utter confusion.

So, I've been focusing on writing my paper, and I've had very few problem, until now. I'm working on my Works Cited page, and I've had no problem with citing my books and the journal articles (except guessing what the gale group wants to be called). However, from what I can tell, there are three different ways to cite articles from the reference collection, none of which seem to get the whole job done.

On the (Local college) library web site there is an entry for "Articles or Chapter from an Editted Book". The reference books are certainly books, which are editted, and contain articles. But the Library entry does not include any information for citing volume number, which seems pretty important when you consider that some of these reference collections have over one-hundred volumes.

The Troyka & Hesse Handbook for Writers, Seventh Edition has two entries that sound right for a reference book: "Signed Article in a Reference Book-MLA" and "Article from a collection of Reprinted Articles-MLA". Both of the those describe the reference books I used, but neither addresses volume numbers, either. The latter entry, "Article from a collection of repreinted articles" is the most thorough and seems like the most correct, but it's also as such the most complicated, and theHandbook for Writers provides no attached text to explain the single confusin example, so I doubt I could correctly mimic that kind of entry.




That all being said, I'm going to use the (local college) "Articles or Chapters from an editted book" format. I can't guarantee that it's the right one to use, but I can guarantee that I don't know that any other format is more correct.