If the original publication date is relevant or necessary to put the source in context, you can also include it directly after the title. MLA format. Author's last name, first name. Book title. Year of original publication. Edition ed. Publisher, year of publication of the edition. Entry MLA Works Cited.MLA provides guidelines for writing and formatting your annotated bibliography. An example of a typical annotation is shown below. Kenny, Antoine. A new history of Western philosophy: in four, in-text citations: an overview. by the Modern Language Association. In-text citations are brief, unobtrusive references that direct readers to the works cited list entries for the sources you consulted and, if applicable, to the location of the cited source. An in-text citation begins with the shortest piece of orienting information. Start the quote with the title and include the name of the channel in the other contributors item. In the example below, the video was both created and uploaded by the BBC News organization, so the reference begins with the title. An abbreviated version of the title appears in the in-text citation. MLA format. " Title of the video." In the main text, the dates are presented differently. The main difference is that you should not abbreviate the names of the months in the main text. This is done in the list of works cited to save time. space, but it is not appropriate elsewhere. Additionally, dates do not need to be presented in day-month-year order in the main text.