The citation examples below are based on the directions and example in section 6.15 ("When author and title are not enough") and section 6.10 ("Shortening titles of works") of the MLA Handbook, 9th edition.
Works cited
Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince. Edited by Peter Bondanella, translated by Bondanella and Mark Musa, Oxford UP, 1984.
———. The Prince. Edited by Quentin Skinner and Russell Price, Cambridge UP, 1988.
Paul, Daniel N. We Were Not the Savages: A Mi'kmaq Perspective on the Collision between European and Native American Civilizations. New 21st century ed. Fernwood Publishing, 2000.
———. We Were Not the Savages: Collision between European and Native American Civilizations. 3rd ed. Fernwood Publishing, 2006.
Citations
(Machiavelli, Prince [Bondanella] 55)
(Machiavelli, Prince [Skinner and Price] 58)
(Paul, We [21st century ed.] 194)
(Paul, We [3rd ed.] 185)