Mla format citation for short stories

McWilliams, Ellen. Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildingsroman. Ashgate, 2009.

In-text: (McWilliams 56).

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See MLA Handbook section 5.54 (164-68) on how to identify the publisher of a book.

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale.

McClelland and Stewart/Bantam, 1986.

---. Oryx and Crake Doubleday, 2003.

In-text: (Atwood, Oryx 24) or (Atwood, Handmaid 50).

Note: if an in-text citation does not give enough information to lead to an entry in your works cited (such as in the case when there are two or more works by the same author), "you must add a title to your in-text citation so your reader knows which work you are citing" (MLA 235). 

The second Atwood entry includes three hyphens in place of the author's name in the Works Cited list as per section 5.126 of the MLA