1
Title of container,
 Journal of Evolutionary Psychology,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
 vol. 27, no. 3-4,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
 October 2005,
Location.
 pp
Container 2
 Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry,
 edited by Anne Marie Hacht,
 2nd ed.,
 vol. 2,
 Thomson Gale,
 2007,
 pp
Notice the punctuation!
You found it in this book.

6. Final Works Cited Entry for the lit. crit. found in the print book
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona. “He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”  Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, vol. 27, no. 3-4, October 2005, pp Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by Anne Marie Hacht, 2nd ed., vol. 2, Thomson Gale, 2007, pp

7. But what if you find the same book—and thus the same piece of of lit
But what if you find the same book—and thus the same piece of of lit. crit.—in a database? Isn’t that THREE containers????
Put the source information from the lit. crit….
together with the WHOLE source information that the database provides.
Whole Macbeth Article that contains critical essays
Doing so creates a pathway from original source to the “container(s)” in which you found it.

8. Step 4 – Container 3???? 3 Show the pathway!
Source itself
Author .
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona.
Title of source.
 “He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”
Container 1
Title of container,
 Journal of Evolutionary Psychology,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
 vol. 27, no. 3-4,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
 October 2005,
Location.
 pp
Container 2
 Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry,
 edited by Anne Marie Hacht,
 2nd ed.,
 vol. 2,
 Thomson Gale,
 2007,
 pp
Show the pathway! 3
Container 2
Title of container,
Gale Virtual Reference Library,
Other contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=crnorth&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX &asid=58ed bc615fc2402f5db4ab46.

9. Final Works Cited Entry for the lit. crit. found in the database
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona. “He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).”  Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, vol. 27, no. 3-4, October 2005, pp Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by Anne Marie Hacht, 2nd ed., vol. 2, Thomson Gale, 2007, pp Gale Virtual Reference Library, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=crnorth&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX &asid=58ed bc615fc2402f5db4ab46.
HOWEVER…

10. Our job is to worry about the two most recent containers
(in green and red below)
MLA 8 makes it OPTIONAL to include information about the original publication (container 1).
Thompson, Mary Ives and Francesco Aristide Ancona. “He Says/She Says: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (a Gender/Personality Study).” Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by Anne Marie Hacht, 2nd ed., vol. 2, Thomson Gale, 2007, pp Gale Virtual Reference Library, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=crnorth&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX &asid=58ed bc615fc2402f5db4ab46. Originally published in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, vol. 27, no. 3-4, October 2005, pp