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Formatting and Style Guide - Works Cited Page: Basic Format
by
Dave Neyhart and Erin E. Karper. Revision by Karl Stolley
www.owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
01.
MLA - General Format
02.
MLA - In-Text Citations: The Basics
03.
MLA - In-Text Citations: Author-Page Style
04.
MLA - Formatting Quotations
05.
MLA - Footnotes and Endnotes
06.
MLA - Works Cited Page: Basic Format
07.
MLA - Works Cited Page: Books
08.
MLA - Works Cited: Periodicals
09.
MLA - Works Cited: Electronic Sources
10.
MLA - Works Cited: Other Non-Print Sources
11.
MLA - Additional Resources
Works Cited Page: Basic Format
According to
MLA style, you must have a Works Cited page at the end of your
research paper. Works Cited page preparation and formatting is
covered in chapter 5 of the MLA Handbook, and chapter 6 of the MLA
Style Manual. All entries in the Works Cited page must correspond to
the works cited in your main text.
Basic Rules
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Begin your
Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research
paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name,
page number header as the rest of your paper.
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Label the
page Works Cited (do not underline the words Works Cited or put
them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the
top of the page.
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Double
space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.
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List page
numbers of sources efficiently, when needed. If you refer to a
journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the
page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50.
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If you're
citing an article or a publication that was originally issued in
print form but that you retrieved from an online database, you
should provide enough information so that the reader can locate
the article either in its original print form or retrieve it
from the online database (if they have access).
Capitalization and Punctuation
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Capitalize
each word in the titles of articles, books, etc, but do not
capitalize articles, short prepositions, or conjunctions unless
one is the first word of the title or subtitle: Gone with the
Wind, The Art of War, There Is Nothing Left to Lose
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Use
italics or underlining for titles of larger works (books,
magazines) and quotation marks for titles of shorter works
(poems, articles)
Listing Author Names
Entries are listed by author name (or, for entire edited
collections, editor names). Author names are written last name
first; middle names or middle initials follow the first name:
Burke, Kenneth
Levy, David M.
Wallace, David Foster
Do not list
titles (Dr., Sir, Saint, etc.) or degrees (PhD, MA, DDS, etc.) with
names. A book listing an author named "John Bigbrain, PhD" appears
simply as "Bigbrain, John"; do, however, include suffixes like "Jr."
or "II." Putting it all together, a work by Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. would be cited as "King, Martin Luther, Jr.," with the suffix
following the first or middle name and a comma. For additional
information on handling names, consult section 3.8 of The MLA
Handbook and sections 6.6.1 and 3.6 of the MLA Style Manual.
More than One Work by an Author
If you have cited more than one work by a particular author, order
the entries alphabetically by title, and use three hyphens in place
of the author's name for every entry after the first:
Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives.
---. A Grammar of Motives.
When an author or collection editor appears both as the sole author
of a text and as the first author of a group, list solo-author
entries first:
Heller, Steven, ed. The Education of an E-Designer.
Heller, Steven and Karen Pomeroy. Design Literacy:
Understanding
Graphic Design.
Work with No Known Author
Alphabetize works with no known author by their title; use a
shortened version of the title in the parenthetical citations in
your paper. In this case, Boring Postcards USA has no known author:
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulations.
Boring Postcards USA.
Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives.
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