How to Create an MLA Works Cited Page (MLA …



Name __________________Folder ______Period ______171450-20574000How to Create an MLA Works Cited Page (MLA Bibliography)What is a Works Cited page?A Works Cited page is a list at the end of your paper of all the research sources you used and cited in your paper (don’t include things that you read but decided not to use). These works could be print or electronic. How Do I Start?: Put the words Works Cited (“Works” with an S at the end, like “works of literature!”) in the center of the top of a new page at the end of your paper, in the same font as your paper (NO bold/underline). If you are asked to do an annotated bibliography, the title will be Annotated Bibliography instead. Make one entry for each source, alphabetically by whatever is first (author or title), following the rules for each source type below. DON’T number them or label by the type of source. It should look like the Sudan example at the bottom of the next page.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BOOK (or a PAMPHLET or BROCHURE):Author’s last name, Author’s first name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publishing Company, Year. Medium. Your choices for “medium” are almost always “Print” or “Web.” If the book has an editor instead of an author, put “ed.” after the name.Calhoun, Yael. Water Pollution. New York: Chelsea House, 2005. Print.BOOK WITH 2 OR MORE AUTHORS:Include all authors. Reverse only the name of the first author, add a comma, and give the other name(s) normally:McLellan, Tom, and Alicia Bragg. Escape From Anxiety and Stress. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. Print.PAGE FROM A WEBSITE (Online MLA help sites may call this a “Web Document”):Author’s last name, Author’s first name. “Page Title.” Title of Website. Organization that created the site, Date Posted. Medium. Date Accessed. <URL>. The MLA Handbook only requires the URL “If needed to find the original source.” Ask your teacher –it will be required by most teachers at Irvington! If there’s no author, like in the example below, leave out the author and start with the “Page Title.” This is the specific page you’re reading from, like “Afghanistan” below. Title of Website is the name of the whole site. You may need to visit the main page of the site to find out the site title. Title of Website is NOT the URL! (www…):“Afghanistan.” The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency, 19 Oct. 2008. Web. 15 Dec. 2015. < a REFERENCE (like The World Book Encyclopedia or The Environmental Encyclopedia):Author’s last name, Author’s first name. “Title of Article.” Title of Reference Book. Edition, if given. Year. Medium. Publication info not needed for well-known encyclopedias. If the article is signed, list the author first, otherwise list the article title. Do NOT cite the editor of the whole encyclopedia. Since articles are arranged alphabetically, you can leave out volume and page numbers.Mohanty, Jitendra M. “Indian Philosophy.” The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. 15th ed. 1987. Print.“Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994. Print.For a PERIODICAL you found in PRINT: A periodical is a source published periodically (at regular periods of time), like a magazine or newspaper. Author’s last name, First name. “Article Title in Quotation Marks.” Periodical Title Italicized Date: Section number (for newspapers: C3, C3+) or page range (for magazines: 18-22). Medium. No period after periodical title. Capitalize correctly, even if the source does not.Here’s one newspaper and one magazine:Wildermuth, John. “Polls Agree on Debate But Split on Election.” San Francisco Chronicle 5 Oct. 2004: A1. Print.Levy, Steven. “Great Minds, Great Ideas.” Newsweek 27 May 2002: 15-17. Print.ONLINE PERIODICAL (A magazine or newspaper you found on the Web):Levy, Steven. “Great Minds, Great Ideas.” Newsweek 27 May 2002. Web. 15 Sept. 2015 < a PERIODICAL FROM A DATABASE (like ProQuest or the Alameda County Public Library databases at ):Wildermuth, John. “Polls Agree on Debate But Split on Election.” San Francisco Chronicle 5 Oct. 2004: A1. Lexis Nexis. Web. 12 Oct. 2015.For a SCHOLARLY (ACADEMIC) JOURNAL:This is a scholarly journal from a database, JSTOR. If from the Web directly, leave out the database name. Put “n. pag.” instead of page #s if you don’t have ‘em. Notice the VOLUME NUMBER & ISSUE NUMBER 32. 1, & the date (in parentheses):Tolson, Nancy. “Making Books Available.” African American Review 32. 1 (1998): 9-16. JSTOR. Web. 12 Oct. 2015.A PERSONAL INTERVIEW:Start with the name of the person you interviewed. May be a “Personal interview,” “Telephone interview,” or “Email interview.”Froodle, Bob. Personal interview. 13 Oct. 2015.Helpful Tips!Put entries in ALPHABETICAL ORDER by the author’s last name, or the title if there’s no author. Don’t number or label them or use bullets. Don’t count articles (a, an, the) when alphabetizing things with no author. Can you figure out why? If no author is given (common with websites), just leave it out and go on, but if no date is given, put “n.d.” as a placeholder. “N.p.” is the abbreviation for no publisher, but you should not be using this one, because reliable sources have a publisher! Easy Bib and other citation generators will have trouble finding it, but you will be able to look at the site and figure out what organization put that information on the Web.For books, find the information you need on the title page or the copyright page (other side of the title page). If there is more than one date, use the most recent. If there is more than one city of publication, use the first.Works that stand on their own, like books or encyclopedias, are italicized. Works published as a part of another work, like an article (part of a magazine or encyclopedia), poem (part of a book of poems) or a song (part of an album) are in “quotation marks.” Never use “quotes” AND italics!INDENT the second line of every entry and any lines after that. This is called a “hanging” indent. Double-space. Use Times New Roman, 12 point font for the whole page, even the title.Put a period at the end of every entry, even websites.Don’t underline website URLs or make them blue (no hyperlinks). Put the URL in angle brackets instead <>. If Word makes it blue, just hit “undo” (Ctrl Z).Here’s a sample Works Cited about the country of Sudan. It’s small here, but yours has to be 12 point font, double spaced, and on a separate page!Works CitedAardema, Verna. What's So Funny, Ketu? : A Nuer Tale. New York: Dial Press, 1982. Print.Hoge, Warren. “Annan Urges Security Council to Act on Growing Violence in Sudan.” New York Times 4 Nov. 2004. Web. 15 Sept. 2015 < international/africa/04nations.html>. “Sudan.” African Studies Center. University of Pennsylvania, 3 July 2007. Web. 15 Sept. 2015 <;.“Sudan.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 2004 ed. Print. ................
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