Which of the following book references best matches the Modern Language…

Concept

MLA works-cited entries treat the author, title, and publication details as separate elements. Their punctuation makes those element boundaries visible.

For the edition-era book pattern tested here, the order is Author. Title. Place: Publisher, Year; the book title is italicized.

Application

1. Read the author element: “Hall, Donald.” closes the inverted author name with a period.

2. Read the title element: Fundamentals of Electronics. closes the book title with a period.

3. Read the publication block: “New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India, 2005” uses a colon between place and publisher and a comma before the year.

Contrast

• “Fundamentals of Electronics, New Delhi” uses a comma where the title element should close.

• “Hall, Donald,” uses a comma where the author element should close.

• “New Delhi–Prentice Hall of India” uses an en dash instead of the place–publisher separator in this pattern.

Cross-check

The official UGC NET key for the matching June 2013 Paper I item selects the same punctuation pattern. Full older MLA entries commonly added the publication medium, but the stem here asks specifically about the author–title–publication punctuation sequence.

Result

Therefore, the MLA-formatted reference among the given choices is: Hall, Donald. Fundamentals of Electronics. New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India, 2005.