Write the information that comes from multiple authors in your paper. For a proper attribute, you can either cite the names of the authors in your text, or you can place the authors' names in parentheses with the relevant page numbers after the information has been presented. For example, you could write According to John Smith and Jane Doe, the economy is improving. You could also write as follows: The economy is improving (Smith and Doe, 129-130).
Add a Works Cited page to your paper. The in-text citation provides the reader with the information needed to locate the entry on the Works Cited page, which lists all of the references you used in writing your paper.
Determine the location of your reference with multiple authors on the Works Cited page. The entry will be alphabetically placed in the list of references, and the placement is determined by the last name of the first author listed on the title page.
Write the authors' names in the reference on the Works Cited page, followed by a period. For two authors, the format of the author's names will be separated by a comma and the word "and." Only reverse names for the first author. An example of an entry for two authors is as follows: Doe, Jane, and John Smith.
For a source with three authors, list all of the authors. An example of a citation with three authors is as follows: Doe, Jane, John Smith, and Peter Harris.
Choose to list all of the authors if a work has more than three authors or simply list the first author and add "et al" after the first author's name, which means "and others." An example of this is as follows: Doe, Jane, et al.
Complete the reference entry on the Works Cited page. For the MLA style, this includes the title of the book, the city of publication, the publisher and the year published. An example of how this is accomplished for a book with two authors is as follows: Doe, Jane, and John Smith. The Big Book Title. New York: Random House, 2010.