Works Cited - St. John's Episcopal School



Works Cited Page

You will be creating a Works Cited page for your Mission Report/State Report. This packet includes:

• Sample sheets for citing:

- a book (print)

- an encyclopedia article (print)

- the Internet (web)

• “Citation Coupons” for a book, an encyclopedia, and the Internet.

• A grid for you to track the date you accessed web sites.

• A list of online bibliographic citation tools, if you choose to use them.

• A Sample Works Cited list.

Intellectual Property

What an author creates is his/her “intellectual property”. As students and ethical users of information, you must give credit or cite the author or authors of works used for your research. When you properly give credit, the source information is called a citation.

Reasons You Must Cite Your Sources:

• The rights of the author and creator are protected by law.

• If you do not cite your sources, it is considered plagiarism.

• Giving credit shows that you are respectfully borrowing other people’s ideas, not stealing them.

• Citing sources gives additional information to readers who may want to pursue your topic.

• Citing sources gives your teacher/reader a way to check your sources for accuracy.

• Citing sources inspires reader confidence in your writing.

• Citing sources is required by your teacher.

• Learning how to cite works correctly will help you in upper elementary, middle school, high school, college, and in higher education.

St. John’s Episcopal School uses the MLA (Modern Language Association) Style Guide, which has been used in schools for half a century. How citations are prepared depends on the format of the material being cited. There are different formats for books, encyclopedias, the Internet and a variety of other sources.

A Works Cited Page

• 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.

• Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page.

• Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.

• Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations five spaces so that you create a hanging indent.

• Arrange all sources in one list, alphabetically.

• Use italics for titles of books, periodicals and software. Titles of articles are enclosed in quotation marks.

• Use n.p. for no publisher, n.p. for no place of publication and n.d. if the publication date is missing.

• For every entry, you must determine the Medium of Publication. Most entries will likely be listed as Print or Web sources.

• If required by the instructor, or the web site cannot be found without the URL, the web site should be in angle brackets < > after the date of access. Example: . Break URLs only after slashes.

• To cite the date you viewed a website, use the day, month and year format; for example: 16 Jan. 2010. Use abbreviations below:

Jan. - January


Feb. - February


Mar. - March


Apr. - April


May - May


June - June



July – July

Aug. - August


Sep., Sept. – September

Oct. - October


Nov. - November


Dec. - December

The OWL at Purdue

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue is an excellent resource and has exhaustive information on MLA Style in a variety of formats:



Online Tools Citation Tools

There are a number of online tools that put your research information into correct MLA format. I have used NoodleBib at NoodleTools; it is free and easy to use.

Go to the NoodleTools web site, .

In the section called Free Software Tools, choose NoodleBib MLA Starter. Select “Create a Personal ID”. Choose the free MLA Starter Account for grades 1-5. You will choose a personal ID with a user name and password. Once signed in, you need to “Create New List”. Call the list “State Report/Mission Report” for example. When you want to cite a source, use the pull down menu to choose the citation type. Fill in the fields as prompted. When all fields are filled in, click “Create Citation.” You can access your list later by signing in as “Current User”. You can then print the page as a word document. (It’s a good idea to write down your password and user name in a safe place!)

Other electronic citation machines include:

Son of Citation Machine

Easy Bib

BibMe

Knight Cite calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

MLA Citation Wizard (beta version)

Grolier Online

Grolier Online is St. John’s online encyclopedia/ research portal. At the end of each article in Grolier, it shows you exactly how to cite the article in MLA Style.

To Access Grolier Online at School:

go.

user name: cardinal1

password: onsite

To Access Grolier Online from Home:

Go to the SJES website, stjohns-

Go to Academics, Select Library, Select Library Resources, Select Useful Links, Select Grolier.

user name: stjes

password: stjes

Let me know if you need help.

Mrs. Catherine Sjostedt

csjostedt@stjohns-,

949-858-5144 x256

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